x8g.2xlarge by Amazon Web Services
(All-cores)
(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | aws |
Name | x8g.2xlarge |
Description | Memory intensive [AWS Graviton processors] Gen8 2xlarge |
Family | x8g |
Hw Virt | |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-06-26T06:10:51.665646 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
Ohio (US) / us-east-2 | 0.184867 USD/h | 0.7816 USD/h |
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1 | 0.30685 USD/h | 0.7816 USD/h |
Oregon (US) / us-west-2 | 0.356467 USD/h | 0.7816 USD/h |
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1 | 0.1586 USD/h | 0.8898 USD/h |
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1 | 0.31695 USD/h | 0.936 USD/h |
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2 | 0.2996 USD/h | 0.9379 USD/h |
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1 | 0.353667 USD/h | 1.0924 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 | 128 GiB |
Memory Amount Actual | 126 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
An arm64 memory-optimized virtual server featuring high memory density and top-tier memory bandwidth for database and caching workloads.
Amazon Web Services x8g.2xlarge is an arm64 memory-optimized server instance powered by an 8-core AWS Graviton Neoverse-V2 processor running at 2.8 GHz. It features 128.0 GB of RAM, providing a high resource density of 16.0 GB per core, while lacking local storage and GPU accelerators. Built on the Nitro hypervisor, it delivers a baseline network bandwidth of 4 Gbps. Performance benchmarks show top-tier memory scores and strong single-threaded compression and text processing capabilities. However, cryptographic performance and LLM inference speeds represent notable performance tradeoffs. This instance is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-heavy workloads, making it highly suitable for database operations, caching systems like Redis, and memory-intensive software compilation.
Economics
Performance
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Geekbench Multi-Core
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 7705 |
Compression | 53182 |
Encryption | 1512 |
Extended Instructions | 7359 |
Floating Point Maths | 48489 |
Integer Maths | 41737 |
Physics | 2568 |
Prime Numbers | 141 |
Single Threaded | 1945 |
String Sorting | 37100 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 3139 |
Database Operations | 12016 |
Memory Latency | 50 |
Memory Read Cached | 21208 |
Memory Read Uncached | 18245 |
Memory Write | 21294 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| x8g.medium | 1 | 16 GiB | 0 |
| x8g.large | 2 | 32 GiB | 0 |
| x8g.xlarge | 4 | 64 GiB | 0 |
| x8g.4xlarge | 16 | 256 GiB | 0 |
| x8g.8xlarge | 32 | 512 GiB | 0 |
| x8g.12xlarge | 48 | 768 GiB | 0 |
| x8g.16xlarge | 64 | 1024 GiB | 0 |
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