g3.16xlarge vs g5.12xlarge

Instance Typeg3.16xlargeg5.12xlarge
Instance FamilyGPU instanceGPU instance
DetailsMachine Learning (ML), 3D visualizations, graphics-heavy remote workstations, 3D rendering, application streaming, video encoding, and server-side graphics tasks.

g – GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)
3 – Generation
16xlarge – Size
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)
5 – Generation
12xlarge – Size
vCPUs6448
Memory488 GiB192 GiB
CPU Architecturen/ax86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)AMD EPYC 7R32
Clock Speed3.3 GHz
Threads Per Core02
Accelerators
GPUnoyes
GPU NameA10G
GPU ManufacturerNVIDIA
GPUs44
GPU Memory22.35 GiB
GPU Total Memory89.41 GiB
Inference Acceleratornono
Accelerator Memory32 GiB96 GiB
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesg3.16xlarge, g3.4xlarge, g3.8xlargeg5.12xlarge, g5.16xlarge, g5.24xlarge, g5.2xlarge, g5.48xlarge, g5.4xlarge, g5.8xlarge, g5.xlarge
Generationsg3.16xlarge, g5.16xlarge, g6.16xlargeg5.12xlarge, g6.12xlarge, g7.12xlarge
SageMakerml.g5.12xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units201
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 3800 GB NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughput14000 MBps16000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth16000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance65000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance65000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth16000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2000 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance20 Gigabit40 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces15
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface50
IPv6 Addresses per Interface50
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnoyes
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.25x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
g3.16xlarge
g5.12xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)4.84005.9765
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)7.01607.1999
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a7.1999
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a7.3747
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a7.9385
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a8.2261
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a8.7324
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a9.6413
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)5.28006.0159
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)5.66406.2978
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)5.68006.3317
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)5.70006.6483
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)5.71606.8109
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)6.13606.9575
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)6.32006.9744
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)6.68007.0928
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)4.56005.6720
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)4.56005.6720
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)4.56005.6720
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