D16as_v7 by Microsoft Azure
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Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | azure |
Server ID | Standard_D16as_v7 |
Name | D16as_v7 |
API Reference | Standard_D16as_v7 |
Description | Dasv7 family [AMD processor] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs |
Family | Dasv7 |
Hw Virt | |
Average Time To Start | 31 |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-10-23T15:16:40.129775 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
Central India (IN) / centralindia | 0.0867 USD/h | 0.469 USD/h |
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest | - | 0.469 USD/h |
Central US (US) / centralus | 0.1339 USD/h | 0.726 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 | 0.1408 USD/h | 0.726 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 |
North Europe (IE) / northeurope | 0.1497 USD/h | 0.81 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 |
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral | 0.1623 USD/h | 0.878 USD/h |
West Europe (NL) / westeurope | 0.1623 USD/h | 0.878 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 |
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth | 0.1652 USD/h | 0.894 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 |
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 |
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast | 0.1918 USD/h | 1.038 USD/h |
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth | 0.1918 USD/h | 1.038 USD/h |
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth | 0.2153 USD/h | 1.165 USD/h |
Processor
vCPUs | 16 |
Hypervisor | Microsoft Hyper-V |
CPU Allocation | Dedicated |
CPU Cores | 8 |
CPU Speed | 4.5 GHz |
CPU Architecture | x86_64 |
CPU Manufacturer | AMD |
CPU Family | EPYC |
CPU Model | 9V45 |
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 | 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, xtopology, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, 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, avx_vnni, 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, avx512_vp2intersect |
Ecpus | 8 |
Scalability | 50 |
System Resources and Accelerators
| MEMORY | |
|---|---|
Memory Amount | 64 GiB |
Memory Amount Actual | 64 GiB |
| ACCELERATORS | |
|---|---|
Accelerator Count | 0 |
Accelerator Memory Min | 0 MiB |
Accelerator Memory Total | 0 MiB |
Accelerators |
| STORAGE | |
|---|---|
Storage Size | 0 GB |
Storages |
| NETWORK | |
|---|---|
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
CPU and System Topology
Server Description
A balanced general-purpose virtual machine featuring high-frequency AMD processors and dedicated compute resources for reliable multi-workload execution.
Microsoft Azure D16as_v7 is a general-purpose virtual machine from the Dasv7 family, powered by an AMD EPYC 9V45 processor running at 4.5 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture, it features 16 dedicated vCPUs across 8 physical cores and is configured with 64.0 GB of RAM, yielding a balanced 4.0 GB per core. The instance lacks local storage and GPU accelerators but is Premium Storage capable. Benchmark results show top-tier single-core CPU performance and single-threaded compression speeds, alongside average multi-core and memory bandwidth metrics. The server is suited for general-purpose workloads, including web serving, database operations, and small-scale language model inference, though it exhibits performance limitations on larger model workloads.
Economics
Performance
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 33,163 |
Compression | 367,321 |
Encryption | 20,560 |
Extended Instructions | 29,161 |
Floating Point Maths | 61,646 |
Integer Maths | 106,048 |
Physics | 3,972 |
Prime Numbers | 143 |
Single Threaded | 3,809 |
String Sorting | 46,338 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 2,797 |
Database Operations | 10,084 |
Memory Latency | 81 |
Memory Read Cached | 34,082 |
Memory Read Uncached | 30,210 |
Memory Write | 30,378 |
Stress-ng Stressors
| CPU integer | Single | Multi | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
atomic | 501.64 | 375.49 | 0.75× |
bitops | 231,098 | 1,983,669 | 8.58× |
branch | 184,598 | 2,307,330 | 12.50× |
funccall | 905.19 | 8,817 | 9.74× |
funcret | 26,492 | 278,484 | 10.51× |
hash | 213,369 | 2,504,154 | 11.74× |
intmath | 79,347 | 759,879 | 9.58× |
nop | 422,651 | 4,052,516 | 9.59× |
prime | 622,947 | 6,272,027 | 10.07× |
rotate | 140,692 | 1,120,779 | 7.97× |
str | 1,474,639 | 13,848,548 | 9.39× |
wcs | 1,007,875 | 8,594,729 | 8.53× |
| Cryptography | Single | Multi | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
crypt | 5,430 | 43,874 | 8.08× |
| Compression | Single | Multi | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
jpeg | 1,114 | 11,487 | 10.31× |
zlib | 79.17 | 1,026 | 12.96× |
| Hypervisor | Single | Multi | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
clock | 26,344 | 284,009 | 10.78× |
clone | 1,384 | 10,707 | 7.74× |
context | 5,630 | 74,347 | 13.21× |
cpu-sched | 69.05 | 1,038 | 15.03× |
eventfd | 48,728 | 771,530 | 15.83× |
fault | 12,662 | 115,277 | 9.10× |
fork | 6,613 | 47,845 | 7.23× |
getrandom | 71,589 | 725,422 | 10.13× |
hrtimers | 138,952 | 1,687,903 | 12.15× |
mprotect | 1,679,597 | 4,263,860 | 2.54× |
mtx | 18,386,288 | 745,862,747 | 40.57× |
munmap | 4,372 | 38,581 | 8.82× |
null | 608,122 | 7,948,260 | 13.07× |
pipe | 2,709,344 | 9,329,943 | 3.44× |
priv-instr | 594,019 | 7,694,454 | 12.95× |
resched | 4,594,185 | 743,157 | 0.16× |
switch | 138,524 | 3,221,225 | 23.25× |
timermix | 211,561 | 2,573,735 | 12.17× |
tlb-shootdown | 24,279 | 66,780 | 2.75× |
tsc | 874,312 | 13,915,426 | 15.92× |
usersyscall | 468,560 | 6,059,594 | 12.93× |
vdso | 110,022,314 | 1,497,345,483 | 13.61× |
vfork | 38,374 | 303,345 | 7.91× |
x86syscall | 8,275,187 | 108,074,102 | 13.06× |
yield | 11,072,864 | 10,926,278 | 0.99× |
zero | 4,299,320 | 54,168,956 | 12.60× |
| CPU float/SIMD | Single | Multi | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
eigen | 17,549 | 151,508 | 8.63× |
expmath | 4,014 | 39,396 | 9.81× |
fma | 1,569,214 | 16,551,890 | 10.55× |
fp | 206.24 | 2,438 | 11.82× |
fractal | 9 | 99.01 | 11.00× |
hyperbolic | 5,424 | 61,689 | 11.37× |
logmath | 5,687 | 64,808 | 11.40× |
matrix | 9,300 | 57,115 | 6.14× |
matrix-3d | 100.48 | 2,366 | 23.55× |
monte-carlo | 280.52 | 3,614 | 12.88× |
mpfr | 2,399 | 24,004 | 10.01× |
powmath | 1,846 | 21,811 | 11.82× |
trig | 2,421 | 27,350 | 11.30× |
veccmp | 30,191 | 300,006 | 9.94× |
vecfp | 2,412 | 26,563 | 11.01× |
vecmath | 4,739 | 55,157 | 11.64× |
vecshuf | 1,004 | 9,104 | 9.07× |
vecwide | 40,290 | 387,734 | 9.62× |
| Algorithms | Single | Multi | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
bitonicsort | 12.6 | 112 | 8.89× |
bsearch | 351.6 | 3,825 | 10.88× |
bubblesort | 1.2 | 12.8 | 10.67× |
fibsearch | 425.18 | 4,493 | 10.57× |
heapsort | 14.2 | 142 | 10.00× |
hsearch | 13,638 | 111,181 | 8.15× |
insertionsort | 15.6 | 125.2 | 8.03× |
malloc | 5,316,382 | 42,321,352 | 7.96× |
mcontend | 278.28 | 3,244 | 11.66× |
mergesort | 39 | 443.18 | 11.36× |
qsort | 27 | 277.99 | 10.30× |
skiplist | 8,280 | 100,058 | 12.08× |
tree | 2.6 | 15.4 | 5.92× |
| Memory | Single | Multi | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
cache | 1,117,797 | 2,878,822 | 2.58× |
cachehammer | 285,108 | 4,138,313 | 14.51× |
cacheline | 65.95 | 1,175 | 17.81× |
l1cache | 1,323 | 6,069 | 4.59× |
memcpy | 815.46 | 6,284 | 7.71× |
memrate | 4.94 | 6.29 | 1.27× |
memthrash | 192.15 | 702.81 | 3.66× |
ptr-chase | 85,899,136 | 133,714,908 | 1.56× |
spinmem | 353.39 | 1,002 | 2.84× |
stream | 149.94 | 3,674 | 24.50× |
vm | 243,739 | 293,574 | 1.20× |
Stress-ng Raw Scores
Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance
LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing
LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation
Static Web Server
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