D16ls_v7 by Microsoft Azure

D16ls_v7 is a Dlsv7 family [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1663 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
18,136
(All-cores)
2,180
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D16ls_v7
Name
D16ls_v7
API Reference
Standard_D16ls_v7
Description
Dlsv7 family [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
Dlsv7
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
21
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-04T00:17:49.162505

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1663 USD/h 0.9 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1732 USD/h 0.937 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1732 USD/h 0.937 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1732 USD/h 0.937 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1732 USD/h 0.937 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1732 USD/h 0.937 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1763 USD/h 0.954 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.1842 USD/h 0.997 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1913 USD/h 1.035 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1922 USD/h 1.04 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1996 USD/h 1.08 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2 USD/h 1.082 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.2009 USD/h 1.087 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.2077 USD/h 1.124 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2077 USD/h 1.124 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.2079 USD/h 1.125 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.2079 USD/h 1.125 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.209 USD/h 1.131 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.2134 USD/h 1.155 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.2134 USD/h 1.155 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.216 USD/h 1.169 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.2258 USD/h 1.222 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.2286 USD/h 1.237 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.277 USD/h 1.499 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
6973P-C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
384 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
480 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
480 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, tsc_known_freq, 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
8.3
Scalability
51.88

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

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A compute-focused virtual machine featuring high-frequency Intel Xeon processors, low memory density, and strong single-threaded data processing capabilities.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Microsoft Azure D16ls_v7 is an x86_64 virtual machine from the Dlsv7 family, powered by an Intel Xeon 6973P-C processor running at 4.2 GHz. It provides 16 dedicated vCPUs across 8 physical cores, paired with 32.0 GB of memory, resulting in a low memory-to-core ratio of 2.0 GB per vCPU. The instance lacks local storage and GPUs but supports Premium Storage. Benchmarks show strong single-threaded performance, with gzip compression reaching 35.31 GB/sec and bzip3 decompression at 14.95 GB/sec, alongside top-tier text generation speeds of 350.22 tokens/sec for small language models. Conversely, multi-core stress tests and memory bandwidth align with average tiers. This configuration is qualitatively cost-efficient for compute-bound workloads with minimal memory requirements, such as web serving, lightweight inference, and serialized data processing.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.6Score
      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) 3,449,343 ops/sec 1,930,206 ops/sec 1.8 50.00% 50.00% +34.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 20,022,324 ops/sec 11,792,140 ops/sec 1.7 20.00% 20.00% +11.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,535 2,412 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 173,546 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 1.5 10.00% 10.00% +4.10%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,505 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.5 10.00% 10.00% +4.10%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 30,370
      Compression
      		 340,161
      Encryption
      		 19,675
      Extended Instructions
      		 23,451
      Floating Point Maths
      		 62,852
      Integer Maths
      		 84,037
      Physics
      		 3,739
      Prime Numbers
      		 183
      Single Threaded
      		 3,505
      String Sorting
      		 42,052

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,535
      Database Operations
      		 8,897
      Memory Latency
      		 72
      Memory Read Cached
      		 30,543
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 23,210
      Memory Write
      		 8,572

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 180.63 165.79 0.92×
      bitops
      		 176,388 1,500,279 8.51×
      branch
      		 163,961 2,108,493 12.86×
      funccall
      		 766.52 8,212 10.71×
      funcret
      		 12,923 161,907 12.53×
      hash
      		 174,563 2,043,495 11.71×
      intmath
      		 66,732 657,025 9.85×
      nop
      		 267,968 2,307,987 8.61×
      prime
      		 494,616 5,108,087 10.33×
      rotate
      		 107,336 1,397,114 13.02×
      str
      		 1,070,990 11,187,420 10.45×
      wcs
      		 731,328 6,511,124 8.90×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,469 34,751 10.02×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 836.43 8,462 10.12×
      zlib
      		 58.88 834 14.16×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 35,936 248,834 6.92×
      clone
      		 1,403 8,365 5.96×
      context
      		 5,383 71,507 13.29×
      cpu-sched
      		 57.88 1,060 18.32×
      eventfd
      		 37,484 569,881 15.20×
      fault
      		 27,577 136,432 4.95×
      fork
      		 5,923 41,327 6.98×
      getrandom
      		 60,008 706,318 11.77×
      hrtimers
      		 424,678 1,912,931 4.50×
      mprotect
      		 936,508 5,964,818 6.37×
      mtx
      		 16,509,125 519,811,069 31.49×
      munmap
      		 4,591 36,364 7.92×
      null
      		 883,688 11,481,091 12.99×
      pipe
      		 725,985 10,366,442 14.28×
      priv-instr
      		 865,326 9,574,826 11.06×
      resched
      		 8,988,456 1,271,150 0.14×
      switch
      		 60,610 5,927,046 97.79×
      timermix
      		 223,539 2,993,552 13.39×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 6,675 33,328 4.99×
      tsc
      		 1,024,562 11,673,603 11.39×
      usersyscall
      		 818,439 8,526,782 10.42×
      vdso
      		 116,860,010 1,359,995,294 11.64×
      vfork
      		 27,923 232,294 8.32×
      x86syscall
      		 11,724,047 146,604,664 12.50×
      yield
      		 16,593,834 19,146,692 1.15×
      zero
      		 6,383,400 81,472,754 12.76×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 16,974 174,483 10.28×
      expmath
      		 3,569 41,940 11.75×
      fma
      		 1,225,475 13,480,045 11.00×
      fp
      		 206.14 2,473 12.00×
      fractal
      		 7 77.81 11.12×
      hyperbolic
      		 4,099 48,413 11.81×
      logmath
      		 5,287 66,876 12.65×
      matrix
      		 5,212 48,471 9.30×
      matrix-3d
      		 636.15 4,263 6.70×
      monte-carlo
      		 302.04 4,051 13.41×
      mpfr
      		 1,802 18,082 10.03×
      powmath
      		 2,018 24,598 12.19×
      trig
      		 3,093 29,753 9.62×
      veccmp
      		 28,068 229,947 8.19×
      vecfp
      		 1,633 15,872 9.72×
      vecmath
      		 4,139 44,030 10.64×
      vecshuf
      		 880.76 7,548 8.57×
      vecwide
      		 31,943 297,097 9.30×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 11.4 112 9.82×
      bsearch
      		 359.37 3,607 10.04×
      bubblesort
      		 1.2 9.6 8.00×
      fibsearch
      		 304.03 2,982 9.81×
      heapsort
      		 10 112.2 11.22×
      hsearch
      		 8,976 83,888 9.35×
      insertionsort
      		 13.2 102.4 7.76×
      malloc
      		 2,642,739 28,611,634 10.83×
      mcontend
      		 89.27 2,637 29.54×
      mergesort
      		 31.6 363.19 11.49×
      qsort
      		 24.4 256.99 10.53×
      skiplist
      		 7,294 82,836 11.36×
      tree
      		 1.8 19.2 10.67×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 274,358 1,713,139 6.24×
      cachehammer
      		 164,823 2,132,116 12.94×
      cacheline
      		 51.11 918.08 17.96×
      l1cache
      		 743.45 3,138 4.22×
      memcpy
      		 696.35 5,726 8.22×
      memrate
      		 0.15 2.12 14.13×
      memthrash
      		 168.41 592.75 3.52×
      ptr-chase
      		 32,283,417 180,028,526 5.58×
      spinmem
      		 333.19 774.7 2.33×
      stream
      		 4.91 398.28 81.12×
      vm
      		 165,618 293,699 1.77×

      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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