DigitalOcean Premium Intel (1 GB) vs. DigitalOcean Premium Intel (2 GB)
Last updated on August 1, 2026
Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I spun up fresh instances from DigitalOcean and did some benchmarking. Each instance was running 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 – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:06:47 GMT
Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:08:17 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
$8.00
$16.00
RAM (GB)
1
2
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
35
70
Storage Type
NVMe
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
1
2
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category Winner
CPU (events/sec) DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Memory (read MiB/s) DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Disk I/O (MiB/s) DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) MySQL (read/write tps) DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Redis (GET/sec) DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Value (CPU events per $/mo) DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) takes 4 of 6 categories.
CPU
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Vendor
GenuineIntel
GenuineIntel
Model Name
DO-Premium-Intel
DO-Premium-Intel
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,100.00
2,494.14
CPU Cache Size (KB)
4,096.00
4,096.00
BogoMips
4,199.99
4,988.28
Events per Second
2,013.81
599.47
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.48
0.98
Average Latency (ms)
0.5
1.67
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.98
12.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.53
2.91
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second
4,187,334.90
4,940,116.70
Mebibytes per second
4,089.19
4,824.33
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.12
0.44
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second
4,366,312.99
4,629,786.72
Mebibytes per second
4,263.98
4,521.28
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.45
3.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second
2,182.02
3,843.72
Writes per Second
1,454.68
2,562.48
Fsyncs per Second
4,663.66
8,204.64
Read Mebibytes per Second
34.09
60.06
Written Mebibytes per Second
22.73
40.04
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.12
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
19.91
5.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.42
0.21
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,139.85
1,668.13
Average Latency (ms)
2,170.02
1,673.77
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,181.39
1,680.60
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,198.52
1,678.14
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
8,593.00
8,428.00
Queries per second
85,930.00
84,280.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.98
1.02
Average Latency (ms)
1.16
1.18
Maximum Latency (ms)
20.7
6.54
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.61
1.7
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
4,104.00
9,581.00
Queries per second
41,040.00
95,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.05
0.74
Average Latency (ms)
2.43
1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)
18.59
8.19
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.3
1.37
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
2,212.00
3,903.00
Queries per second
22,120.00
39,030.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.65
1.98
Average Latency (ms)
4.51
2.56
Maximum Latency (ms)
14.28
11.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.32
3.25
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
6,241.00
15,461.00
Queries per second
62,410.00
154,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.63
0.45
Average Latency (ms)
1.6
0.64
Maximum Latency (ms)
25.45
10.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.66
0.92
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,171,967.00
1,317,592.00
Queries per second
11,719,670.00
13,175,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
459.35
355.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
234,610.00
239,595.00
Queries per second
2,346,100.00
2,395,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.03
Average Latency (ms)
0.04
0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.37
1.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.06
0.05
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
5,162.00
5,471.00
Queries per second
51,620.00
54,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.57
0.62
Average Latency (ms)
1.93
1.83
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.87
5.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.81
2.43
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
7,424.00
7,700.00
Queries per second
74,240.00
77,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.49
0.43
Average Latency (ms)
1.35
1.3
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.12
4.19
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.89
1.73
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
7,010.00
15,377.00
Queries per second
70,100.00
153,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.62
0.45
Average Latency (ms)
1.42
0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)
37.55
5.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.3
0.9
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
6,487.00
16,540.00
Queries per second
64,870.00
165,400.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.6
0.44
Average Latency (ms)
1.54
0.6
Maximum Latency (ms)
13.73
5.98
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.35
0.83
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
67,164.00
129,377.00
Queries per second
671,640.00
1,293,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.03
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.15
0.08
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.58
5.6
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.03
0.13
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
68,728.52
74,850.30
PING_MBULK per Second
69,060.77
75,075.07
SET per Second
64,350.06
72,202.16
GET per Second
58,788.95
71,174.38
INCR per Second
66,137.57
68,027.21
LPUSH per Second
65,487.89
67,114.09
RPUSH per Second
68,259.38
71,377.59
LPOP per Second
66,755.67
65,189.05
RPOP per Second
66,800.27
66,934.41
SADD per Second
66,313.00
70,521.86
HSET per Second
66,533.60
71,174.38
SPOP per Second
69,979.01
71,479.62
ZADD per Second
60,938.45
68,587.11
ZPOPMIN per Second
63,411.54
72,358.90
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
38,372.98
33,167.50
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
18,378.97
17,540.78
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
12,220.46
12,242.90
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
11,273.96
10,551.86
MSET (10 keys) per Second
50,000.00
62,421.97
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE 0.46 0.42 PING_MBULK 0.46 0.42 SET 0.50 0.44 GET 0.54 0.44 INCR 0.48 0.47 LPUSH 0.49 0.48 RPUSH 0.47 0.45 LPOP 0.48 0.49 RPOP 0.48 0.48 SADD 0.48 0.45 HSET 0.48 0.45 SPOP 0.45 0.44 ZADD 0.53 0.47 ZPOPMIN 0.50 0.44 LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) 0.87 1.01 LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) 1.75 1.83 LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) 2.71 2.73 LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) 2.89 3.06 MSET (10 keys) 0.80 0.65
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The DigitalOcean Premium Intel (2 GB) instance outperforms the Premium Intel (1 GB) instance in most benchmarks, particularly in Redis operations with higher RPS rates and lower latencies, and MySQL bulk insert operations, showing significantly higher TPS. While both instances deliver strong performance, the 2 GB variant edges out the 1 GB in CPU-intensive tasks and memory operations, providing a compelling choice for workloads that benefit from additional RAM and CPU performance.
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