Amazon EC2 P3 instances deliver high performance compute in the cloud with up to 8 NVIDIA® V100 Tensor Core GPUs and up to 100 Gbps of networking throughput for machine learning and HPC applications.
The p3.8xlarge is a aws ec2 instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for ec2 workloads.
| Compute | Value |
| vCPUs | 32 |
| Memory | 244 GiB |
| Physical Processor | Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) |
| Clock Speed | 2.3 GHz |
| CPU Architecture | 64-bit |
| GPU | 4 |
| GPU Memory | 64 GiB |
| Network | Value |
| Network Performance | 10 Gigabit |
| Enhanced Networking | Yes |
| Storage | Value |
| Storage | EBS only |
| EBS Throughput | 7000 Mbps |
| Amazon | Value |
| Current Generation | Yes |
| Instance Type | p3.8xlarge |
| Family | GPU instance |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| p3.2xlarge | 8 | 61 |
| p3.8xlarge | 32 | 244 |
| p3.16xlarge | 64 | 488 |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| i8g.8xlarge | 32 | 256 GiB |
| r8a.8xlarge | 32 | 256 GiB |
| r8gd.8xlarge | 32 | 256 GiB |
| r8gb.8xlarge | 32 | 256 GiB |
| r8g.8xlarge | 32 | 256 GiB |

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