g4ad.xlarge vs p2.xlarge

Instance Typeg4ad.xlargep2.xlarge
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)
4 – Generation
a – AMD processor
d – Instance store volume
xlarge – Size
GPU intensive tasks like machine/deep learning, high-performance computing

p – Performance / GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) accelerated
2 – Generation
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory16 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturen/an/a
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R32Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Threads Per Core00
Accelerators
GPUnono
GPUs11
Inference Acceleratornono
Accelerator Memory8 GiB
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesg4ad.16xlarge, g4ad.2xlarge, g4ad.4xlarge, g4ad.8xlarge, g4ad.xlargep2.16xlarge, p2.8xlarge, p2.xlarge
Variantsg4dn.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units16
Instance Storage150 GB NVMe SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
Dedicated Throughputup to 3000 MBps750 MBps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
IPv6 Supportnono
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.00x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
g4ad.xlarge
p2.xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.42260.9720
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.42261.0800
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.44271.3260
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.47331.4650
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.51081.5420
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a1.5420
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a1.7180
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a1.7180
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.37850.9000
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.37850.9000
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.37850.9000
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