m5.xlarge
General purpose · Intel Xeon Platinum (x86)
PostgreSQL benchmark results for the m5.xlarge AWS EC2 instance with 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM, and x86-64 architecture.
Compute
- vCPU
- 4
- Memory
- 16 GiB
- Mem / vCPU
- 4 : 1
Platform
- Family
- m5
- Architecture
- x86-64
- Performance
- Fixed
Cost & region
- On-demand
- $0.1920/hr~$140/mo
- Region
- us-east-1
Chart
Change the metric and disk to see how the numbers shift as the dataset grows — and where it stops fitting in memory.
Open markers sit past the RAM limit (~12 GB of 16 GiB): the dataset no longer fits in cache, so the working set spills to disk and throughput drops.
All results
6 of 6 rows
| 1 GB | gp3-baseline | 39,959±0.7% | 186,794 | 0.80±0.7% | 2.22±0.3% | 2.68±0.3% | 9,990 | 2,497 |
| 10 GB | gp3-baseline | 39,076±0.6% | 182,669 | 0.82±0.6% | 2.24±0.4% | 2.69±0.4% | 9,769 | 2,442 |
| 1 GB | gp3-max | 39,479±0.4% | 112,506 | 0.81±0.4% | 2.24±0.2% | 2.69±0.2% | 9,870 | 2,467 |
| 10 GB | gp3-max | 37,821±0.2% | 107,781 | 0.85±0.2% | 2.28±0.1% | 2.74±0.1% | 9,455 | 2,364 |
| 50 GB | gp3-max | 18,841±0.1% | 53,692 | 1.70±0.1% | 2.70±0.1% | 3.17±0.1% | 4,710 | 1,178 |
| 50 GB | gp3-baseline | 3,335±2.1% | 15,591 | 9.60±2.1% | 14.83±2.8% | 17.64±3.1% | 834 | 208 |