m5.16xlarge by Amazon Web Services
m5.16xlarge is a General purpose Gen5 16xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 64 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.3424 USD per hour.
64 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
54160
(All-cores)
(All-cores)
1286
(Single-core)
(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | aws |
Name | m5.16xlarge |
Description | General purpose Gen5 16xlarge |
Family | m5 |
Hw Virt | |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-06-23T23:30:38.935168 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
Ohio (US) / us-east-2 | 0.7608 USD/h | 3.072 USD/h |
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1 | 0.999 USD/h | 3.072 USD/h |
Oregon (US) / us-west-2 | 1.213175 USD/h | 3.072 USD/h |
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2 | 0.907333 USD/h | 3.232 USD/h |
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1 | 0.982133 USD/h | 3.232 USD/h |
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1 | 0.506533 USD/h | 3.264 USD/h |
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2 | 0.4671 USD/h | 3.424 USD/h |
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1 | 0.9056 USD/h | 3.424 USD/h |
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1 | 1.562033 USD/h | 3.424 USD/h |
Calgary (CA) / ca-west-1 | 3.424 USD/h | 3.424 USD/h |
London (GB) / eu-west-2 | 0.858067 USD/h | 3.552 USD/h |
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1 | 0.565933 USD/h | 3.584 USD/h |
California (US) / us-west-1 | 0.7319 USD/h | 3.584 USD/h |
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3 | 1.226333 USD/h | 3.584 USD/h |
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1 | 1.309667 USD/h | 3.595 USD/h |
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1 | 1.128767 USD/h | 3.68 USD/h |
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1 | 0.998967 USD/h | 3.766 USD/h |
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2 | 0.99835 USD/h | 3.776 USD/h |
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3 | 0.7242 USD/h | 3.84 USD/h |
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4 | 0.859967 USD/h | 3.84 USD/h |
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1 | 1.473867 USD/h | 3.84 USD/h |
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2 | 1.625133 USD/h | 3.84 USD/h |
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1 | 0.895133 USD/h | 3.968 USD/h |
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3 | 1.190733 USD/h | 3.968 USD/h |
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2 | 1.015567 USD/h | 4.048 USD/h |
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1 | 0.440267 USD/h | 4.064 USD/h |
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1 | 0.462367 USD/h | 4.224 USD/h |
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1 | 0.658233 USD/h | 4.896 USD/h |
Processor
vCPUs | 64 |
Hypervisor | nitro |
CPU Allocation | Dedicated |
CPU Cores | 32 |
CPU Speed | 3.1 GHz |
CPU Architecture | x86_64 |
CPU Manufacturer | Intel |
CPU Family | Xeon |
CPU Model | 8175M |
CPU L1D Cache | 32 KiB |
CPU L1D Cache Total | 1 MiB |
CPU L1I Cache | 32 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache Total | 1 MiB |
CPU L2 Cache | 1 MiB |
CPU L2 Cache Total | 32 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache | 33 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache Total | 66 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, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, mpx, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, ida, arat, pku, ospke |
Ecpus | 42.1 |
Scalability | 131.56 |
System Resources and Accelerators
| MEMORY | |
|---|---|
Memory Amount | 256 GiB |
Memory Amount Actual | 256 GiB |
Memory Generation | DDR4 |
Memory Speed | 2666 Mhz |
| GPU | |
|---|---|
GPU Count | 0 |
GPU Memory Min | 0 MiB |
GPU Memory Total | 0 MiB |
GPUs |
| STORAGE | |
|---|---|
Storage Size | 0 GB |
Storages |
| NETWORK | |
|---|---|
Network Speed Baseline | 20 Gbps |
Network Speed Max | 20 Gbps |
Network Storage Speed Baseline | 13.6 Gbps |
Network Storage Speed Max | 13.6 Gbps |
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
Server Description
A balanced general-purpose server featuring sixty-four virtual cores, high memory bandwidth, and a twenty gigabit network baseline.
General Purpose
Amazon Web Services m5.16xlarge is a general-purpose server utilizing the Nitro hypervisor and an Intel Xeon 8175M processor. It features 64 vCPUs, 32 physical cores, and 256.0 GB of DDR4 memory, yielding a balanced 4.0 GB of RAM per core. The instance lacks local storage and GPU accelerators, but provides a 20 Gbps baseline network bandwidth. Performance benchmarks indicate weak single-core capabilities, but average multi-core processing and strong large-block memory bandwidth. This hardware profile is suited for multi-threaded workloads such as database operations, Redis deployments, and static web serving where memory throughput is critical but single-threaded execution speed is not the primary bottleneck.
Economics
Performance
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Score: 1,039
Geekbench Multi-Core
Score: 11,161
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 43191 |
Compression | 803192 |
Encryption | 25267 |
Extended Instructions | 52045 |
Floating Point Maths | 98812 |
Integer Maths | 184358 |
Physics | 4621 |
Prime Numbers | 262 |
Single Threaded | 1821 |
String Sorting | 93910 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 2698 |
Database Operations | 21183 |
Memory Latency | 52 |
Memory Read Cached | 22767 |
Memory Read Uncached | 10592 |
Memory Write | 10279 |
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
Alternatives
Servers of the Same Family
| INSTANCE | vCPUs | MEMORY | GPUs |
|---|---|---|---|
| m5.large | 2 | 8 GiB | 0 |
| m5.xlarge | 4 | 16 GiB | 0 |
| m5.2xlarge | 8 | 32 GiB | 0 |
| m5.4xlarge | 16 | 64 GiB | 0 |
| m5.8xlarge | 32 | 128 GiB | 0 |
| m5.12xlarge | 48 | 192 GiB | 0 |
| m5.24xlarge | 96 | 384 GiB | 0 |
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