hpc6id.32xlarge vs x8i.32xlarge

Accelerators
Instance Type	hpc6id.32xlarge	x8i.32xlarge
Instance Family	Compute optimized	Memory optimized
Details	High-performance computing (HPC), computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, seismic analysis, reservoir simulation, risk analysis, and weather modeling. hpc – High performance computing (HPC) / high disk throughput 6 – Generation i – Intel processor d – Instance store volume 32xlarge – 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 i – Intel processor 32xlarge – Size
vCPUs	64	128
Memory	1024 GiB	2048 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon Scalable (Icelake)	Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
Clock Speed	3.5 GHz	3.9 GHz
Threads Per Core	1	2
GPU	no	no
Inference Accelerator	no	no
FPGA	no	no
Instances
Sizes	hpc6id.32xlarge	x8i.12xlarge, x8i.16xlarge, x8i.24xlarge, x8i.2xlarge, x8i.32xlarge, x8i.48xlarge, x8i.4xlarge, x8i.64xlarge, x8i.8xlarge, x8i.96xlarge, x8i.large, x8i.metal-48xl, x8i.metal-96xl, x8i.xlarge
Free Tier	no	no
Burstable	no	no
Hibernation	no	no
Instance Storage	4 x 3800 NVMe SSD	EBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimized	default	default
Encryption	supported	supported
NVMe	required	required
Dedicated Throughput	up to 2085 MBps	40000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth	87 Mbps	40000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput	10.875 Mbps	5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance	500 IOPS	160000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance	11000 IOPS	160000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth	2085 Mbps	40000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput	260.625 Mbps	5000 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance	200 Gigabit	50000 Megabit
Enhanced Networking	yes	yes
Max Interfaces	2	24
Max Cards	2	1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface	50	64
IPv6 Addresses per Interface	50	64
IPv6 Support	yes	yes
ENA Support	required	required
EFA Support	yes	no
EFA Max Interfaces	2
Encryption in Transit Support	yes	yes
ENA SRD Support	no	yes
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	2.45x

Regional Prices

Geography	Region	hpc6id.32xlarge	x8i.32xlarge
Europe	Europe (Paris) (eu-west-3)	6.7729	n/a
Europe	Europe (Stockholm) (eu-north-1)	6.0352	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	6.8544	15.9718
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	n/a	19.6077
US	US East (Ohio) (us-east-2)	5.7000	14.0051
US	US East (Virginia) (us-east-1)	n/a	14.0051
US	US West (Oregon) (us-west-2)	n/a	14.0051