g3.8xlarge vs g5.8xlarge

Instance Typeg3.8xlargeg5.8xlarge
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
8xlarge – 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
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory244 GiB128 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
GPUs21
GPU Memory22.35 GiB
GPU Total Memory22.35 GiB
Inference Acceleratornono
Accelerator Memory16 GiB24 GiB
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesg3.16xlarge, g3.4xlarge, g3.8xlargeg5.12xlarge, g5.16xlarge, g5.24xlarge, g5.2xlarge, g5.48xlarge, g5.4xlarge, g5.8xlarge, g5.xlarge
Generationsg2.8xlarge, g3.8xlarge, g5.8xlarge, g6.8xlarge, g7.8xlargeg2.8xlarge, g3.8xlarge, g5.8xlarge, g6.8xlarge, g7.8xlarge
Variantsg5g.8xlarge
SageMakerml.g5.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units97
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 900 GB NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughput7000 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 Performance10 Gigabit25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces8
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface30
IPv6 Addresses per Interface30
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnoyes
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.08x

Regional Prices

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Per Hour
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On Demand
Geography
Region
g3.8xlarge
g5.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.42002.5794
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)3.50803.1075
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a3.1075
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a3.1829
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a3.4262
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a3.5503
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a3.7689
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a4.1611
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.64002.5964
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.83202.7181
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.84002.7327
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.85002.8693
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.85802.9396
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.06803.0028
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.16003.0101
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)3.34003.0612
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.28002.4480
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.28002.4480
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.28002.4480
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