DigitalOcean - Premium Intel vs Premium AMD
For the 2 vCPU plans, the DigitalOcean Premium AMD plan outperforms the DigitalOcean Premium Intel plan with a marginal Single-Core Score improvement of 1% (973 vs 965) and a slightly higher Multi-Core Score of 1% (1728 vs 1710).
Moving to the 1 vCPU plans, the DigitalOcean Premium AMD plan has a significant advantage over the DigitalOcean Premium Intel plan, showing a 27% (1079 vs 849) higher Single-Core Score and a 31% (1090 vs 831) higher Multi-Core Score.
In both the 2 vCPU and 1 vCPU configurations, the AMD plans offer superior performance than the Intel plans at an equivalent cost.
| Provider | Plan | CPU | Type | Memory | Bandwidth | Storage | Price / month | Price / hour | Geekbench 6.1 Single-core | Geekbench 6.1 Multi-core |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean | Basic Droplets, Premium AMD | 1 | Shared | 2 GiB | 2 TiB | 50 GiB | 14 | 0.02083 | 1079 | 1090 |
| DigitalOcean | Basic Droplets, Premium Intel | 1 | Shared | 2 GiB | 2 TiB | 50 GiB | 14 | 0.02083 | 849 | 831 |
| DigitalOcean | Basic Droplets, Premium Intel | 2 | Shared | 2 GiB | 3 TiB | 60 GiB | 21 | 0.03125 | 965 | 1710 |
| DigitalOcean | Basic Droplets, Premium AMD | 2 | Shared | 2 GiB | 3 TiB | 60 GiB | 21 | 0.03125 | 973 | 1728 |