What are actual Tesla M60 models used by AWS?

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Wikipedia says that the Tesla M60 has 2x8 GB RAM (whatever it means) and TDP 225–300 W.

I use an EC2 instance (g3s.xlarge) which is supposed to have a Tesla M60. But nvidia-smi command says it has 8GB ram and max power limit 150W:

> sudo nvidia-smi
Tue Mar 12 00:13:10 2019
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 410.79       Driver Version: 410.79       CUDA Version: 10.0     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  Tesla M60           On   | 00000000:00:1E.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   43C    P0    37W / 150W |   7373MiB /  7618MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0      6779      C   python                                      7362MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

What does it mean? Do I get a 'half' of the card? Is the Tesla M60 actually two cards stuck together as the ram specification (2x8) suggests?

score 20 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 12 '19 at 15:37

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Yes, the Tesla M60 is two GPUs stuck together, and each g3s.xlarge or g3.4xlarge instance gets one of the two GPUs.

edited Mar 12 '19 at 15:37

Robin Whittleton

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answered Mar 12 '19 at 00:44

Michael Hampton

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BTW, what does 's' stand for in 'g3s'? [Other 'g3' machines don't have it.](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/#Accelerated_Computing) – hans Mar 12 '19 at 15:46
@hans Probably something like "small". That instance type has far less CPU and RAM than the other instance types. – Michael Hampton Mar 12 '19 at 15:47
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@MichaelHampton How can it both be small and xlarge at the same time? – kasperd Mar 24 '19 at 07:49
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@kasperd You'll have to ask Amazon. I don't understand their naming conventions either. – Michael Hampton Mar 24 '19 at 15:12

What are actual Tesla M60 models used by AWS?

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