g3.4xlargevsg5.4xlarge

g3.4xlarge is 30% cheaper than g5.4xlarge on demand in US East (N. Virginia), saving $353.32 a month.

At a glanceg3.4xlargeg5.4xlarge
On-demand$1.14/hr30% less$1.624/hr
Lowest rate$0.4706/hr36% lessSpot, can be interrupted$0.7309/hrSpot, can be interrupted
Size16 vCPUs, 122 GiB16 vCPUs, 64 GiB
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)AMD EPYC 7R32
Architecturex86_64x86_64

Prices in US East (N. Virginia)

“Off” is the discount against each type’s own on-demand price. Linux, USD per hour.

Optiong3.4xlargeg5.4xlargeg5.4xlarge vs g3.4xlarge
On-demandPay by the hour$1.14$1.624▲ 42%
SpotCan be interrupted59% off$0.470655% off$0.7309▲ 55%
1-yr reservedNo upfront—37% off$1.023—
3-yr reservedNo upfront—57% off$0.7016—
1-yr savings planHourly commitment—21% off$1.279—
3-yr savings planHourly commitment—46% off$0.877—

Key differences

The biggest lead each one has.

Where g3.4xlarge leads
On-demand price$1.14 vs $1.624 per hour
30% cheaper
Memory (GiB)122 vs 64
91% higher
Where g5.4xlarge leads
GPU memory24 GB vs 8 GB
3× higher
Clock speed2.8 GHz vs 2.3 GHz
22% higher

Specs

40 of 45 specs differ. Those are in bold.

Compute9 of 11 differg3.4xlargeg5.4xlarge
vCPUs1616
Physical cores–8
Threads per core–2
Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)AMD EPYC 7R32
CPU maker–AMD
Clock speed2.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Sustained clock–3.3 GHz
Processor featuresIntel AVX; Intel AVX2; Intel TurboAMD Turbo; AVX; AVX2
Burstable–No
ECU58–
Memory1 of 1 differg3.4xlargeg5.4xlarge
Memory (GiB)12264
Accelerators2 of 3 differg3.4xlargeg5.4xlarge
GPUs11
GPU1 × NVIDIA Tesla M601 × NVIDIA A10G
GPU memory8 GB24 GB
Networking8 of 8 differg3.4xlargeg5.4xlarge
NetworkUp to 10 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Network baseline–10 Gbps
Network peak–25 Gbps
Enhanced networking–Yes (ENA)
EFA–No
IPv6–Yes
Max network interfaces–8
IPv4 addresses per interface–30
Storage12 of 12 differg3.4xlargeg5.4xlarge
StorageEBS only1 x 600 GB NVMe SSD
Local disks–1 × 600 GB SSD
EBS optimized–Yes
EBS over NVMe–Required
EBS throughput3500 Mbps8000 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth–4,750 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth–4,750 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput–593.75 MB/s
EBS max throughput–593.75 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS–20,000
EBS max IOPS–20,000
Max EBS volumes–25
Instance details8 of 10 differg3.4xlargeg5.4xlarge
Familyg3g5
CategoryGPU instanceGPU instance
Current generationYesYes
Normalization factor321.614314115
Bare metal–No
Hypervisor–Nitro
Placement groups–Cluster, Partition, Spread
Hibernation–No
Nitro Enclaves–Yes
Boot modes–Legacy BIOS, UEFI

On-demand prices by region

Cheapest for g3.4xlarge first. Linux, USD per hour.

Regiong3.4xlargeg5.4xlargeDifference
US East (N. Virginia)Used in summaryus-east-1$1.14$1.624▲ 42%
US East (Ohio)us-east-2$1.14$1.624▲ 42%
US West (Oregon)us-west-2$1.14$1.624▲ 42%
EU (Ireland)eu-west-1$1.21$1.813▲ 50%
Canada (Central)ca-central-1$1.416$1.803▲ 27%
Asia Pacific (Seoul)ap-northeast-2$1.42$1.997▲ 41%
EU (Frankfurt)eu-central-1$1.425$2.031▲ 43%
EU (London)eu-west-2$1.429$2.062▲ 44%
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)ap-northeast-1$1.58$2.355▲ 49%
Asia Pacific (Sydney)ap-southeast-2$1.754$2.111▲ 20%

Keep exploring

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AWS EC2 Linux prices in USD. Monthly figures use 730 hours. Prices last updated 12 Nov 2026.