D14 by Microsoft Azure

D14 is a D family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 112 GiB of memory and 819 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2848 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
112 GiB Memory
819 GB Storage
Spare SCore
19,895
(All-cores)
1,247
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D14
Name
D14
API Reference
Standard_D14
Description
D family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
D
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
22
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-31T08:29:24.737145

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.3112 USD/h 1.387 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.6827 USD/h 1.387 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.3157 USD/h 1.407 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.3276 USD/h 1.46 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.3353 USD/h 1.494 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.3467 USD/h 1.54 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2848 USD/h 1.542 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.346 USD/h 1.542 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.346 USD/h 1.542 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.346 USD/h 1.542 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.3588 USD/h 1.542 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.6006 USD/h 1.546 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.3746 USD/h 1.665 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.377 USD/h 1.68 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.377 USD/h 1.68 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.377 USD/h 1.68 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.378 USD/h 1.68 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.3801 USD/h 1.694 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.397 USD/h 1.769 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.397 USD/h 1.769 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.4172 USD/h 1.859 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.4216 USD/h 1.879 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.432 USD/h 1.925 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.432 USD/h 1.925 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.4335 USD/h 1.932 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.4335 USD/h 1.932 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.4387 USD/h 1.955 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.4526 USD/h 2.017 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.4856 USD/h 2.164 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.5247 USD/h 2.331 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.5482 USD/h 2.443 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
2.6 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8171M
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
36 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
36 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, cpuid, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xsaves, md_clear
Ecpus
16
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
112 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
112 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    819 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 819 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An x86_64 virtual machine featuring sixteen dedicated cores, substantial memory capacity, and bundled local storage for multi-threaded enterprise workloads.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral PurposeStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure D14 is a D-family virtual machine instance configured with 16 dedicated vCPUs and 16 physical cores on an Intel Xeon 8171M x86_64 processor running at 2.6 GHz. It features 112.0 GB of RAM and 819 GB of bundled local storage, operating under the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. Performance benchmarks show a clear tradeoff: single-core performance is weak, placing in the bottom 25% for stress-ng and Geekbench, while multi-core performance, memory bandwidth, and database operations consistently achieve average tier results. The instance supports AVX-512 and AES instructions, enhancing cryptographic and vector calculations. Given its high memory-to-vCPU ratio and substantial local storage, the D14 is best suited for memory-intensive workloads, database operations, caching layers, and general-purpose enterprise applications that benefit from multi-threaded scaling rather than raw single-core speed.

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    Prices per Zone

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.9Score
    Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
    Component Score Weight Impact
    Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
    Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 1,775,856 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.95 50.00% 50.00% -2.50%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 10,963,497 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.92 20.00% 20.00% -1.70%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,129 2,416 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 107,980 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,422 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.58 10.00% 10.00% -5.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 934

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 7,506

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 16,347
    Compression
    		 237,974
    Encryption
    		 5,963
    Extended Instructions
    		 19,904
    Floating Point Maths
    		 39,117
    Integer Maths
    		 47,142
    Physics
    		 1,838
    Prime Numbers
    		 112
    Single Threaded
    		 1,422
    String Sorting
    		 28,268

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,129
    Database Operations
    		 8,721
    Memory Latency
    		 60
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18,089
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 7,881
    Memory Write
    		 7,881

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 206.93 181.92 0.88×
    bitops
    		 98,803 1,570,307 15.89×
    branch
    		 135,925 2,160,723 15.90×
    funccall
    		 480.59 7,616 15.85×
    funcret
    		 9,834 157,357 16.00×
    hash
    		 111,253 1,748,063 15.71×
    intmath
    		 19,614 312,309 15.92×
    nop
    		 168,316 2,678,702 15.91×
    prime
    		 280,416 4,437,606 15.83×
    rotate
    		 85,258 1,353,464 15.87×
    str
    		 645,847 10,185,755 15.77×
    wcs
    		 416,675 6,746,956 16.19×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,156 34,003 15.77×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 506.31 8,014 15.83×
    zlib
    		 41.33 667.66 16.15×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 17,403 158,484 9.11×
    clone
    		 939.94 8,993 9.57×
    context
    		 1,703 27,066 15.89×
    cpu-sched
    		 62.78 1,051 16.75×
    eventfd
    		 29,548 356,248 12.06×
    fault
    		 8,330 102,672 12.33×
    fork
    		 2,883 23,236 8.06×
    getrandom
    		 39,072 620,980 15.89×
    hrtimers
    		 121,242 2,293,373 18.92×
    mprotect
    		 961,602 3,367,716 3.50×
    mtx
    		 10,878,992 640,857,705 58.91×
    munmap
    		 2,049 20,016 9.77×
    null
    		 179,139 2,857,352 15.95×
    pipe
    		 812,770 5,934,786 7.30×
    priv-instr
    		 392,071 5,917,947 15.09×
    resched
    		 3,479,948 1,848,347 0.53×
    switch
    		 47,820 3,641,912 76.16×
    timermix
    		 173,681 2,447,269 14.09×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 9,627 36,984 3.84×
    tsc
    		 871,725 13,895,285 15.94×
    usersyscall
    		 269,644 4,179,651 15.50×
    vdso
    		 65,249,790 1,039,669,352 15.93×
    vfork
    		 17,011 147,342 8.66×
    x86syscall
    		 2,036,795 32,406,072 15.91×
    yield
    		 9,369,287 9,711,299 1.04×
    zero
    		 1,365,407 21,550,104 15.78×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 14,269 227,233 15.93×
    expmath
    		 2,363 37,659 15.94×
    fma
    		 523,605 8,288,053 15.83×
    fp
    		 143.46 2,276 15.87×
    fractal
    		 4.6 71.61 15.57×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,461 38,966 15.83×
    logmath
    		 3,999 63,633 15.91×
    matrix
    		 2,756 44,858 16.27×
    matrix-3d
    		 499.86 2,875 5.75×
    monte-carlo
    		 96.11 1,533 15.96×
    mpfr
    		 1,071 16,965 15.85×
    powmath
    		 1,401 22,251 15.89×
    trig
    		 1,506 24,021 15.95×
    veccmp
    		 13,762 218,760 15.90×
    vecfp
    		 1,957 30,996 15.84×
    vecmath
    		 1,881 29,955 15.92×
    vecshuf
    		 827.69 13,128 15.86×
    vecwide
    		 49,923 791,398 15.85×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 6.4 101.4 15.84×
    bsearch
    		 211.69 3,377 15.95×
    bubblesort
    		 0.6 9.6 16.00×
    fibsearch
    		 215.42 3,423 15.89×
    heapsort
    		 7.6 121 15.92×
    hsearch
    		 4,424 68,781 15.55×
    insertionsort
    		 7.2 114.6 15.92×
    malloc
    		 1,411,242 23,931,543 16.96×
    mcontend
    		 109.51 3,726 34.02×
    mergesort
    		 20.6 325.19 15.79×
    qsort
    		 13 206.6 15.89×
    skiplist
    		 4,285 68,269 15.93×
    tree
    		 1 12.6 12.60×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 165,314 285,334 1.73×
    cachehammer
    		 365,631 5,074,542 13.88×
    cacheline
    		 24.36 392.28 16.10×
    l1cache
    		 200.39 3,135 15.65×
    memcpy
    		 306.53 4,878 15.91×
    memrate
    		 1.17 9.27 7.92×
    memthrash
    		 96.23 494.79 5.14×
    ptr-chase
    		 10,388,343 148,734,492 14.32×
    spinmem
    		 352.98 698.1 1.98×
    stream
    		 23.33 3,646 156.26×
    vm
    		 59,337 294,112 4.96×

    Stress-ng Raw Scores

    Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

    LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

    LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

    Static Web Server

    Redis

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