C5/C6/C7 Large Instances at AWS

3 generations with mixed x86 and ARM architecture of the large size instances from the C series at AWS.

	C5.LARGE	C6G.LARGE 💰	C7G.LARGE 🥇 💪	C7I.LARGE
Vendor
$Core	119,747/USD Best (ondemand): 22,963/USD Best (spot): 119,747/USD	284,054/USD Best (ondemand): 70,680/USD Best (spot): 284,054/USD	313,720/USD Best (ondemand): 61,977/USD Best (spot): 313,720/USD	141,233/USD Best (ondemand): 22,759/USD Best (spot): 141,233/USD
SCore All	1952	3011	3043	1991
SCore Single	1485	1519	1532	1938
Best spot price	0.0163 USD eu-south-1c	0.0106 USD me-central-1b	0.0097 USD af-south-1a	0.0141 USD us-east-2c
Best ondemand price	0.085 USD ap-south-1a	0.0426 USD ap-south-1a	0.0491 USD ap-south-1a	0.0875 USD ap-southeast-5a
CPU
vCPUs	2	2	2	2
Hypervisor	nitro	nitro	nitro	nitro
CPU Allocation	Dedicated	Dedicated	Dedicated	Dedicated
CPU Cores	1	2	2	1
CPU Speed	3.4 GHz	2.5 GHz	2.6 GHz	3.2 GHz
CPU Architecture	x86_64	arm64	arm64	x86_64
CPU Manufacturer	Intel	AWS	AWS	Intel
CPU Family	Xeon	ARMv8	ARMv8	Xeon
CPU Model	8275CL	Neoverse-N1	Neoverse-V1	8488C
CPU L1D Cache	32 KiB	64 KiB	64 KiB	48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total	32 KiB	128 KiB	128 KiB	48 KiB
CPU L1I Cache	32 KiB	64 KiB	64 KiB	32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total	32 KiB	128 KiB	128 KiB	32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache	1024 KiB	1024 KiB	1024 KiB	2048 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total	1024 KiB	2048 KiB	2048 KiB	2048 KiB
CPU L3 Cache	36608 KiB	32768 KiB	32768 KiB	107520 KiB
CPU L3 Cache Total	36608 KiB	32768 KiB	32768 KiB	107520 KiB
Memory
Memory Amount	4 GiB	4 GiB	4 GiB	4 GiB
Memory Generation	DDR4			DDR5
Memory Speed	2933 Mhz			4800 Mhz
GPU
GPU Count	0	0	0	0
Storage
Storage Size	-	-	-	-
Network
Network Speed	0.75 Gbps	0.75 Gbps	0.937 Gbps	0.781 Gbps
Inbound Traffic	0 GB/month	0 GB/month	0 GB/month	0 GB/month
Outbound Traffic	0 GB/month	0 GB/month	0 GB/month	0 GB/month
IPv4	0	0	0	0
Memory Bandwidth
bw_mem: Read bw_mem: Write bw_mem: Read/Write
Compression

OpenSSL
AES-256-CBC ARIA-256-CBC CAMELLIA-256-CBC SM4-CBC blake2b512 sha256 sha3-256 sha3-512 sha512 shake128 shake256
Geekbench

PassMark (CPU)

String Sorting	3.44K	5.62K	7.84K	4.57K
Single Threaded	2.00K	1.11K	1.56K	2.84K
Prime Numbers	14.31	17.26	25.23	17.27
Physics	298.10	362.54	565.17	419.07
Mark	2.32K	1.35K	1.56K	3.59K
Integer Maths	6.54K	7.85K	9.49K	9.34K
Floating Point Maths	3.51K	5.96K	9.43K	6.71K
Extended Instructions	1.60K	1.24K	1.65K	2.35K
Encryption	898.65	268.28	273.96	2.08K
Compression	29.82K	8.97K	10.31K	35.67K
PassMark (Memory)

Memory Write	10.03K	12.56K	19.65K	10.37K
Memory Read Uncached	10.33K	9.20K	18.85K	7.03K
Memory Read Cached	25.22K	9.48K	19.68K	25.66K
Memory Mark	930.71	822.09	1.06K	805.62
Memory Latency	53.34	70.59	50.72	95.20
Database Operations	718.29	1.29K	2.02K	924.42
Stress-ng div16 Raw Scores per vCPU

Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance per vCPU

LLM Inference Speed

Static Web Server

Redis

Further Benchmarks
Workload profile: Web server
Workload profile: Compute heavy
Workload profile: CI/CD build
Workload profile: Cache intensive
stress-ng CPU all
stress-ng div16 multi-core
stress-ng div16 single-core
BogoMips
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C5/C6/C7 Large Instances at AWS

CPU

Memory

GPU

Storage

Network

Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench

PassMark (CPU)

PassMark (Memory)

Stress-ng div16 Raw Scores per vCPU

Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance per vCPU

LLM Inference Speed

Static Web Server

Redis

Further Benchmarks

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