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
API Reference Object
-
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
2026-10-17T07:26:07.713074

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 1,917,050 ops/sec 1.8 50.00% 50.00% +34.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 20,022,324 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 1.7 20.00% 20.00% +11.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,535 2,417 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 173,546 MB/sec 108,361 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
      		 30370
      Compression
      		 340161
      Encryption
      		 19675
      Extended Instructions
      		 23451
      Floating Point Maths
      		 62852
      Integer Maths
      		 84037
      Physics
      		 3739
      Prime Numbers
      		 183
      Single Threaded
      		 3505
      String Sorting
      		 42052

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2535
      Database Operations
      		 8897
      Memory Latency
      		 72
      Memory Read Cached
      		 30543
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 23210
      Memory Write
      		 8572

      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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