g4ad.xlarge vs x8g.xlarge
| g4ad.xlarge | x8g.xlarge |
| GPU instance | Memory optimized |
| 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) 4 – Generation a – AMD processor d – Instance store volume xlarge – Size | In-memory databases (like SAP HANA), big data engines (such as Apache Spark, Presto), high-performance computing (HPC), and memory-heavy enterprise apps. x – Extreme RAM / memory intensive 8 – Generation g – AWS Graviton processor xlarge – Size |
| 4 | 4 |
| 16 GiB | 64 GiB |
| x86_64 | arm64 |
| AMD EPYC 7R32 | AWS Graviton4 Processor |
| 3 GHz | 2.8 GHz |
| 2 | 1 |
| yes | no |
| Radeon Pro V520 | |
| AMD | |
| 1 | |
| 8 GiB | |
| 8 GiB | |
| no | no |
| 8 GiB | |
| no | no |
| g4ad.16xlarge, g4ad.2xlarge, g4ad.4xlarge, g4ad.8xlarge, g4ad.xlarge | x8g.12xlarge, x8g.16xlarge, x8g.24xlarge, x8g.2xlarge, x8g.48xlarge, x8g.4xlarge, x8g.8xlarge, x8g.large, x8g.medium, x8g.metal-24xl, x8g.metal-48xl, x8g.xlarge |
| g4dn.xlarge | x8aedz.xlarge, x8i.xlarge |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 150 GB NVMe SSD | EBS only |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 3000 MBps | up to 10240 MBps |
| 400 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| 50 Mbps | 156.25 Mbps |
| 1700 IOPS | 6000 IOPS |
| 13333 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 3170 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 396.25 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | Up to 12.5 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 2 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 15 |
| 4 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.04x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | g4ad.xlarge | x8g.xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.4226 | 0.4449 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.4226 | 0.4680 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.4427 | 0.4690 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.4733 | 0.5462 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.5108 | n/a |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.3785 | 0.3908 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.3785 | 0.3908 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.3785 | 0.3908 |