r5b.16xlarge by Amazon Web Services
(All-cores)
(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | aws |
Name | r5b.16xlarge |
Description | Memory optimized Gen5 16xlarge |
Family | r5b |
Hw Virt | |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-08-01T09:49:49.726227 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
Ohio (US) / us-east-2 | 1.7042 USD/h | 4.768 USD/h |
Oregon (US) / us-west-2 | 2.3651 USD/h | 4.768 USD/h |
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1 | 2.599525 USD/h | 4.768 USD/h |
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1 | 1.33865 USD/h | 5.0541 USD/h |
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1 | 1.618967 USD/h | 5.216 USD/h |
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1 | 2.191067 USD/h | 5.344 USD/h |
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1 | 1.3306 USD/h | 5.6 USD/h |
London (GB) / eu-west-2 | 2.170167 USD/h | 5.6 USD/h |
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2 | 1.704233 USD/h | 5.696 USD/h |
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1 | 2.2425 USD/h | 5.696 USD/h |
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1 | 2.4047 USD/h | 5.696 USD/h |
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1 | 1.265367 USD/h | 5.792 USD/h |
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2 | 2.636567 USD/h | 5.792 USD/h |
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1 | 3.726567 USD/h | 7.584 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 | 8259CL |
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 | 36 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache Total | 72 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, avx512_vnni |
Ecpus | 42.4 |
Scalability | 132.5 |
System Resources and Accelerators
| MEMORY | |
|---|---|
Memory Amount | 512 GiB |
Memory Amount Actual | 512 GiB |
Memory Generation | DDR4 |
Memory Speed | 2933 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 | 40 Gbps |
Network Storage Speed Max | 40 Gbps |
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
Server Description
A memory-optimized virtual server featuring high-density DDR4 RAM and strong large-block memory bandwidth for demanding database and caching workloads.
Amazon Web Services r5b.16xlarge is a memory-optimized server instance utilizing the AWS Nitro hypervisor and an x86_64 Intel Xeon 8259CL processor running at 3.1 GHz. It features 64 vCPUs across 32 physical cores, 512.0 GB of DDR4 memory, and a baseline network bandwidth of 20 Gbps, with no local storage or GPUs. Performance benchmarks show strong memory bandwidth for large block read and write operations, though single-core CPU performance and single-threaded compression tasks represent a clear tradeoff, scoring in the bottom 25 percent. Multi-core processing, database operations, and software compilation benchmarks consistently rank in the average tier. This resource profile makes the r5b.16xlarge highly suitable for memory-intensive workloads such as in-memory databases, caching layers, and large-scale data processing applications that benefit from high memory density over raw single-core compute power.
Economics
Performance
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Geekbench Multi-Core
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 41629 |
Compression | 787517 |
Encryption | 24664 |
Extended Instructions | 48892 |
Floating Point Maths | 96695 |
Integer Maths | 180136 |
Physics | 3762 |
Prime Numbers | 199 |
Single Threaded | 1819 |
String Sorting | 91140 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 2280 |
Database Operations | 19499 |
Memory Latency | 61 |
Memory Read Cached | 22000 |
Memory Read Uncached | 8407 |
Memory Write | 7837 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| r5b.large | 2 | 16 GiB | 0 |
| r5b.xlarge | 4 | 32 GiB | 0 |
| r5b.2xlarge | 8 | 64 GiB | 0 |
| r5b.4xlarge | 16 | 128 GiB | 0 |
| r5b.8xlarge | 32 | 256 GiB | 0 |
| r5b.12xlarge | 48 | 384 GiB | 0 |
| r5b.24xlarge | 96 | 768 GiB | 0 |
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