Here is my new comparison of DigitalOcean VPS.
Shared CPU Basic plan. I can choose from Regular CPU to Premium Intel CPU.
I have a Five-year-old Regular CPU the smallest plan, $6 monthly. Then I created a new VPS, Premium Intel for $8 a month.
I use the script to test them.
Yet-Another-Bench-Script (YABS)
For the new VPS, I created a few days ago. The result is as below.
davidyin@stdavid:~$ curl -sL yabs.sh | bash -s -- -4# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## Yet-Another-Bench-Script ## v2025-01-01 ## https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #Tue Feb 25 22:47:37 PST 2025Basic System Information:---------------------------------Uptime : 1 days, 30 hours, 0 minutesProcessor : DO-Premium-IntelCPU cores : 1 @ 2000.000 MHzAES-NI : ✔ EnabledVM-x/AMD-V : ✔ EnabledRAM : 961.6 MiBSwap : 0.0 KiBDisk : 33.8 GiBDistro : Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTSKernel : 6.8.0-54-genericVM Type : KVMIPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ❌ OfflineIPv4 Network Information:---------------------------------ISP : DigitalOcean, LLCASN : AS14061 DigitalOcean, LLCHost : DigitalOcean, LLCLocation : Santa Clara, California (CA)Country : United Statesfio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):---------------------------------Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS) ------ | --- ---- | ---- ----Read | 146.47 MB/s (36.6k) | 540.75 MB/s (8.4k)Write | 146.85 MB/s (36.7k) | 543.60 MB/s (8.4k)Total | 293.32 MB/s (73.3k) | 1.08 GB/s (16.9k) | |Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS) ------ | --- ---- | ---- ----Read | 673.77 MB/s (1.3k) | 665.65 MB/s (650)Write | 709.57 MB/s (1.3k) | 709.98 MB/s (693)Total | 1.38 GB/s (2.7k) | 1.37 GB/s (1.3k)iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):---------------------------------Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping----- | ----- | ---- | ---- | ----Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 1.12 Gbits/sec | 1.58 Gbits/sec | 139 msEranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 1.09 Gbits/sec | 1.67 Gbits/sec | 139 msUztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 597 Mbits/sec | 922 Mbits/sec | 237 msLeaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | busy | 759 Mbits/sec | 278 msClouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 2.00 Gbits/sec | 8.14 Gbits/sec | 9.93 msLeaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 1.89 Gbits/sec | 3.50 Gbits/sec | 69.7 msEdgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 796 Mbits/sec | 1.19 Gbits/sec | 185 msGeekbench 4 test failed. Run manually to determine cause.YABS completed in 6 min 54 sec |
It failed at the last step of the Geekbench 4 test. I have no idea why.
The CPU frequency shown above is 2000MHz. It is not the same as DigitalOcean said in their blog post. They said the Intel Premium droplets operate at a base frequency of 2.5 GHz.
Maybe DigitalOcean changed it without notice. Anyway. Let me see my old VPS.
The result of my 5-year-old droplet.
davidyin@stpeter:~$ cddavidyin@stpeter:~$ curl -sL yabs.sh | bash -s -- -4# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## Yet-Another-Bench-Script ## v2025-01-01 ## https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #Tue Feb 25 22:47:00 PST 2025Basic System Information:---------------------------------Uptime : 1 days, 5 hours, 30 minutesProcessor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6140 CPU @ 2.30GHzCPU cores : 1 @ 2494.138 MHzAES-NI : ✔ EnabledVM-x/AMD-V : ✔ EnabledRAM : 961.7 MiBSwap : 0.0 KiBDisk : 24.1 GiBDistro : Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTSKernel : 6.8.0-53-genericVM Type : KVMIPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ❌ OfflineIPv4 Network Information:---------------------------------ISP : DigitalOcean, LLCASN : AS14061 DigitalOcean, LLCHost : DigitalOcean, LLCLocation : Santa Clara, California (CA)Country : United Statesfio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):---------------------------------Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS) ------ | --- ---- | ---- ----Read | 118.57 MB/s (29.6k) | 1.05 GB/s (16.4k)Write | 118.88 MB/s (29.7k) | 1.05 GB/s (16.5k)Total | 237.46 MB/s (59.3k) | 2.10 GB/s (32.9k) | |Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS) ------ | --- ---- | ---- ----Read | 1.54 GB/s (3.0k) | 1.81 GB/s (1.7k)Write | 1.63 GB/s (3.1k) | 1.93 GB/s (1.8k)Total | 3.17 GB/s (6.2k) | 3.74 GB/s (3.6k)iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):---------------------------------Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping----- | ----- | ---- | ---- | ----Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 859 Mbits/sec | 1.55 Gbits/sec | 140 msEranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 615 Mbits/sec | 1.55 Gbits/sec | 140 msUztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | busy | 531 Mbits/sec | 237 msLeaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | busy | 776 Mbits/sec | --Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.96 Gbits/sec | 8.28 Gbits/sec | 11.3 msLeaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 1.70 Gbits/sec | 3.53 Gbits/sec | 69.2 msEdgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 1.12 Gbits/sec | 1.14 Gbits/sec | 184 msGeekbench 4 Benchmark Test:---------------------------------Test | Value |Single Core | 2660Multi Core | 2549Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/18559545YABS completed in 7 min 33 sec |
The test was completed in 7 min 33 seconds.
Compare the Disk speed in these two results. The Regular one won.
CPU speed, the Regular won.
I searched the history of geekbench.com. Found a recent test result from other people. He tested DO-Premium-Intel droplet.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/compare/18506631?baseline=18559545
Not a big difference between the Premium Intel and Regular VPS.
I have also noticed that there are some test results of GB4 which is DO-Premium-Intel @ 2.49 GHz. It is what DigitalOcean promised. I did try to create a new Premium-Intel Droplet three times. No lucky. They were 2GHz.
The conclusion: It is not worth upgrading a regular droplet to a 2GHz Premium-Intel droplet.
