m8gb.16xlarge by Amazon Web Services

m8gb.16xlarge is a General purpose [AWS Graviton processors] Gen8 16xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 64 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.3918 USD per hour.
64 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
109,097
(All-cores)
1,706
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m8gb.16xlarge
Description
General purpose [AWS Graviton processors] Gen8 16xlarge
Family
m8gb
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-10T13:38:53.591699

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
1.422025 USD/h 4.656 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
1.497733 USD/h 4.656 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
1.817233 USD/h 5.2038 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
64
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
64
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Manufacturer
AWS
CPU Family
ARMv9
CPU Model
Neoverse-V2
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
128 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
36 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
36 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, atomics, fphp, asimdhp, cpuid, asimdrdm, jscvt, fcma, lrcpc, dcpop, sha3, asimddp, sha512, sve, asimdfhm, dit, uscat, ilrcpc, flagm, sb, paca, pacg, dcpodp, sve2, sveaes, svepmull, svebitperm, svesha3, flagm2, frint, svei8mm, svebf16, i8mm, bf16, dgh, rng, bti
Ecpus
63.9
Scalability
99.84

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
256 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
252 GiB
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
      133.333 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      133.333 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      100 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      100 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      An ARMv9-powered general-purpose instance delivering top-tier memory bandwidth and multi-core performance for high-throughput, network-heavy workloads.

      General Purpose

      Amazon Web Services m8gb.16xlarge is a general-purpose instance powered by a 64-core AWS Graviton ARMv9 Neoverse-V2 processor running at 2.8 GHz. Built on the Nitro hypervisor, it features 256.0 GB of memory, translating to 4.0 GB per core, and lacks local storage or GPU accelerators. The instance delivers a baseline network bandwidth of 133 Gbps. Benchmark data highlights top-tier memory bandwidth, multi-core processing, and database operations, alongside strong multi-threaded decompression and software compilation. However, single-core performance and small-model LLM text generation represent notable tradeoffs, performing in the average and weak ranges respectively. This hardware profile is highly suited for multi-threaded applications, high-throughput static web serving, Redis deployments, and software compilation workloads.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      4.32Score
      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) 12,187,725 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 6.36 50.00% 50.00% +152.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 70,816,923 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 6.06 20.00% 20.00% +43.40%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 3,405 2,418 1.41 10.00% 10.00% +3.50%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 552,282 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 5.11 10.00% 10.00% +17.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,944 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.822 10.00% 10.00% -1.94%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,889

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 25,794

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 44190
      Compression
      		 424857
      Encryption
      		 12118
      Extended Instructions
      		 56251
      Floating Point Maths
      		 387720
      Integer Maths
      		 333789
      Physics
      		 16946
      Prime Numbers
      		 711
      Single Threaded
      		 1944
      String Sorting
      		 293005

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 3405
      Database Operations
      		 47975
      Memory Latency
      		 44
      Memory Read Cached
      		 19700
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 20248
      Memory Write
      		 21294

      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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