DigitalOcean Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) vs. Linode Nanode (1 GB)

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Linode and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Thu, 28 May 2026 17:00:52 GMT Fri, 29 May 2026 15:00:53 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 Newark, NJ
Monthly Price $56.00 $5.00
RAM (GB) 8 1
CPU Cores 4 1
Storage (TB) 160 25
Storage Type NVMe SSD
Transfer (TB) 5 1

CPU

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vendor AuthenticAMD AuthenticAMD
Model Name DO-Premium-AMD AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 1,996.25 2,300.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 512.00
BogoMips 3,992.49 4,599.99
Events per Second 1,426.65 1,022.23
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.6 0.61
Average Latency (ms) 0.7 0.98
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.36 5.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.74 2.39

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Operations per second 4,443,762.02 5,296,233.64
Mebibytes per second 4,339.61 5,172.10
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.17 3.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Operations per second 4,622,449.59 5,154,651.90
Mebibytes per second 4,514.11 5,033.84
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.22 3.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Reads per Second 1,418.14 2,055.76
Writes per Second 945.43 1,370.51
Fsyncs per Second 3,028.37 4,389.22
Read Mebibytes per Second 22.16 32.12
Written Mebibytes per Second 14.77 21.41
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.18 0.13
Maximum Latency (ms) 39.56 12.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.7 0.35

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 444.21 1,633.32
Average Latency (ms) 494.97 1,644.62
Maximum Latency (ms) 533.21 1,653.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 530.08 1,648.20

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 4,649.00 7,575.00
Queries per second 46,490.00 75,750.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.55 1.22
Average Latency (ms) 2.15 1.32
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.4 4.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.76 1.42

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,579.00 5,800.00
Queries per second 25,790.00 58,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.73 1.15
Average Latency (ms) 3.87 1.72
Maximum Latency (ms) 44.6 12.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 6.32 2.39

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,022.00 2,955.00
Queries per second 10,220.00 29,550.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 4.03 2.64
Average Latency (ms) 9.78 3.38
Maximum Latency (ms) 61.58 22.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 25.28 4.41

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 4,127.00 8,921.00
Queries per second 41,270.00 89,210.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.12 0.65
Average Latency (ms) 2.42 1.12
Maximum Latency (ms) 22.15 8.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.96 1.42

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,055,467.00 1,288,467.00
Queries per second 10,554,670.00 12,884,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 737.23 398.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 100,797.00 170,179.00
Queries per second 1,007,970.00 1,701,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 0.1 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.57 7.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.14 0.08

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,518.00 7,819.00
Queries per second 65,180.00 78,190.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.49 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 1.53 1.28
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.14 6.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.18 1.64

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,908.00 7,328.00
Queries per second 59,080.00 73,280.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.74 0.3
Average Latency (ms) 1.69 1.36
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.26 4.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.3 1.76

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,248.00 8,603.00
Queries per second 22,480.00 86,030.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.21 0.69
Average Latency (ms) 4.44 1.16
Maximum Latency (ms) 64.97 6.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 12.98 1.7

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,518.00 7,719.00
Queries per second 35,180.00 77,190.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.33 0.65
Average Latency (ms) 2.84 1.29
Maximum Latency (ms) 107.96 54.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.74 1.73

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second 14,245.00 80,451.00
Queries per second 142,450.00 804,510.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 0.7 0.12
Maximum Latency (ms) 70.06 16.14
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.07 0.42

Redis

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 63,734.86 44,052.86
PING_MBULK per Second 50,968.40 44,563.28
SET per Second 46,970.41 44,072.28
GET per Second 46,816.48 44,345.89
INCR per Second 47,281.32 42,535.09
LPUSH per Second 47,258.98 41,545.49
RPUSH per Second 48,685.49 37,299.52
LPOP per Second 50,479.56 43,327.55
RPOP per Second 49,925.11 43,103.45
SADD per Second 47,664.44 43,994.72
HSET per Second 47,080.98 43,956.04
SPOP per Second 48,053.82 44,130.62
ZADD per Second 47,846.89 42,390.84
ZPOPMIN per Second 47,709.93 43,159.26
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 33,467.20 28,843.38
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 18,716.08 15,153.81
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 13,513.51 10,595.47
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 12,751.85 9,122.42
MSET (10 keys) per Second 56,947.61 40,112.31

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.410.78
PING_MBULK0.510.77
SET0.550.78
GET0.560.77
INCR0.560.80
LPUSH0.550.82
RPUSH0.540.90
LPOP0.520.80
RPOP0.520.80
SADD0.550.78
HSET0.550.79
SPOP0.550.77
ZADD0.560.81
ZPOPMIN0.540.79
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.801.23
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.522.38
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)1.953.44
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)2.113.96
MSET (10 keys)0.490.88

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The DigitalOcean Premium AMD instance provides stronger overall performance with higher CPU, RAM, and benchmark results across various metrics, such as Redis operations, file I/O, and MySQL operations, reflecting its superior capabilities for CPU-intensive tasks and workloads requiring substantial memory and I/O operations. In contrast, the Linode Nanode instance, though capable, offers limited CPU power and memory, resulting in lower benchmark scores. Ideal use cases for the DigitalOcean instance include high-demand applications, such as those requiring multi-threading and high memory usage, while the Linode Nanode may suffice for lighter, cost-sensitive tasks.

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