Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and UpCloud and ran some benchmarks. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Wed, 13 May 2026 09:00:52 GMT
Wed, 13 May 2026 07:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
6.8.0-71-generic
6.8.0-111-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
New York, NY
Monthly Price
$56.00
€13.00
RAM (GB)
8
2
CPU Cores
4
1
Storage (TB)
160
50
Storage Type
NVMe
SSD
Transfer (TB)
5
2
CPU
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
AuthenticAMD
Model Name
DO-Premium-AMD
AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)
1,996.25
3,295.48
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
512.00
BogoMips
3,992.50
6,590.95
Events per Second
1,440.13
5,025.21
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.62
0.18
Average Latency (ms)
0.69
0.2
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.99
5.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.74
0.22
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Operations per second
4,607,623.18
5,932,400.60
Mebibytes per second
4,499.63
5,793.36
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.25
2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Operations per second
4,250,543.24
6,706,599.41
Mebibytes per second
4,150.92
6,549.41
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.24
1.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Reads per Second
2,071.41
3,214.64
Writes per Second
1,380.94
2,143.03
Fsyncs per Second
4,423.81
6,864.71
Read Mebibytes per Second
32.37
50.23
Written Mebibytes per Second
21.58
33.48
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.13
0.08
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.5
20.14
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.63
0.31
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
387.26
1,349.13
Average Latency (ms)
503.53
1,353.60
Maximum Latency (ms)
571.47
1,361.99
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
569.67
1,352.03
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
5,335.00
19,090.00
Queries per second
53,350.00
190,900.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.35
0.31
Average Latency (ms)
1.87
0.52
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.01
5.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.39
0.64
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
2,633.00
3,974.00
Queries per second
26,330.00
39,740.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.64
0.87
Average Latency (ms)
3.79
2.51
Maximum Latency (ms)
17.49
38.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5.88
5
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,598.00
2,830.00
Queries per second
15,980.00
28,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.99
1.29
Average Latency (ms)
6.25
3.53
Maximum Latency (ms)
47.79
56.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
9.39
6.32
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,813.00
4,647.00
Queries per second
38,130.00
46,470.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.33
0.61
Average Latency (ms)
2.62
2.15
Maximum Latency (ms)
21.61
28.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.33
4.41
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,317,592.00
2,249,592.00
Queries per second
13,175,920.00
22,495,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
494.55
207.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
128,652.00
645,161.00
Queries per second
1,286,520.00
6,451,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.01
Average Latency (ms)
0.08
0.02
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.43
2.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.11
0.02
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
6,602.00
8,546.00
Queries per second
66,020.00
85,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.51
0.13
Average Latency (ms)
1.51
1.17
Maximum Latency (ms)
9.03
172.57
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.14
1.58
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
6,138.00
11,562.00
Queries per second
61,380.00
115,620.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.54
0.22
Average Latency (ms)
1.63
0.86
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.46
4.07
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.18
1.27
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
4,416.00
4,711.00
Queries per second
44,160.00
47,110.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.05
0.73
Average Latency (ms)
2.26
2.12
Maximum Latency (ms)
16.43
30.41
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.49
3.96
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,561.00
5,393.00
Queries per second
35,610.00
53,930.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.35
0.48
Average Latency (ms)
2.81
1.85
Maximum Latency (ms)
32.29
39
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.41
3.43
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second
25,316.00
101,195.00
Queries per second
253,160.00
1,011,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.01
Average Latency (ms)
0.39
0.1
Maximum Latency (ms)
24.37
39.3
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.48
0.17
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
50,025.02
130,208.34
PING_MBULK per Second
48,123.20
130,208.34
SET per Second
54,318.30
130,890.05
GET per Second
50,428.64
129,198.97
INCR per Second
48,851.98
128,534.70
LPUSH per Second
50,327.12
128,040.97
RPUSH per Second
49,164.21
126,582.27
LPOP per Second
48,590.86
124,688.28
RPOP per Second
51,519.84
127,226.46
SADD per Second
50,607.29
129,198.97
HSET per Second
60,532.69
133,511.34
SPOP per Second
60,975.61
139,275.77
ZADD per Second
56,433.41
130,039.02
ZPOPMIN per Second
49,800.80
129,701.68
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
36,710.72
55,524.71
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
22,624.43
28,785.26
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
17,003.91
18,942.98
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
14,465.50
17,038.68
MSET (10 keys) per Second
51,440.33
108,225.10
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.53
0.25
PING_MBULK
0.54
0.25
SET
0.48
0.26
GET
0.51
0.26
INCR
0.54
0.26
LPUSH
0.52
0.26
RPUSH
0.53
0.27
LPOP
0.54
0.27
RPOP
0.51
0.27
SADD
0.52
0.26
HSET
0.43
0.26
SPOP
0.43
0.24
ZADD
0.46
0.26
ZPOPMIN
0.52
0.26
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.79
0.66
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.25
1.27
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
1.62
1.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
1.91
2.16
MSET (10 keys)
0.52
0.34
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The DigitalOcean Premium AMD instance shows strong performance in memory and CPU benchmarks, delivering high throughput for memory operations and respectable latency across various CPU tasks. In contrast, the UpCloud Balanced instance, despite having a single core, excels in Redis benchmarks with significantly higher request rates and lower latencies, and shows strong performance in memory operations and file I/O tasks. The DigitalOcean instance provides more CPU power and is better suited for workloads that demand high concurrency and CPU-intensive tasks, while the UpCloud instance shines in scenarios requiring high-speed Redis operations and has adequate memory performance for general purposes, making it suitable for less CPU-heavy applications.
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