D16as_v6 by Microsoft Azure

D16as_v6 is a Dav6 family [AMD processor] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0867 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
24,649
(All-cores)
3,080
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D16as_v6
Name
D16as_v6
API Reference
Standard_D16as_v6
Description
Dav6 family [AMD processor] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs
Family
Dav6
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-02T17:50:11.417647Z

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0867 USD/h 0.469 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.469 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.469 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1342 USD/h 0.726 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1342 USD/h 0.726 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1342 USD/h 0.726 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1342 USD/h 0.726 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1522 USD/h 0.726 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.141 USD/h 0.763 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1434 USD/h 0.776 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1475 USD/h 0.798 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1497 USD/h 0.81 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1497 USD/h 0.81 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1497 USD/h 0.81 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1506 USD/h 0.821 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.1517 USD/h 0.821 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.1517 USD/h 0.821 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.1543 USD/h 0.835 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1562 USD/h 0.845 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1576 USD/h 0.853 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1576 USD/h 0.853 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1576 USD/h 0.853 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1576 USD/h 0.853 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1606 USD/h 0.869 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1606 USD/h 0.869 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1623 USD/h 0.878 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1623 USD/h 0.878 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1623 USD/h 0.878 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.1626 USD/h 0.88 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.1626 USD/h 0.88 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.1626 USD/h 0.88 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1626 USD/h 0.88 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1652 USD/h 0.894 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.1652 USD/h 0.894 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.1652 USD/h 0.894 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0912 USD/h 0.912 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.1685 USD/h 0.912 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1685 USD/h 0.912 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1685 USD/h 0.912 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.1854 USD/h 0.912 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.1715 USD/h 0.928 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1748 USD/h 0.946 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1748 USD/h 0.946 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1748 USD/h 0.946 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1794 USD/h 0.971 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1857 USD/h 1.005 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.1879 USD/h 1.017 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.1887 USD/h 1.021 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.1918 USD/h 1.038 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.1918 USD/h 1.038 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1918 USD/h 1.038 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.2044 USD/h 1.106 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.2105 USD/h 1.139 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.2149 USD/h 1.163 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.2153 USD/h 1.165 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.2325 USD/h 1.258 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.2495 USD/h 1.35 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.2495 USD/h 1.35 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.279 USD/h 1.51 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
3.7 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
9V74
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 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, ht, syscall, nx, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, svm, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, topoext, vmmcall, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, avx512_bf16, clzero, xsaveerptr, rdpru, arat, npt, nrip_save, tsc_scale, vmcb_clean, flushbyasid, decodeassists, pausefilter, pfthreshold, v_vmsave_vmload, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, rdpid, fsrm
Ecpus
8
Scalability
50

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
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A balanced x86_64 virtual machine featuring strong single-core performance, dedicated AMD EPYC processors, and a standard one-to-four vCPU-to-RAM ratio.

      General Purpose

      The Microsoft Azure D16as_v6 is a general-purpose virtual machine from the Dav6 family, powered by an AMD EPYC 9V74 x86_64 processor. It features 16 dedicated vCPUs (8 physical cores with hyper-threading) running at 3.7 GHz, alongside 64.0 GB of RAM, with no local storage or GPUs. Benchmarks show strong single-core and text processing performance, placing in the top 25%. However, it exhibits tradeoffs, including weak large-block uncached read-only memory bandwidth (38.44 GB/sec) and poor large-model LLM inference speeds. Most multi-core, database, and web serving benchmarks fall within the average range. Qualitatively, the instance provides balanced resource density for workloads requiring solid single-thread performance without specialized hardware costs. It is best suited for general-purpose applications, web serving, software compilation, and moderate database tasks.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.88Score
      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) 1,708,415 ops/sec 1,916,704 ops/sec 0.89 50.00% 50.00% -5.70%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 12,317,782 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 1 20.00% 20.00% 0.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,613 2,418 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 42,728 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.39 10.00% 10.00% -9.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,906 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,101

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 12,505

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 26264
      Compression
      		 309652
      Encryption
      		 19287
      Extended Instructions
      		 21904
      Floating Point Maths
      		 42531
      Integer Maths
      		 76020
      Physics
      		 2320
      Prime Numbers
      		 123
      Single Threaded
      		 2906
      String Sorting
      		 44653

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2613
      Database Operations
      		 7447
      Memory Latency
      		 76
      Memory Read Cached
      		 27891
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 27568
      Memory Write
      		 26862

      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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