DigitalOcean Premium Intel (2 GB) vs. DigitalOcean Premium AMD (2 GB)
Last updated on October 1, 2026
Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I spun up fresh instances from DigitalOcean and ran some benchmarks. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Let's get into the numbers.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:08:17 GMT
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:11:18 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
7.0.0-31-generic
7.0.0-31-generic
MySQL Version
8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
Redis Version
8.0.5
8.0.5
Location
New York, NY
New York, NY
Monthly Price
$16.00
$14.00
RAM (GB)
2
2
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
70
50
Storage Type
NVMe
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
2
2
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category Winner
CPU (events/sec) DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Memory (read MiB/s) DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Disk I/O (MiB/s) DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) MySQL (read/write tps) DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Redis (GET/sec) DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Value (CPU events per $/mo) DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) takes 4 of 6 categories.
CPU
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vendor
GenuineIntel
AuthenticAMD
Model Name
DO-Premium-Intel
DO-Premium-AMD
Clock Speed (MHz)
1,995.31
1,996.25
CPU Cache Size (KB)
4,096.00
512.00
BogoMips
3,990.62
3,992.49
Events per Second
1,383.84
708.66
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.5
0.65
Average Latency (ms)
0.72
1.41
Maximum Latency (ms)
26.1
10.44
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.35
2.61
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second
4,333,625.92
3,392,467.16
Mebibytes per second
4,232.06
3,312.96
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.09
3.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second
4,219,640.73
5,222,214.40
Mebibytes per second
4,120.74
5,099.82
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.16
1.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Reads per Second
2,349.38
1,898.43
Writes per Second
1,566.26
1,265.62
Fsyncs per Second
5,019.91
4,052.28
Read Mebibytes per Second
36.71
29.66
Written Mebibytes per Second
24.47
19.78
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.11
0.14
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.32
22.66
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.41
0.49
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,294.95
1,638.91
Average Latency (ms)
2,302.17
1,646.82
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,308.09
1,653.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,320.55
1,648.20
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
8,290.00
7,225.00
Queries per second
82,900.00
72,250.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.02
1.16
Average Latency (ms)
1.2
1.38
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.93
5.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.82
1.82
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
4,835.00
4,858.00
Queries per second
48,350.00
48,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.03
1.06
Average Latency (ms)
2.06
2.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
28.71
18.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.86
2.97
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
2,440.00
2,569.00
Queries per second
24,400.00
25,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.47
2.53
Average Latency (ms)
4.09
3.89
Maximum Latency (ms)
34.94
31.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5.77
5.57
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
8,740.00
7,028.00
Queries per second
87,400.00
70,280.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.61
0.73
Average Latency (ms)
1.14
1.42
Maximum Latency (ms)
31.28
14.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.86
2.48
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,201,092.00
1,346,717.00
Queries per second
12,010,920.00
13,467,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
416.59
407.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
233,729.00
163,275.00
Queries per second
2,337,290.00
1,632,750.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.04
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.09
1
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.06
0.09
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
5,487.00
5,941.00
Queries per second
54,870.00
59,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.53
0.51
Average Latency (ms)
1.82
1.68
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.49
4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.76
2.22
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
6,975.00
7,397.00
Queries per second
69,750.00
73,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.49
0.39
Average Latency (ms)
1.43
1.35
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.05
5.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.11
1.79
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
8,563.00
7,797.00
Queries per second
85,630.00
77,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.61
0.76
Average Latency (ms)
1.17
1.28
Maximum Latency (ms)
31.11
11.43
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.86
2.03
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
7,986.00
7,389.00
Queries per second
79,860.00
73,890.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.64
0.72
Average Latency (ms)
1.25
1.35
Maximum Latency (ms)
33.18
15.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.96
2.22
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
90,875.00
53,947.00
Queries per second
908,750.00
539,470.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.11
0.18
Maximum Latency (ms)
22.2
17.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.19
1.12
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
65,876.16
69,300.07
PING_MBULK per Second
63,856.96
69,637.88
SET per Second
62,972.29
69,156.30
GET per Second
57,339.45
70,077.09
INCR per Second
61,538.46
64,557.78
LPUSH per Second
66,889.63
66,889.63
RPUSH per Second
64,892.93
68,259.38
LPOP per Second
65,359.48
63,938.62
RPOP per Second
63,572.79
66,844.91
SADD per Second
63,613.23
67,430.88
HSET per Second
66,489.37
70,028.02
SPOP per Second
54,112.55
67,430.88
ZADD per Second
65,487.89
64,184.86
ZPOPMIN per Second
64,557.78
59,737.16
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
38,895.37
38,417.21
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
18,539.12
18,416.21
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
12,931.59
12,968.49
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
11,428.57
10,951.70
MSET (10 keys) per Second
58,105.75
59,630.29
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE 0.48 0.46 PING_MBULK 0.49 0.45 SET 0.51 0.46 GET 0.55 0.45 INCR 0.51 0.49 LPUSH 0.48 0.48 RPUSH 0.49 0.47 LPOP 0.49 0.51 RPOP 0.50 0.48 SADD 0.50 0.47 HSET 0.48 0.46 SPOP 0.59 0.47 ZADD 0.49 0.50 ZPOPMIN 0.49 0.53 LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) 0.85 0.91 LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) 1.72 1.80 LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) 2.59 2.63 LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) 2.86 3.01 MSET (10 keys) 0.69 0.68
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The DigitalOcean Premium Intel instance wins overall, driven by superior Redis performance benchmarks. The Intel instance achieved a higher requests per second (rps) and lower latency across various Redis operations compared to the AMD instance, exemplified by the GET operation with 67114.09 rps and an average latency of 0.474 ms versus the AMD's 65832.78 rps and 0.479 ms. For use-case considerations, the Intel instance is better suited for CPU-heavy and memory-intensive tasks due to its superior benchmarks.
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