hpc7g.8xlarge vs r9gd.8xlarge

Instance Typehpc7g.8xlarger9gd.8xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedMemory optimized
DetailsHigh-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
7 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
8xlarge – Size
High-performance databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps.

r – RAM / memory optimized
9 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory128 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton3 ProcessorAWS Graviton5 Processor
Clock Speed2.6 GHz3.3 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizeshpc7g.16xlarge, hpc7g.4xlarge, hpc7g.8xlarger9gd.12xlarge, r9gd.16xlarge, r9gd.24xlarge, r9gd.2xlarge, r9gd.48xlarge, r9gd.4xlarge, r9gd.8xlarge, r9gd.large, r9gd.medium, r9gd.metal-48xl, r9gd.xlarge
Generationsr6gd.8xlarge, r7gd.8xlarge, r8gd.8xlarge, r9gd.8xlarge
Variantsr9g.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput87 MBps12000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth87 Mbps12000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput10.875 Mbps1500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance500 IOPS48000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance11000 IOPS48000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2085 Mbps12000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput260.625 Mbps1500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance200 Gigabit17 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces410
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportyesno
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.41x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
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On Demand
Geography
Region
hpc7g.8xlarge
r9gd.8xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)1.8059n/a
USGovCloud (US-West) (us-gov-west-1)2.0262n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.11173.0794
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a2.5629
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.68322.5629
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a2.5629
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