DigitalOcean Premium AMD (1 GB) vs. UpCloud Balanced (2 GB)
Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and UpCloud and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Sun, 10 May 2026 21:00:52 GMT
Wed, 13 May 2026 07:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
6.8.0-71-generic
6.8.0-111-generic
MySQL Version
8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
Redis Version
7.0.15
7.0.15
Location
New York, NY
New York, NY
Monthly Price
$7.00
€13.00
RAM (GB)
1
2
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
25
50
Storage Type
NVMe
SSD
Transfer (TB)
1
2
CPU
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
AuthenticAMD
Model Name
DO-Premium-AMD
AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)
1,996.25
3,295.48
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
512.00
BogoMips
3,992.49
6,590.95
Events per Second
737.58
5,025.21
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.6
0.18
Average Latency (ms)
1.35
0.2
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.17
5.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.71
0.22
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Operations per second
4,241,036.38
5,932,400.60
Mebibytes per second
4,141.64
5,793.36
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.23
2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Operations per second
4,880,937.38
6,706,599.41
Mebibytes per second
4,766.54
6,549.41
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.84
1.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Reads per Second
1,551.42
3,214.64
Writes per Second
1,034.28
2,143.03
Fsyncs per Second
3,313.60
6,864.71
Read Mebibytes per Second
24.24
50.23
Written Mebibytes per Second
16.16
33.48
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.17
0.08
Maximum Latency (ms)
12.81
20.14
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.58
0.31
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,833.32
1,349.13
Average Latency (ms)
1,845.81
1,353.60
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,856.79
1,361.99
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,869.60
1,352.03
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
5,758.00
19,090.00
Queries per second
57,580.00
190,900.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.43
0.31
Average Latency (ms)
1.73
0.52
Maximum Latency (ms)
10.42
5.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.18
0.64
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,378.00
3,974.00
Queries per second
33,780.00
39,740.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.61
0.87
Average Latency (ms)
2.96
2.51
Maximum Latency (ms)
13.66
38.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.41
5
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,651.00
2,830.00
Queries per second
16,510.00
28,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.4
1.29
Average Latency (ms)
6.05
3.53
Maximum Latency (ms)
26.79
56.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
8.9
6.32
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
4,234.00
4,647.00
Queries per second
42,340.00
46,470.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.98
0.61
Average Latency (ms)
2.36
2.15
Maximum Latency (ms)
15.94
28.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.33
4.41
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,142,842.00
2,249,592.00
Queries per second
11,428,420.00
22,495,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
473.39
207.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
128,987.00
645,161.00
Queries per second
1,289,870.00
6,451,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.06
0.01
Average Latency (ms)
0.08
0.02
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.88
2.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.11
0.02
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
6,220.00
8,546.00
Queries per second
62,200.00
85,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.57
0.13
Average Latency (ms)
1.61
1.17
Maximum Latency (ms)
8.7
172.57
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.3
1.58
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
6,514.00
11,562.00
Queries per second
65,140.00
115,620.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.59
0.22
Average Latency (ms)
1.53
0.86
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.42
4.07
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.18
1.27
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
5,085.00
4,711.00
Queries per second
50,850.00
47,110.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.95
0.73
Average Latency (ms)
1.97
2.12
Maximum Latency (ms)
16.24
30.41
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.19
3.96
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
5,114.00
5,393.00
Queries per second
51,140.00
53,930.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.12
0.48
Average Latency (ms)
1.95
1.85
Maximum Latency (ms)
15.5
39
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.13
3.43
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
38,488.00
101,195.00
Queries per second
384,880.00
1,011,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.06
0.01
Average Latency (ms)
0.26
0.1
Maximum Latency (ms)
15.02
39.3
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.64
0.17
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
32,372.94
130,208.34
PING_MBULK per Second
35,087.72
130,208.34
SET per Second
36,363.64
130,890.05
GET per Second
36,088.05
129,198.97
INCR per Second
36,778.23
128,534.70
LPUSH per Second
36,101.08
128,040.97
RPUSH per Second
36,166.36
126,582.27
LPOP per Second
36,549.71
124,688.28
RPOP per Second
37,174.72
127,226.46
SADD per Second
37,105.75
129,198.97
HSET per Second
33,909.80
133,511.34
SPOP per Second
35,842.29
139,275.77
ZADD per Second
34,734.29
130,039.02
ZPOPMIN per Second
36,324.01
129,701.68
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
23,923.45
55,524.71
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
13,774.10
28,785.26
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
8,998.47
18,942.98
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
7,534.66
17,038.68
MSET (10 keys) per Second
33,322.23
108,225.10
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
PING_INLINE
1.04
0.25
PING_MBULK
0.96
0.25
SET
0.94
0.26
GET
0.94
0.26
INCR
0.93
0.26
LPUSH
0.95
0.26
RPUSH
0.94
0.27
LPOP
0.94
0.27
RPOP
0.92
0.27
SADD
0.92
0.26
HSET
1.00
0.26
SPOP
0.94
0.24
ZADD
0.98
0.26
ZPOPMIN
0.93
0.26
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.45
0.66
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
2.61
1.27
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
3.94
1.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
4.63
2.16
MSET (10 keys)
1.05
0.34
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
Both VPS instances show excellent performance for their respective configurations, but the DigitalOcean Premium AMD (1 GB) instance excels in memory operations, redis commands, and cpu benchmarks with strong latency and throughput results, making it ideal for memory-intensive applications and applications requiring high throughput for Redis and CPU-bound workloads. The UpCloud Balanced (2 GB) instance, however, outperforms in terms of raw computational power with much higher events per second and significantly better performance in MySQL benchmarks, rendering it the better choice for applications that demand high CPU performance, such as complex computations and large database transactions. Both are suitable for different contexts: DigitalOcean for memory and Redis-heavy applications, and UpCloud for CPU-intensive and database-driven workloads.
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