r8a.16xlarge by Amazon Web Services

r8a.16xlarge is a Memory optimized [AMD processors] Gen8 16xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 64 vCPUs, 512 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.6329 USD per hour.
64 vCPU
512 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
231,276
(All-cores)
3,773
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
r8a.16xlarge
Description
Memory optimized [AMD processors] Gen8 16xlarge
Family
r8a
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-10T00:38:20.003836

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
1.223233 USD/h 5.1123 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
1.72294 USD/h 5.1123 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
1.779675 USD/h 5.1123 USD/h
Taipei (TW) / ap-east-2
1.228467 USD/h 5.5504 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
2.27735 USD/h 5.599 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
1.431133 USD/h 5.7206 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
2.2314 USD/h 5.7206 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
2.241133 USD/h 6.167 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
3.256367 USD/h 6.167 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
64
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
64
CPU Speed
4.5 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
9R45
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
3 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
64 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
256 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, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, monitor, 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, perfctr_core, ssbd, perfmon_v2, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, ibrs_enhanced, vmmcall, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, clzero, xsaveerptr, rdpru, wbnoinvd, arat, avx512vbmi, pku, ospke, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, rdpid, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, avx512_vp2intersect, flush_l1d
Ecpus
61.3
Scalability
95.78

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
512 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
512 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR5
Memory Speed
6400 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
      30 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      30 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      20 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      20 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A memory-optimized instance combining high-frequency dedicated AMD EPYC processors with dense DDR5 memory for demanding database and caching workloads.

      Memory OptimizedCompute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      The Amazon Web Services r8a.16xlarge is a memory-optimized server instance featuring 64 dedicated physical cores powered by an AMD EPYC 9R45 processor running at 4.5 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture and managed via the AWS Nitro hypervisor, it is equipped with 512.0 GB of DDR5 memory operating at 6 GHz, delivering 8.0 GB of RAM per core. The instance lacks local storage but offers a baseline network bandwidth of 30 Gbps. In benchmark testing, the r8a.16xlarge delivers top-tier performance, placing in the top 10% for both single-core and multi-core CPU execution, memory bandwidth, and database operations. It achieves 193.5 million Redis SET operations per second and 117.71 GB/sec in static web serving. This hardware profile makes the instance highly efficient for memory-intensive workloads, including in-memory databases, large-scale caching, and data processing.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      6.64Score
      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) 20,704,551 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 10.8 50.00% 50.00% +229.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 132,839,353 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 11.4 20.00% 20.00% +62.70%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,781 2,418 1.15 10.00% 10.00% +1.41%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 506,928 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 4.69 10.00% 10.00% +16.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,840 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.62 10.00% 10.00% +4.94%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,749

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 29,002

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 119031
      Compression
      		 1843494
      Encryption
      		 98983
      Extended Instructions
      		 158564
      Floating Point Maths
      		 475353
      Integer Maths
      		 484272
      Physics
      		 21942
      Prime Numbers
      		 1604
      Single Threaded
      		 3840
      String Sorting
      		 252721

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2781
      Database Operations
      		 43220
      Memory Latency
      		 88
      Memory Read Cached
      		 33809
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 32669
      Memory Write
      		 32958

      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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