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D16nls_v6 by Microsoft Azure

D16nls_v6 is a Dnlv6 family [Network Optimized] [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 0.1184 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
13869
(All-cores)
1794
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D16nls_v6
Name
D16nls_v6
API Reference
Standard_D16nls_v6
Description
Dnlv6 family [Network Optimized] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
Dnlv6
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
18
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-26T19:16:39.801576

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1674 USD/h 0.907 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1676 USD/h 0.907 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1676 USD/h 0.907 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1676 USD/h 0.907 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1676 USD/h 0.907 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1676 USD/h 0.907 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1913 USD/h 0.907 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.907 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.907 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.18 USD/h 0.974 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1831 USD/h 0.991 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1831 USD/h 0.991 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1844 USD/h 0.998 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1892 USD/h 1.024 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1894 USD/h 1.025 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.1909 USD/h 1.033 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.1909 USD/h 1.033 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1909 USD/h 1.033 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1909 USD/h 1.033 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1926 USD/h 1.042 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.1927 USD/h 1.043 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.129 USD/h 1.075 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1987 USD/h 1.075 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.1988 USD/h 1.076 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.2003 USD/h 1.084 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2012 USD/h 1.089 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.2012 USD/h 1.089 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.2029 USD/h 1.098 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.2081 USD/h 1.126 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.2096 USD/h 1.134 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2101 USD/h 1.137 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.2101 USD/h 1.137 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.2103 USD/h 1.138 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.211 USD/h 1.142 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.211 USD/h 1.142 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.2146 USD/h 1.161 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.2179 USD/h 1.179 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1184 USD/h 1.184 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.2188 USD/h 1.184 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.2188 USD/h 1.184 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.2219 USD/h 1.201 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.2255 USD/h 1.22 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2364 USD/h 1.279 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.2397 USD/h 1.297 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.2397 USD/h 1.297 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.2482 USD/h 1.343 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.2576 USD/h 1.394 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.2584 USD/h 1.398 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.2735 USD/h 1.48 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.2931 USD/h 1.586 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.3116 USD/h 1.686 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.3118 USD/h 1.687 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.335 USD/h 1.813 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, 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
7.7
Scalability
96.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
    • 0 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A network-optimized, low-memory compute instance featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors with advanced matrix extensions for efficient vector operations.

    Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure D16nls_v6 is an x86_64 virtual machine from the network-optimized Dnlv6 family, powered by a 16-vCPU Intel Xeon 8573C processor running at 4.2 GHz. It features 32.0 GB of system memory, providing a low memory-to-core ratio of 2.0 GB per vCPU, and lacks local storage or integrated GPUs. Performance benchmarks place the instance in the average tier for general compute, with a stress-ng multi-core score of 13869.2 and a static web serving throughput of 25.91 GB/sec. However, its support for Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) enables top-tier text generation speeds of 366.1 tokens per second for small LLM models. This server is suited for network-optimized applications, web serving, and compute-bound tasks with low memory requirements.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.25Score
    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) 2,404,574 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 1.27 50.00% 50.00% +12.70%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 13,110,193 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 1.14 20.00% 20.00% +2.66%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,188 2,411 0.908 10.00% 10.00% -0.96%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 225,119 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 2.1 10.00% 10.00% +7.70%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,644 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.12 10.00% 10.00% +1.14%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 23185
    Compression
    		 242550
    Encryption
    		 14690
    Extended Instructions
    		 18844
    Floating Point Maths
    		 46840
    Integer Maths
    		 66278
    Physics
    		 3228
    Prime Numbers
    		 141
    Single Threaded
    		 2644
    String Sorting
    		 33265

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2188
    Database Operations
    		 8398
    Memory Latency
    		 72
    Memory Read Cached
    		 23882
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10193
    Memory Write
    		 9246

    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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    D64nls_v6 64128 GiB0
    D96nls_v6 96192 GiB0

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