g2.8xlarge vs p3.8xlarge

Instance Typeg2.8xlargep3.8xlarge
Instance FamilyGPU instanceGPU instance
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Machine Learning (ML), 3D visualizations, graphics-heavy remote workstations, 3D rendering, application streaming, video encoding, and server-side graphics tasks.

g – GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)
2 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
GPU intensive tasks like machine/deep learning, high-performance computing

p – Performance / GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) accelerated
3 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory60 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturen/an/a
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge)Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Threads Per Core00
Accelerators
GPUnono
GPUs44
Inference Acceleratornono
Accelerator Memory64 GiB
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesg2.2xlarge, g2.8xlargep3.16xlarge, p3.2xlarge, p3.8xlarge
Generationsg2.8xlarge, g3.8xlarge, g5.8xlarge, g6.8xlarge, g7.8xlargep2.8xlarge, p3.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units10497
Instance Storage2 x 120 SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
Dedicated Throughput7000 MBps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHigh10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
IPv6 Supportnono
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x4.58x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
g2.8xlarge
p3.8xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)2.8080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.808013.2200
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)3.088013.4640
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.592014.3560
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)3.592014.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.592015.2920
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)4.000016.7760
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a16.9360
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a16.9360
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a16.9360
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a12.2400
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.600012.2400
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.600012.2400
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