hpc8a.96xlarge vs c8in.96xlarge

Accelerators
Instance Type	hpc8a.96xlarge	c8in.96xlarge
Instance Family	General purpose	Compute optimized
Details	High-performance computing (HPC), computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, seismic analysis, reservoir simulation, risk analysis, and weather modeling. hpc – High performance computing (HPC) / high disk throughput 8 – Generation a – AMD processor 96xlarge – Size	High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. c – Compute optimized 8 – Generation i – Intel processor n – Network and EBS optimized 96xlarge – Size
vCPUs	192	384
Memory	768 GiB	768 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor	Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
Clock Speed	4.5 GHz	3.9 GHz
Threads Per Core	1	2
GPU	no	no
Inference Accelerator	no	no
FPGA	no	no
Instances
Sizes	hpc8a.96xlarge	c8in.12xlarge, c8in.16xlarge, c8in.24xlarge, c8in.2xlarge, c8in.32xlarge, c8in.48xlarge, c8in.4xlarge, c8in.8xlarge, c8in.96xlarge, c8in.large, c8in.metal-48xl, c8in.metal-96xl, c8in.xlarge
Generations	hpc7a.96xlarge, hpc8a.96xlarge
Variants		c8i.96xlarge, c8ib.96xlarge, c8id.96xlarge
Free Tier	no	no
Burstable	no	no
Hibernation	no	no
Instance Storage	EBS only	EBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimized	default	default
Encryption	supported	supported
NVMe	required	required
Dedicated Throughput	87 MBps	120000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth	87 Mbps	120000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput	10.875 Mbps	15000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance	500 IOPS	480000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance	11000 IOPS	480000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth	2085 Mbps	120000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput	260.625 Mbps	15000 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance	300 Gigabit	600 Gigabit
Enhanced Networking	yes	yes
Max Interfaces	4	24
Max Cards	2	2
IPv4 Addresses per Interface	50	64
IPv6 Addresses per Interface	50	64
IPv6 Support	yes	yes
ENA Support	required	required
EFA Support	yes	yes
EFA Max Interfaces	2	2
Encryption in Transit Support	yes	yes
ENA SRD Support	no	yes
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	3.17x

Regional Prices

Geography	Region	hpc8a.96xlarge	c8in.96xlarge
Europe	Europe (Spain) (eu-south-2)	n/a	29.4912
Europe	Europe (Stockholm) (eu-north-1)	8.4977	n/a
US	GovCloud (US-West) (us-gov-west-1)	9.5341	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	10.2299	32.9011
US	US East (Ohio) (us-east-2)	7.9200	n/a
US	US East (Virginia) (us-east-1)	n/a	26.1274
US	US West (Oregon) (us-west-2)	n/a	26.1274