Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and did some benchmarking. 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 (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Last Benchmarked
Sun, 31 May 2026 11:00:52 GMT
Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
6.8.0-71-generic
6.8.0-71-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
$14.00
$64.00
RAM (GB)
2
8
CPU Cores
1
4
Storage (TB)
50
240
Storage Type
NVMe
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
2
6
CPU
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
GenuineIntel
Model Name
DO-Premium-AMD
DO-Premium-Intel
Clock Speed (MHz)
1,996.25
1,995.31
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
4,096.00
BogoMips
3,992.50
3,990.61
Events per Second
765.55
2,100.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.6
0.46
Average Latency (ms)
1.3
0.48
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.73
0.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.61
0.49
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second
2,419,079.35
4,031,036.30
Mebibytes per second
2,362.38
3,936.56
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.57
0.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second
4,589,052.29
4,327,248.72
Mebibytes per second
4,481.50
4,225.83
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.42
0.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Reads per Second
1,810.43
1,848.36
Writes per Second
1,206.96
1,232.24
Fsyncs per Second
3,873.45
3,943.27
Read Mebibytes per Second
28.29
28.88
Written Mebibytes per Second
18.86
19.25
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.14
0.14
Maximum Latency (ms)
8.03
32.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.53
0.83
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,793.49
496.91
Average Latency (ms)
1,809.27
678.09
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,821.41
755.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,836.24
759.88
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
6,304.00
5,172.00
Queries per second
63,040.00
51,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.4
1.28
Average Latency (ms)
1.58
1.93
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.12
8.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.89
2.61
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
3,856.00
2,301.00
Queries per second
38,560.00
23,010.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.5
1.35
Average Latency (ms)
2.59
4.34
Maximum Latency (ms)
10.82
12.64
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.89
7.3
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
1,905.00
1,495.00
Queries per second
19,050.00
14,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.43
2.89
Average Latency (ms)
5.25
6.68
Maximum Latency (ms)
14.57
19.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
7.17
10.46
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
6,167.00
3,010.00
Queries per second
61,670.00
30,100.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.84
1.11
Average Latency (ms)
1.62
3.32
Maximum Latency (ms)
13.98
14.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.57
6.09
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
1,171,967.00
1,201,092.00
Queries per second
11,719,670.00
12,010,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
467.34
566.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
138,173.00
157,927.00
Queries per second
1,381,730.00
1,579,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.06
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.07
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.23
2.99
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.1
0.09
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
6,788.00
5,434.00
Queries per second
67,880.00
54,340.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.4
0.45
Average Latency (ms)
1.47
1.84
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.49
14.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.96
2.71
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
6,804.00
6,582.00
Queries per second
68,040.00
65,820.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.38
0.57
Average Latency (ms)
1.47
1.52
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.19
5.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.93
2.66
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
5,044.00
3,033.00
Queries per second
50,440.00
30,330.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.89
1
Average Latency (ms)
1.98
3.29
Maximum Latency (ms)
27.43
67.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.43
5.99
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
5,825.00
3,268.00
Queries per second
58,250.00
32,680.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.87
1.03
Average Latency (ms)
1.72
3.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
10.75
11.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.66
5.57
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
48,264.00
24,924.00
Queries per second
482,640.00
249,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.06
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.21
0.4
Maximum Latency (ms)
18.26
26.64
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.37
2.81
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second
37,850.11
93,545.37
PING_MBULK per Second
38,971.16
87,796.30
SET per Second
37,271.71
93,457.94
GET per Second
37,807.18
94,250.71
INCR per Second
38,729.67
85,106.38
LPUSH per Second
35,373.19
95,057.03
RPUSH per Second
38,669.76
86,505.19
LPOP per Second
38,834.95
89,285.71
RPOP per Second
39,651.07
100,100.10
SADD per Second
36,523.01
90,661.83
HSET per Second
37,064.49
90,415.91
SPOP per Second
39,619.65
96,432.02
ZADD per Second
39,123.63
97,751.71
ZPOPMIN per Second
38,153.38
97,751.71
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
26,253.61
58,997.05
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
14,598.54
26,191.72
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
10,203.04
15,961.69
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
8,869.97
14,390.56
MSET (10 keys) per Second
35,625.22
73,152.89
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE
0.90
0.28
PING_MBULK
0.87
0.31
SET
0.92
0.31
GET
0.90
0.28
INCR
0.88
0.31
LPUSH
0.96
0.29
RPUSH
0.89
0.32
LPOP
0.89
0.32
RPOP
0.87
0.27
SADD
0.93
0.32
HSET
0.92
0.29
SPOP
0.86
0.30
ZADD
0.88
0.31
ZPOPMIN
0.89
0.28
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.34
0.46
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
2.48
1.05
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
3.51
2.04
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
4.03
2.12
MSET (10 keys)
0.99
0.49
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The DigitalOcean Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) instance shows superior performance in most benchmarks compared to the Premium AMD (2 GB) instance, particularly in CPU-bound tasks and I/O operations, with higher RPS rates and lower latency across Redis benchmarks, CPU events per second, file I/O operations, and memory operations. The Intel variant's multi-core advantage and better thread fairness make it ideal for CPU-intensive workloads and applications requiring high concurrency and low-latency responses, while the AMD instance, despite its strong single-core performance, is better suited for less demanding tasks where cost and simplicity are prioritized over raw performance.
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