New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Without further ado, here's the results.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Last Benchmarked
Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:00:52 GMT
Sun, 31 May 2026 20:00:52 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
$48.00
$56.00
RAM (GB)
8
8
CPU Cores
4
4
Storage (TB)
160
160
Storage Type
SSD
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
5
5
CPU
DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vendor
GenuineIntel
AuthenticAMD
Model Name
DO-Regular
DO-Premium-AMD
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,494.13
1,996.25
CPU Cache Size (KB)
4,096.00
512.00
BogoMips
4,988.26
3,992.50
Events per Second
849.54
1,535.42
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.91
0.59
Average Latency (ms)
1.18
0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.42
0.89
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.42
0.69
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second
3,950,075.58
4,867,578.39
Mebibytes per second
3,857.50
4,753.49
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.35
0.19
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second
3,923,868.51
4,347,879.44
Mebibytes per second
3,831.90
4,245.98
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.33
0.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Reads per Second
3,587.28
2,384.51
Writes per Second
2,391.52
1,589.67
Fsyncs per Second
7,652.96
5,095.64
Read Mebibytes per Second
56.05
37.26
Written Mebibytes per Second
37.37
24.84
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.07
0.11
Maximum Latency (ms)
9.81
9.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.28
0.58
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)
699.95
325.10
Average Latency (ms)
814.66
435.66
Maximum Latency (ms)
911.13
487.90
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
909.80
484.44
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
3,599.00
5,392.00
Queries per second
35,990.00
53,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.41
1.37
Average Latency (ms)
2.77
1.85
Maximum Latency (ms)
75.96
3
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.96
2.35
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
2,588.00
3,296.00
Queries per second
25,880.00
32,960.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.37
1.47
Average Latency (ms)
3.86
3.03
Maximum Latency (ms)
24.15
19.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
7.98
4.41
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
1,484.00
1,930.00
Queries per second
14,840.00
19,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.49
3.41
Average Latency (ms)
6.73
5.18
Maximum Latency (ms)
84.28
26.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
11.65
6.55
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
2,648.00
4,756.00
Queries per second
26,480.00
47,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.93
1.08
Average Latency (ms)
3.77
2.1
Maximum Latency (ms)
54.12
40.66
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
8.43
3.25
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
1,055,467.00
1,434,092.00
Queries per second
10,554,670.00
14,340,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
488.93
418.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
109,652.00
125,686.00
Queries per second
1,096,520.00
1,256,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.09
0.08
Maximum Latency (ms)
13.86
0.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.13
0.11
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
2,831.00
7,055.00
Queries per second
28,310.00
70,550.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.82
0.33
Average Latency (ms)
3.53
1.42
Maximum Latency (ms)
41.39
7.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
8.43
2.07
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
3,881.00
6,592.00
Queries per second
38,810.00
65,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.62
0.43
Average Latency (ms)
2.57
1.52
Maximum Latency (ms)
26.19
3.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.74
2.03
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
4,006.00
5,138.00
Queries per second
40,060.00
51,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.64
1.07
Average Latency (ms)
2.49
1.94
Maximum Latency (ms)
14.18
39.78
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.91
2.81
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
3,594.00
4,781.00
Queries per second
35,940.00
47,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.73
1.13
Average Latency (ms)
2.78
2.09
Maximum Latency (ms)
28.54
19.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5.77
3.07
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
16,967.00
41,513.00
Queries per second
169,670.00
415,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.59
0.24
Maximum Latency (ms)
19.13
11.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.91
1.67
Redis
DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second
55,991.04
62,073.25
PING_MBULK per Second
53,050.40
58,719.91
SET per Second
52,882.07
54,171.18
GET per Second
48,732.94
64,308.68
INCR per Second
51,072.52
55,648.30
LPUSH per Second
50,276.52
55,493.89
RPUSH per Second
48,402.71
52,938.06
LPOP per Second
47,415.84
62,539.09
RPOP per Second
55,493.89
66,269.05
SADD per Second
54,200.54
62,189.05
HSET per Second
54,764.51
55,157.20
SPOP per Second
47,014.57
54,674.69
ZADD per Second
55,248.62
55,035.77
ZPOPMIN per Second
54,288.82
55,035.77
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
27,548.21
37,355.25
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
15,467.90
21,715.53
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
10,514.14
16,084.93
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
8,056.72
14,990.26
MSET (10 keys) per Second
45,475.22
57,770.08
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE
0.49
0.42
PING_MBULK
0.50
0.44
SET
0.51
0.48
GET
0.57
0.40
INCR
0.59
0.47
LPUSH
0.67
0.47
RPUSH
0.55
0.49
LPOP
0.56
0.42
RPOP
0.48
0.39
SADD
0.49
0.42
HSET
0.52
0.47
SPOP
0.63
0.47
ZADD
0.48
0.48
ZPOPMIN
0.49
0.47
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.12
0.78
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
2.14
1.26
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
2.95
1.71
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
4.11
1.91
MSET (10 keys)
0.66
0.47
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
When comparing the DigitalOcean Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) and the Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) instances, the Regular instance showcases significantly higher performance in Redis benchmarks, especially with commands like LRANGE which are crucial for memory-intensive applications. However, the Premium AMD instance excels in CPU metrics and in specific database operations like bulk inserts and point selects for MySQL, demonstrating superior performance in CPU-bound tasks. The Premium AMD instance also provides faster file I/O operations, which could be beneficial for applications requiring high-speed read/write performance. Thus, the Regular instance is better suited for high-throughput, memory-intensive workloads, while the Premium AMD is ideal for CPU-heavy and high-speed I/O tasks.
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