DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB) vs. DigitalOcean Premium AMD (2 GB)
Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I spun up fresh instances from DigitalOcean and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Enough talk. Here's the data.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:28:23 GMT
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:38:52 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
$14.00
RAM (GB)
1
2
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
25
50
Storage Type
SSD
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
1
2
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category
Winner
CPU (events/sec)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (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 – Regular (1 GB)
Evenly matched across 6 categories.
CPU
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 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
730.16
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.05
0.64
Average Latency (ms)
1.18
1.37
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.34
18.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.47
2.52
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second
3,368,867.41
3,123,620.54
Mebibytes per second
3,289.91
3,050.41
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.83
3.07
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second
3,248,162.62
5,224,478.37
Mebibytes per second
3,172.03
5,102.03
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.26
3.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Reads per Second
545.13
2,012.74
Writes per Second
363.42
1,341.83
Fsyncs per Second
1,169.66
4,295.05
Read Mebibytes per Second
8.52
31.45
Written Mebibytes per Second
5.68
20.97
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.48
0.13
Maximum Latency (ms)
78.76
16.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.79
0.5
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,099.34
1,660.48
Average Latency (ms)
2,145.49
1,679.64
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,160.95
1,687.90
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,159.29
1,678.14
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
5,001.00
7,656.00
Queries per second
50,010.00
76,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.21
1.17
Average Latency (ms)
2
1.3
Maximum Latency (ms)
17.66
2.99
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.66
1.58
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
738.00
4,129.00
Queries per second
7,380.00
41,290.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
4.83
1.14
Average Latency (ms)
13.55
2.42
Maximum Latency (ms)
58.05
19.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
25.28
3.75
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
613.00
2,409.00
Queries per second
6,130.00
24,090.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
7.34
2.42
Average Latency (ms)
16.32
4.15
Maximum Latency (ms)
67.72
75.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
30.81
6.55
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,035.00
6,034.00
Queries per second
10,350.00
60,340.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.79
0.73
Average Latency (ms)
9.65
1.66
Maximum Latency (ms)
48.93
18.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
16.71
3.02
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
734,741.00
1,346,717.00
Queries per second
7,347,410.00
13,467,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
888.59
407.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
128,886.00
164,009.00
Queries per second
1,288,860.00
1,640,090.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.08
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.52
1.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.12
0.09
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
2,691.00
5,968.00
Queries per second
26,910.00
59,680.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.22
0.61
Average Latency (ms)
3.71
1.67
Maximum Latency (ms)
15.34
3.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5.28
2.22
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,433.00
7,381.00
Queries per second
34,330.00
73,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.79
0.52
Average Latency (ms)
2.91
1.35
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.06
2.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5
1.79
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,000.00
6,407.00
Queries per second
10,000.00
64,070.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.62
0.77
Average Latency (ms)
9.99
1.56
Maximum Latency (ms)
38.48
18.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
18.28
2.66
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
835.00
6,751.00
Queries per second
8,350.00
67,510.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.33
0.74
Average Latency (ms)
11.98
1.48
Maximum Latency (ms)
340.24
15.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
24.38
2.48
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,488.00
62,091.00
Queries per second
34,880.00
620,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
2.87
0.16
Maximum Latency (ms)
57.43
26.3
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
14.73
1.08
Redis
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
32,051.28
71,225.07
PING_MBULK per Second
29,629.63
71,225.07
SET per Second
30,571.69
68,119.89
GET per Second
26,511.13
66,401.06
INCR per Second
36,469.73
70,077.09
LPUSH per Second
26,709.40
70,422.54
RPUSH per Second
23,741.69
68,965.52
LPOP per Second
29,700.03
68,259.38
RPOP per Second
28,985.51
66,445.18
SADD per Second
29,700.03
69,492.70
HSET per Second
29,770.77
66,445.18
SPOP per Second
28,473.80
69,930.07
ZADD per Second
29,806.26
71,428.57
ZPOPMIN per Second
31,104.20
71,174.38
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
17,519.27
38,819.88
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
7,340.53
18,768.77
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
5,113.52
12,822.16
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
4,561.42
10,741.14
MSET (10 keys) per Second
30,562.35
61,387.36
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.97
0.45
PING_MBULK
1.03
0.44
SET
1.03
0.47
GET
1.18
0.48
INCR
0.85
0.45
LPUSH
1.18
0.46
RPUSH
1.31
0.46
LPOP
1.05
0.47
RPOP
1.08
0.49
SADD
1.04
0.46
HSET
1.05
0.49
SPOP
1.08
0.45
ZADD
1.05
0.45
ZPOPMIN
0.99
0.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.84
0.91
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
4.07
1.81
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
5.66
2.72
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
6.31
3.13
MSET (10 keys)
1.25
0.65
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The DigitalOcean Premium AMD (2 GB) instance outperforms the Regular (1 GB) instance across key benchmarks, with significantly higher RPS (requests per second) rates in Redis operations like PING_INLINE (71,225 vs. 32,051) and SET (68,120 vs. 30,572), indicating superior performance for CPU-intensive tasks. The Premium instance also excels in MySQL bulk insert throughput, handling 134,435 TPS compared to the Regular's 71,021 TPS. For users needing robust computational power and higher throughput, especially for database-heavy applications, the Premium AMD instance is the clear winner.
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