Amazon Graviton5 Boosts Performance by 25% While Cutting Costs

At re:Invent 2025 Amazon announced the Graviton5 processor, its most powerful and energy‑efficient custom chip to date, designed to run a wide range of EC2 workloads with the best price‑performance ratio.

Compared with the previous generation, Graviton5 provides up to 25% higher compute performance . Each chip packs 192 cores and a 5× larger L3 cache , which shortens the distance data must travel between cores, reducing inter‑core communication latency by up to 33% and increasing bandwidth. Network bandwidth improves by up to 15% and Amazon EBS bandwidth by up to 20% , while the chip is built on a 3 nm process and benefits from the Nitro System and the formally verified Nitro Isolation Engine for strong security and isolation.

Customers have validated the gains. Adobe uses Graviton to deliver personalized video streams at scale; Epic Games leverages the low latency and higher bandwidth for millions of concurrent players; Formula 1 processes telemetry data in real time; Pinterest serves over 500 million monthly active users; and SAP HANA Cloud sees OLTP query performance improvements of 35%–60% on Graviton5 instances.

Specific benchmark results include:

Airbnb observed a 25% performance uplift on its search workload and a 20% gain over Graviton4.

Atlassian reported a 30% performance increase and 20% latency reduction for Jira on Graviton5.

Siemens Calibre achieved a 20% performance boost on Graviton4 and a further 30% on early Graviton5 tests.

Synopsys tools (Fusion Compiler, PrimeTime, VCS) showed efficiency improvements of 35%–40% on Graviton5 versus the prior generation.

Graviton5 instances are available as the new Amazon EC2 M9g family for general‑purpose workloads, with compute‑optimized C9g and memory‑optimized R9g instances slated for future release. Detailed specifications and getting‑started guides are provided on the Amazon Graviton product page and technical documentation.