D16lds_v6 by Microsoft Azure

D16lds_v6 is a Dldsv6 family [Low Memory] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 945 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1152 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
945 GB Storage
Spare SCore
15,987
(All-cores)
1,951
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D16lds_v6
Name
D16lds_v6
API Reference
Standard_D16lds_v6
Description
Dldsv6 family [Low Memory] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
Dldsv6
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-28T23:37:32.048696

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.1626 USD/h 0.88 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1632 USD/h 0.883 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1632 USD/h 0.883 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1632 USD/h 0.883 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1632 USD/h 0.883 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1632 USD/h 0.883 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.186 USD/h 0.883 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.883 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.883 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1746 USD/h 0.945 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.175 USD/h 0.947 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1785 USD/h 0.966 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1785 USD/h 0.966 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1794 USD/h 0.971 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1842 USD/h 0.997 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1842 USD/h 0.997 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1842 USD/h 0.997 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.1861 USD/h 1.007 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1861 USD/h 1.007 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1861 USD/h 1.007 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.1863 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.1863 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1863 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.1876 USD/h 1.015 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1879 USD/h 1.017 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1675 USD/h 1.049 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1939 USD/h 1.049 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1939 USD/h 1.049 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1957 USD/h 1.059 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1957 USD/h 1.059 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1974 USD/h 1.068 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.2007 USD/h 1.086 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.2025 USD/h 1.096 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.2025 USD/h 1.096 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.2033 USD/h 1.1 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.2053 USD/h 1.111 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.2053 USD/h 1.111 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.2088 USD/h 1.13 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.212 USD/h 1.147 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1152 USD/h 1.152 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.2129 USD/h 1.152 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.2129 USD/h 1.152 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.217 USD/h 1.174 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.217 USD/h 1.174 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.2243 USD/h 1.214 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2299 USD/h 1.244 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.2332 USD/h 1.262 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.2419 USD/h 1.309 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.2513 USD/h 1.36 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.2519 USD/h 1.363 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.2633 USD/h 1.425 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.2844 USD/h 1.539 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.3031 USD/h 1.64 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.3031 USD/h 1.64 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.3267 USD/h 1.768 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
4.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8573C
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
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
260 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
260 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, user_shstk, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, waitpkg, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, serialize, tsxldtrk, ibt, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
8.2
Scalability
51.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    945 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 945 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A compute-optimized virtual machine featuring dedicated high-frequency processors, integrated NVMe SSD storage, and a low memory-to-core ratio for efficient batch processing.

    Compute OptimizedStorage & Database

    The Microsoft Azure D16lds_v6 is a compute-optimized virtual machine from the Dldsv6 family, powered by a 16-vCPU Intel Xeon 8573C processor running at 4.2 GHz. It features 32.0 GB of RAM, establishing a low memory-to-core ratio of 2.0 GB per vCPU, and includes a bundled 945 GB NVMe SSD. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, the instance supports advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and Intel AMX. Benchmarks show strong single-core performance, with a Geekbench single-core score of 2163.0 and top-tier text generation speeds of 396.44 tokens/sec for small LLM models. However, its low memory density presents a tradeoff for memory-heavy applications. This instance is highly cost-efficient for compute-heavy, low-memory workloads, making it an excellent fit for software compilation, web serving, text processing, and localized database operations.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.5Score
    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) 3,122,744 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.6 50.00% 50.00% +26.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 15,549,463 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1.3 20.00% 20.00% +5.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,527 2,416 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 247,556 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 2.3 10.00% 10.00% +8.70%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,922 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,163

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 13,256

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 26,707
    Compression
    		 275,752
    Encryption
    		 16,892
    Extended Instructions
    		 23,455
    Floating Point Maths
    		 54,263
    Integer Maths
    		 76,548
    Physics
    		 3,639
    Prime Numbers
    		 158
    Single Threaded
    		 2,922
    String Sorting
    		 38,339

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,527
    Database Operations
    		 9,598
    Memory Latency
    		 57
    Memory Read Cached
    		 26,734
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10,568
    Memory Write
    		 9,953

    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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