g6.xlarge by Amazon Web Services

g6.xlarge is a Graphics intensive Gen6 xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 4 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 250 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1171 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
250 GB Storage
1 GPU
Spare SCore
5,934
(All-cores)
2,971
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
g6.xlarge
Description
Graphics intensive Gen6 xlarge
Family
g6
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-08T14:39:44.686389

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.399167 USD/h 0.8048 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.464025 USD/h 0.8048 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.59256 USD/h 0.8048 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.253067 USD/h 0.848 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.19855 USD/h 0.8536 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.5358 USD/h 0.8936 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.16405 USD/h 0.9664 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.6286 USD/h 0.9664 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
0.4046 USD/h 0.9882 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.468633 USD/h 0.9896 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.477533 USD/h 1.0064 USD/h
(MY) / ap-southeast-5
0.4457 USD/h 1.0138 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.3719 USD/h 1.0216 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.408833 USD/h 1.0216 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.613767 USD/h 1.0464 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.35525 USD/h 1.085 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.56945 USD/h 1.1672 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.27935 USD/h 1.368 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
3.4 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
7R13
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ht, syscall, nx, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, topoext, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, vmmcall, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, invpcid, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, clzero, xsaveerptr, rdpru, wbnoinvd, arat, npt, nrip_save, vaes, vpclmulqdq, rdpid
Ecpus
2
Scalability
50

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR4
Memory Speed
3200 Mhz
GPU
GPU Count
1
GPU Memory Min
22 GiB
GPU Memory Total
22 GiB
GPU Manufacturer
NVIDIA
GPU Family
Ada Lovelace
GPU Model
L4
GPUs
  • NVIDIA Ada Lovelace NVIDIA L4 (Memory amount: 23034, Firmware version: 590.48.01, BIOS version: 95.04.65.00.37, Clock rate: 2040)
STORAGE
Storage Size
250 GB
Storage Type
nvme ssd
Storages
  • 250 GB nvme ssd
NETWORK
Network Speed Baseline
2.5 Gbps
Network Speed Max
10 Gbps
Network Storage Speed Baseline
1 Gbps
Network Storage Speed Max
5 Gbps
Inbound Traffic
0 GB/month
Outbound Traffic
0 GB/month
IPv4
0

CPU and System Topology

Server Description

A GPU-accelerated instance featuring an NVIDIA L4 GPU and NVMe storage, optimized for entry-level machine learning inference and graphics-intensive workloads.

GPU AcceleratedGeneral Purpose

Amazon Web Services g6.xlarge is a GPU-accelerated server designed for graphics-intensive and machine learning workloads. It features an x86_64 AMD EPYC 7R13 processor with 4 dedicated vCPUs, 16.0 GB of DDR4 memory, and a 250 GB local NVMe SSD. Acceleration is driven by a single NVIDIA Ada Lovelace L4 GPU with 22 GB of VRAM. While benchmarks indicate weak multi-core CPU performance and memory bandwidth, the instance achieves top-tier results in LLM inference for small and medium models, alongside strong single-core CPU performance. This configuration offers a cost-effective entry point for GPU-centric tasks by pairing a modest CPU allocation with a high-performance accelerator. It is highly suited for small-scale LLM deployment, machine learning inference, and graphics workloads, but less effective for CPU-heavy multi-threaded applications or high-throughput database operations.

Economics

Average Price per Region

Prices per Zone

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Performance

Workload Profiles

0.28Score
Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
Component Score Weight Impact
Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 355,437 ops/sec 2,029,678 ops/sec 0.18 50.00% 50.00% -58.00%
Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,649,197 ops/sec 12,408,146 ops/sec 0.22 20.00% 20.00% -26.00%
PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,979 2,417 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%
Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 44,882 MB/sec 108,374 MB/sec 0.41 10.00% 10.00% -8.50%
PassMark single-thread CPU 2,615 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%

Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench Single-Core

Score: 1,732

Geekbench Multi-Core

Score: 3,902

Passmark CPU Scores

BENCHMARKSCORE
Mark
 6812
Compression
 71305
Encryption
 4742
Extended Instructions
 3994
Floating Point Maths
 10060
Integer Maths
 18246
Physics
 869
Prime Numbers
 44
Single Threaded
 2615
String Sorting
 10022

Passmark Memory Scores

BENCHMARKSCORE
Memory Mark
 1979
Database Operations
 1922
Memory Latency
 65
Memory Read Cached
 26223
Memory Read Uncached
 17182
Memory Write
 17482

Stress-ng Raw Scores

Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

Static Web Server

Redis

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g6.16xlarge 64256 GiB1
g6.24xlarge 96384 GiB4
g6.48xlarge 192768 GiB8

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