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
13,869
(All-cores)
1,794
(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
2026-10-25T13:14:46.898124

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
0.1717 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
48.12

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 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

      1.3Score
      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 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.3 50.00% 50.00% +14.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 13,110,193 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1.1 20.00% 20.00% +1.90%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,188 2,416 0.92 10.00% 10.00% -0.83%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 225,119 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 2.1 10.00% 10.00% +7.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,644 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 23,185
      Compression
      		 242,550
      Encryption
      		 14,690
      Extended Instructions
      		 18,844
      Floating Point Maths
      		 46,840
      Integer Maths
      		 66,278
      Physics
      		 3,228
      Prime Numbers
      		 141
      Single Threaded
      		 2,644
      String Sorting
      		 33,265

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,188
      Database Operations
      		 8,398
      Memory Latency
      		 72
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23,882
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,193
      Memory Write
      		 9,246

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 232.61 197.69 0.85×
      bitops
      		 135,114 1,251,070 9.26×
      branch
      		 127,802 1,510,058 11.82×
      funccall
      		 681.59 6,778 9.95×
      funcret
      		 11,207 137,595 12.28×
      hash
      		 159,674 1,797,793 11.26×
      intmath
      		 60,458 530,809 8.78×
      nop
      		 240,020 1,469,623 6.12×
      prime
      		 434,003 4,006,103 9.23×
      rotate
      		 92,553 742,065 8.02×
      str
      		 781,523 9,893,880 12.66×
      wcs
      		 625,341 5,772,768 9.23×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,057 26,850 8.78×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 739.48 7,521 10.17×
      zlib
      		 31.08 687.82 22.13×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 37,670 254,728 6.76×
      clone
      		 1,388 8,243 5.94×
      context
      		 4,898 61,469 12.55×
      cpu-sched
      		 64.2 1,030 16.04×
      eventfd
      		 38,450 569,140 14.80×
      fault
      		 20,058 128,280 6.40×
      fork
      		 5,376 38,272 7.12×
      getrandom
      		 53,470 616,633 11.53×
      hrtimers
      		 202,615 2,216,199 10.94×
      mprotect
      		 888,931 4,818,338 5.42×
      mtx
      		 13,309,395 461,675,784 34.69×
      munmap
      		 4,219 35,397 8.39×
      null
      		 794,689 9,559,871 12.03×
      pipe
      		 658,825 10,337,754 15.69×
      priv-instr
      		 783,797 8,041,871 10.26×
      resched
      		 6,863,801 973,130 0.14×
      switch
      		 53,755 4,415,918 82.15×
      timermix
      		 227,668 2,869,848 12.61×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 7,632 33,545 4.40×
      tsc
      		 837,433 9,806,578 11.71×
      usersyscall
      		 654,901 6,980,572 10.66×
      vdso
      		 97,983,543 1,099,331,063 11.22×
      vfork
      		 25,688 241,334 9.39×
      x86syscall
      		 9,602,066 123,921,781 12.91×
      yield
      		 13,562,238 15,883,168 1.17×
      zero
      		 5,313,250 66,302,047 12.48×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 14,758 146,472 9.92×
      expmath
      		 3,215 35,677 11.10×
      fma
      		 1,173,697 11,897,478 10.14×
      fp
      		 195.34 2,126 10.88×
      fractal
      		 5.8 65.4 11.28×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,691 40,745 11.04×
      logmath
      		 4,756 57,891 12.17×
      matrix
      		 4,682 41,155 8.79×
      matrix-3d
      		 703.85 5,025 7.14×
      monte-carlo
      		 279.19 3,398 12.17×
      mpfr
      		 1,598 14,215 8.90×
      powmath
      		 1,807 20,903 11.57×
      trig
      		 2,446 24,615 10.06×
      veccmp
      		 23,036 205,229 8.91×
      vecfp
      		 1,395 13,443 9.64×
      vecmath
      		 3,609 38,894 10.78×
      vecshuf
      		 754.46 6,620 8.77×
      vecwide
      		 32,474 296,089 9.12×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 8.2 73.6 8.98×
      bsearch
      		 259.7 2,616 10.07×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 9.6 12.00×
      fibsearch
      		 277.57 2,681 9.66×
      heapsort
      		 9.2 95.2 10.35×
      hsearch
      		 7,755 69,797 9.00×
      insertionsort
      		 11.8 79.8 6.76×
      malloc
      		 2,634,375 27,728,547 10.53×
      mcontend
      		 118.26 2,730 23.09×
      mergesort
      		 27.8 308.79 11.11×
      qsort
      		 20.2 215.39 10.66×
      skiplist
      		 4,982 60,559 12.16×
      tree
      		 1.6 19.2 12.00×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 309,946 1,204,092 3.88×
      cachehammer
      		 216,121 2,635,591 12.19×
      cacheline
      		 58.1 947.84 16.31×
      l1cache
      		 993.75 2,940 2.96×
      memcpy
      		 405.05 3,002 7.41×
      memrate
      		 0.13 1.89 14.54×
      memthrash
      		 146.79 652.05 4.44×
      ptr-chase
      		 34,354,398 310,815,929 9.05×
      spinmem
      		 316.39 906.19 2.86×
      stream
      		 6.77 844.51 124.74×
      vm
      		 177,114 294,101 1.66×

      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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