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D16_v5 by Microsoft Azure

D16_v5 is a Dv5 family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.096 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
15534
(All-cores)
1900
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D16_v5
Name
D16_v5
API Reference
Standard_D16_v5
Description
Dv5 family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
Dv5
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-02T06:21:48.918182

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1419 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1424 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1621 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.2103 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.3823 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1493 USD/h 0.808 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.1493 USD/h 0.808 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.808 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.808 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1508 USD/h 0.816 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1562 USD/h 0.845 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1582 USD/h 0.856 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1582 USD/h 0.856 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2736 USD/h 0.856 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.3757 USD/h 0.856 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.1597 USD/h 0.864 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.1597 USD/h 0.864 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1602 USD/h 0.868 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.1632 USD/h 0.883 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1307 USD/h 0.888 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1656 USD/h 0.896 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.1656 USD/h 0.896 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1656 USD/h 0.896 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1661 USD/h 0.896 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.17 USD/h 0.92 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.17 USD/h 0.92 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.17 USD/h 0.92 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.17 USD/h 0.92 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.17 USD/h 0.92 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.17 USD/h 0.92 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1704 USD/h 0.922 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1704 USD/h 0.922 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1717 USD/h 0.929 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.1741 USD/h 0.942 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.1741 USD/h 0.942 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1745 USD/h 0.944 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.096 USD/h 0.96 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.1774 USD/h 0.96 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1774 USD/h 0.96 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.178 USD/h 0.96 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.1817 USD/h 0.983 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1833 USD/h 0.992 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1833 USD/h 0.992 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1844 USD/h 0.998 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.1863 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.187 USD/h 1.012 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1875 USD/h 1.012 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1878 USD/h 1.016 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1951 USD/h 1.056 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.1987 USD/h 1.075 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2001 USD/h 1.083 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.2153 USD/h 1.165 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.221 USD/h 1.196 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.2262 USD/h 1.224 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.2262 USD/h 1.224 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.2428 USD/h 1.314 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.2432 USD/h 1.316 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.2441 USD/h 1.321 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.294 USD/h 1.591 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8370C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
384 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
10 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
48 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, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, fsrm, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
8.2
Scalability
102.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
    • 0 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A balanced general-purpose virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors and sixty-four gigabytes of memory for standard enterprise workloads.

    General Purpose

    The Microsoft Azure D16_v5 is a general-purpose virtual machine from the Dv5 family, powered by an Intel Xeon 8370C processor running at 2.8 GHz on the x86_64 architecture. It features 16 dedicated vCPUs and 64.0 GB of RAM, providing a balanced 4.0 GB of memory per core. The instance includes no local storage or GPU accelerators, requiring external network storage. Benchmark results show average performance across standard compute and memory tasks, with a Passmark CPU score of 21184.1 and a Geekbench multi-core score of 9747.0. It demonstrates strong performance in lightweight LLM text generation at 283.58 tokens per second for a 135M model. The D16_v5 is optimized for general-purpose workloads such as static web serving, database operations, software compilation, and Redis caching.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.07Score
    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) 2,198,242 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 1.16 50.00% 50.00% +7.70%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 10,745,441 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.931 20.00% 20.00% -1.42%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,696 2,411 1.12 10.00% 10.00% +1.14%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 98,331 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.916 10.00% 10.00% -0.87%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,427 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.03 10.00% 10.00% +0.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,605

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,747

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 21184
    Compression
    		 246438
    Encryption
    		 14602
    Extended Instructions
    		 14298
    Floating Point Maths
    		 34409
    Integer Maths
    		 67313
    Physics
    		 2235
    Prime Numbers
    		 132
    Single Threaded
    		 2427
    String Sorting
    		 34854

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2696
    Database Operations
    		 7992
    Memory Latency
    		 52
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24304
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 12214
    Memory Write
    		 10771

    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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    D4_v5 416 GiB0
    D8_v5 832 GiB0
    D32_v5 32128 GiB0
    D48_v5 48192 GiB0
    D64_v5 64256 GiB0
    D96_v5 96384 GiB0

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