r8a.8xlarge by Amazon Web Services
(All-cores)
(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | aws |
Name | r8a.8xlarge |
Description | Memory optimized [AMD processors] Gen8 8xlarge |
Family | r8a |
Hw Virt | |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-07-26T21:29:48.897076 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1 | 0.85918 USD/h | 2.5562 USD/h |
Ohio (US) / us-east-2 | 0.815033 USD/h | 2.5562 USD/h |
Oregon (US) / us-west-2 | 0.9809 USD/h | 2.5562 USD/h |
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2 | 0.577667 USD/h | 2.8603 USD/h |
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1 | 1.2414 USD/h | 2.8603 USD/h |
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1 | 0.919033 USD/h | 3.0835 USD/h |
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1 | 1.0475 USD/h | 3.0835 USD/h |
Processor
vCPUs | 32 |
Hypervisor | nitro |
CPU Allocation | Dedicated |
CPU Cores | 32 |
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 | 2 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 | 32 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache Total | 128 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 | 31.9 |
Scalability | 99.69 |
System Resources and Accelerators
| MEMORY | |
|---|---|
Memory Amount | 256 GiB |
Memory Amount Actual | 256 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 | 15 Gbps |
Network Speed Max | 15 Gbps |
Network Storage Speed Baseline | 10 Gbps |
Network Storage Speed Max | 10 Gbps |
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
Server Description
A memory-optimized x86_64 platform featuring dedicated AMD EPYC processors and DDR5 memory for database and memory-intensive workloads.
Amazon Web Services r8a.8xlarge is a memory-optimized instance featuring 32 dedicated physical cores powered by an AMD EPYC 9R45 processor running at 4.5 GHz. Built on the Nitro hypervisor, it provides 256.0 GB of DDR5 memory at 6 GHz, establishing an 8.0 GB per core ratio. The instance lacks local storage and dedicated GPUs, relying on a 15 Gbps baseline network bandwidth. Benchmark results place the server in the top 10% for Geekbench single-core and multi-core scores, software compilation, and Passmark database operations, while memory bandwidth tests fall in the top 25%. Conversely, the Passmark memory score is in the middle 50%. This hardware profile is suited for memory-intensive workloads, database operations, software compilation, and medium-scale LLM inference, offering a high-density memory configuration without the added cost of local storage.
Economics
Performance
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Geekbench Multi-Core
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 78538 |
Compression | 1017530 |
Encryption | 50450 |
Extended Instructions | 90182 |
Floating Point Maths | 242616 |
Integer Maths | 242567 |
Physics | 11710 |
Prime Numbers | 868 |
Single Threaded | 3800 |
String Sorting | 137035 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 2692 |
Database Operations | 41052 |
Memory Latency | 91 |
Memory Read Cached | 33901 |
Memory Read Uncached | 32625 |
Memory Write | 33019 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| r8a.medium | 1 | 8 GiB | 0 |
| r8a.large | 2 | 16 GiB | 0 |
| r8a.xlarge | 4 | 32 GiB | 0 |
| r8a.2xlarge | 8 | 64 GiB | 0 |
| r8a.4xlarge | 16 | 128 GiB | 0 |
| r8a.12xlarge | 48 | 384 GiB | 0 |
| r8a.16xlarge | 64 | 512 GiB | 0 |
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