DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB) vs. DigitalOcean Premium AMD (1 GB)
Last updated on July 8, 2026
Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I've got brand new instances from DigitalOcean to run some benchmarks on. All instances were running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Without further ado, here's the results.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:28:23 GMT
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:37:21 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
7.0.0-27-generic
7.0.0-27-generic
MySQL Version
8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
Redis Version
8.0.5
8.0.5
Location
New York, NY
New York, NY
Monthly Price
$6.00
$7.00
RAM (GB)
1
1
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
25
25
Storage Type
SSD
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
1
1
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category Winner
CPU (events/sec) DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Memory (read MiB/s) DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Disk I/O (MiB/s) DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) MySQL (read/write tps) DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Redis (GET/sec) DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Value (CPU events per $/mo) DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) takes 6 of 6 categories.
CPU
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vendor
GenuineIntel
AuthenticAMD
Model Name
DO-Regular
DO-Premium-AMD
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,294.60
1,996.25
CPU Cache Size (KB)
4,096.00
512.00
BogoMips
4,589.20
3,992.49
Events per Second
843.27
1,270.29
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.05
0.66
Average Latency (ms)
1.18
0.79
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.34
16.91
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.47
0.87
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Operations per second
3,368,867.41
4,259,692.62
Mebibytes per second
3,289.91
4,159.86
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.83
2.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Operations per second
3,248,162.62
4,578,740.48
Mebibytes per second
3,172.03
4,471.43
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.26
1.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Reads per Second
545.13
1,043.48
Writes per Second
363.42
695.66
Fsyncs per Second
1,169.66
2,238.59
Read Mebibytes per Second
8.52
16.30
Written Mebibytes per Second
5.68
10.87
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.48
0.25
Maximum Latency (ms)
78.76
26.9
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.79
0.92
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,099.34
1,955.91
Average Latency (ms)
2,145.49
1,970.75
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,160.95
1,977.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,159.29
1,973.38
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
5,001.00
6,004.00
Queries per second
50,010.00
60,040.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.21
1.22
Average Latency (ms)
2
1.66
Maximum Latency (ms)
17.66
352.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.66
1.96
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
738.00
2,993.00
Queries per second
7,380.00
29,930.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
4.83
1.31
Average Latency (ms)
13.55
3.34
Maximum Latency (ms)
58.05
34.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
25.28
6.91
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
613.00
1,677.00
Queries per second
6,130.00
16,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
7.34
3.14
Average Latency (ms)
16.32
5.96
Maximum Latency (ms)
67.72
81.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
30.81
10.84
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,035.00
6,786.00
Queries per second
10,350.00
67,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.79
0.79
Average Latency (ms)
9.65
1.47
Maximum Latency (ms)
48.93
23.78
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
16.71
2.57
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
734,741.00
931,337.00
Queries per second
7,347,410.00
9,313,370.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
888.59
1149.14
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
128,886.00
137,388.00
Queries per second
1,288,860.00
1,373,880.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.08
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.52
1.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.12
0.11
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,691.00
4,725.00
Queries per second
26,910.00
47,250.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.22
0.78
Average Latency (ms)
3.71
2.11
Maximum Latency (ms)
15.34
4.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5.28
3.02
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
3,433.00
6,047.00
Queries per second
34,330.00
60,470.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.79
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
2.91
1.65
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.06
52.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5
2.3
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,000.00
2,905.00
Queries per second
10,000.00
29,050.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.62
0.92
Average Latency (ms)
9.99
3.44
Maximum Latency (ms)
38.48
66.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
18.28
10.09
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
835.00
3,682.00
Queries per second
8,350.00
36,820.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.33
0.86
Average Latency (ms)
11.98
2.71
Maximum Latency (ms)
340.24
40.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
24.38
7.7
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
3,488.00
38,236.00
Queries per second
34,880.00
382,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
2.87
0.26
Maximum Latency (ms)
57.43
20.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
14.73
1.61
Redis
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
32,051.28
56,850.48
PING_MBULK per Second
29,629.63
61,162.08
SET per Second
30,571.69
57,570.52
GET per Second
26,511.13
57,636.89
INCR per Second
36,469.73
59,772.86
LPUSH per Second
26,709.40
57,142.86
RPUSH per Second
23,741.69
56,369.79
LPOP per Second
29,700.03
59,488.40
RPOP per Second
28,985.51
59,488.40
SADD per Second
29,700.03
58,962.27
HSET per Second
29,770.77
44,984.25
SPOP per Second
28,473.80
57,077.62
ZADD per Second
29,806.26
58,548.01
ZPOPMIN per Second
31,104.20
60,240.96
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
17,519.27
30,854.68
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
7,340.53
14,740.57
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
5,113.52
10,568.59
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
4,561.42
8,655.01
MSET (10 keys) per Second
30,562.35
49,043.65
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
PING_INLINE 0.97 0.56 PING_MBULK 1.03 0.51 SET 1.03 0.56 GET 1.18 0.55 INCR 0.85 0.53 LPUSH 1.18 0.56 RPUSH 1.31 0.57 LPOP 1.05 0.54 RPOP 1.08 0.54 SADD 1.04 0.54 HSET 1.05 0.79 SPOP 1.08 0.55 ZADD 1.05 0.55 ZPOPMIN 0.99 0.52 LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) 1.84 1.11 LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) 4.07 2.31 LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) 5.66 3.10 LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) 6.31 3.65 MSET (10 keys) 1.25 0.80
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The DigitalOcean Premium AMD (1 GB) instance outperforms the Regular (1 GB) in most benchmarks, particularly in Redis operations where it achieves higher requests per second (RPS) and significantly lower latencies, e.g., PING_INLINE RPS of 56850.48 vs 32051.28 and average latency of 0.557ms vs 0.969ms. In terms of CPU performance, the Premium AMD instance also shows better event handling with 1270.29 events per second compared to 843.27. For memory operations and file I/O, the Premium instance maintains high throughput and low latencies. Therefore, for CPU-intensive and memory-heavy workloads, the Premium AMD instance provides superior performance at a slightly higher cost.
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