r5d.metal by Amazon Web Services

r5d.metal is a Memory optimized [Instance store volumes] Gen5 metal server offered by Amazon Web Services with 96 vCPUs, 768 GiB of memory and 3.6 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.7053 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
768 GiB Memory
3.6 TB Storage
Spare SCore
82,013
(All-cores)
1,454
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
r5d.metal
Description
Memory optimized [Instance store volumes] Gen5 metal
Family
r5d
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-17T03:19:21.398062

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.7481 USD/h 6.912 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
1.706733 USD/h 6.912 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
2.067 USD/h 6.912 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.956267 USD/h 7.248 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
1.437967 USD/h 7.248 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.7296 USD/h 7.296 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
1.491533 USD/h 7.584 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
1.2039 USD/h 7.68 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
3.335767 USD/h 7.68 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
1.12385 USD/h 7.776 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
2.0292 USD/h 8.064 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
1.410433 USD/h 8.064 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
1.4585 USD/h 8.112 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
2.2811 USD/h 8.112 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
1.3331 USD/h 8.304 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
1.837233 USD/h 8.304 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.9119 USD/h 8.352 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
1.032767 USD/h 8.352 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
1.644233 USD/h 8.352 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
3.011533 USD/h 8.352 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
2.644167 USD/h 8.352 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
3.931067 USD/h 8.352 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
1.257167 USD/h 8.4 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
3.4584 USD/h 8.448 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
1.785667 USD/h 9.12 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
1.191033 USD/h 9.134 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
1.0944 USD/h 10.944 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
96
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
48
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
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
48 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, dts, acpi, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, tm, pbe, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, art, arch_perfmon, pebs, bts, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, dtes64, monitor, ds_cpl, vmx, smx, est, tm2, ssse3, sdbg, fma, cx16, xtpr, pdcm, pcid, dca, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, cpuid_fault, epb, cat_l3, cdp_l3, intel_ppin, ssbd, mba, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, ibrs_enhanced, tpr_shadow, flexpriority, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, cqm, mpx, rdt_a, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, intel_pt, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, cqm_llc, cqm_occup_llc, cqm_mbm_total, cqm_mbm_local, dtherm, ida, arat, pln, pts, hwp, hwp_act_window, hwp_epp, hwp_pkg_req, vnmi, pku, ospke, avx512_vnni, md_clear, flush_l1d, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
56.4
Scalability
117.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
768 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
768 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
    3600 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 900 GB nvme ssd
    • 900 GB nvme ssd
    • 900 GB nvme ssd
    • 900 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    25 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    25 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    19 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    19 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A bare-metal, memory-optimized server featuring high-capacity DDR4 RAM and local NVMe storage for demanding database and caching workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Amazon Web Services r5d.metal is a bare-metal, memory-optimized server designed for high-density workloads. It is equipped with 96 vCPUs across 48 physical cores of an Intel Xeon 8259CL processor running at 3.1 GHz, paired with 768.0 GB of DDR4 memory. The instance features 3600 GB of local NVMe SSD storage and a baseline network speed of 25 Gbps. Benchmark data highlights strong multi-core CPU capabilities, high memory bandwidth, and exceptional performance in database and Redis operations. However, single-core performance is average, and LLM text generation is weak due to the absence of GPU acceleration. This server is highly suited for large-scale databases, in-memory caching, and data-intensive enterprise applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    2.63Score
    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) 6,870,068 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 3.58 50.00% 50.00% +89.20%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 41,608,908 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 3.55 20.00% 20.00% +28.80%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,767 2,418 1.14 10.00% 10.00% +1.32%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 233,889 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 2.16 10.00% 10.00% +8.01%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,053 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.868 10.00% 10.00% -1.41%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,327

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 12,918

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 57042
    Compression
    		 1186619
    Encryption
    		 37490
    Extended Instructions
    		 74849
    Floating Point Maths
    		 146966
    Integer Maths
    		 274182
    Physics
    		 5068
    Prime Numbers
    		 348
    Single Threaded
    		 2053
    String Sorting
    		 136804

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2767
    Database Operations
    		 22043
    Memory Latency
    		 51
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24704
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10493
    Memory Write
    		 10155

    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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    r5d.12xlarge 48384 GiB0
    r5d.16xlarge 64512 GiB0

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