r8g.2xlarge by Amazon Web Services
(All-cores)
(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | aws |
Name | r8g.2xlarge |
Description | Memory optimized [AWS Graviton processors] Gen8 2xlarge |
Family | r8g |
Hw Virt | |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-08-09T23:29:59.771099 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1 | 0.1005 USD/h | 0.3303 USD/h |
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2 | 0.109167 USD/h | 0.3303 USD/h |
Ohio (US) / us-east-2 | 0.1718 USD/h | 0.4713 USD/h |
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1 | 0.20712 USD/h | 0.4713 USD/h |
Oregon (US) / us-west-2 | 0.2479 USD/h | 0.4713 USD/h |
(MY) / ap-southeast-5 | 0.174667 USD/h | 0.4832 USD/h |
(TH) / ap-southeast-7 | 0.3073 USD/h | 0.4832 USD/h |
(MX) / mx-central-1 | 0.169 USD/h | 0.4948 USD/h |
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1 | 0.147467 USD/h | 0.5012 USD/h |
Calgary (CA) / ca-west-1 | 0.1241 USD/h | 0.5162 USD/h |
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1 | 0.189967 USD/h | 0.5162 USD/h |
California (US) / us-west-1 | 0.1964 USD/h | 0.5236 USD/h |
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2 | 0.079167 USD/h | 0.5271 USD/h |
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1 | 0.3034 USD/h | 0.5274 USD/h |
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1 | 0.113333 USD/h | 0.5522 USD/h |
London (GB) / eu-west-2 | 0.1997 USD/h | 0.5535 USD/h |
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3 | 0.177833 USD/h | 0.5535 USD/h |
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4 | 0.116 USD/h | 0.5648 USD/h |
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2 | 0.179367 USD/h | 0.5648 USD/h |
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3 | 0.0884 USD/h | 0.5685 USD/h |
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3 | 0.176433 USD/h | 0.5685 USD/h |
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1 | 0.209933 USD/h | 0.5685 USD/h |
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2 | 0.227 USD/h | 0.5685 USD/h |
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1 | 0.257433 USD/h | 0.5685 USD/h |
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1 | 0.2415 USD/h | 0.5685 USD/h |
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1 | 0.2375 USD/h | 0.5801 USD/h |
(NZ) / ap-southeast-6 | 0.184667 USD/h | 0.593 USD/h |
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1 | 0.113467 USD/h | 0.6248 USD/h |
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2 | 0.118433 USD/h | 0.6254 USD/h |
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1 | 0.1289 USD/h | 0.6283 USD/h |
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1 | 0.156767 USD/h | 0.7499 USD/h |
Processor
vCPUs | 8 |
Hypervisor | nitro |
CPU Allocation | Dedicated |
CPU Cores | 8 |
CPU Speed | 2.8 GHz |
CPU Architecture | arm64 |
CPU Manufacturer | AWS |
CPU Model | Neoverse-V2 |
CPU L1D Cache | 64 KiB |
CPU L1D Cache Total | 512 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache | 64 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache Total | 512 KiB |
CPU L2 Cache | 2 MiB |
CPU L2 Cache Total | 16 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, ssbs, sb, paca, pacg, dcpodp, sve2, sveaes, svepmull, svebitperm, svesha3, flagm2, frint, svei8mm, svebf16, i8mm, bf16, dgh, rng, bti |
Ecpus | 8 |
Scalability | 100 |
System Resources and Accelerators
| MEMORY | |
|---|---|
Memory Amount | 64 GiB |
Memory Amount Actual | 63 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 | 3.75 Gbps |
Network Speed Max | 15 Gbps |
Network Storage Speed Baseline | 2.5 Gbps |
Network Storage Speed Max | 10 Gbps |
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
Server Description
A dedicated ARM64 memory-optimized instance delivering top-tier memory bandwidth and high memory-to-core density for memory-intensive workloads.
Amazon Web Services r8g.2xlarge is an ARM64 memory-optimized instance featuring 8 dedicated vCPUs on an AWS Neoverse-V2 processor running at 2.8 GHz. It is equipped with 64.0 GB of RAM, providing 8.0 GB of memory per core, but lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Built on the Nitro hypervisor, the instance delivers top-tier memory performance, with PassMark memory scores in the top 10% and large-block read bandwidth in the top 25%. Single-core performance is strong in text processing and bzip3 decompression, though multi-core execution and database operations remain average. Cryptographic performance and medium-model prompt processing are notable weaknesses. The r8g.2xlarge is suited for memory-intensive workloads, in-memory databases, and text processing tasks requiring high memory-to-core ratios.
Economics
Performance
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Geekbench Multi-Core
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 7699 |
Compression | 53159 |
Encryption | 1510 |
Extended Instructions | 7357 |
Floating Point Maths | 48484 |
Integer Maths | 41722 |
Physics | 2569 |
Prime Numbers | 141 |
Single Threaded | 1944 |
String Sorting | 37135 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 3231 |
Database Operations | 12134 |
Memory Latency | 47 |
Memory Read Cached | 21194 |
Memory Read Uncached | 20095 |
Memory Write | 21274 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| r8g.medium | 1 | 8 GiB | 0 |
| r8g.large | 2 | 16 GiB | 0 |
| r8g.xlarge | 4 | 32 GiB | 0 |
| r8g.4xlarge | 16 | 128 GiB | 0 |
| r8g.8xlarge | 32 | 256 GiB | 0 |
| r8g.12xlarge | 48 | 384 GiB | 0 |
| r8g.16xlarge | 64 | 512 GiB | 0 |
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