D16ns_v6 by Microsoft Azure

D16ns_v6 is a Dnv6 family [Network Optimized] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1404 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
15,861
(All-cores)
1,935
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D16ns_v6
Name
D16ns_v6
API Reference
Standard_D16ns_v6
Description
Dnv6 family [Network Optimized] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
Dnv6
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
13.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-26T07:14:15.950434

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2056 USD/h 1.114 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2059 USD/h 1.114 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.2059 USD/h 1.114 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.2059 USD/h 1.114 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.2059 USD/h 1.114 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2349 USD/h 1.114 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.2146 USD/h 1.161 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 1.161 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 1.161 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.2188 USD/h 1.184 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.2264 USD/h 1.225 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.2293 USD/h 1.241 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.2293 USD/h 1.241 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.2293 USD/h 1.241 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.2367 USD/h 1.281 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.2402 USD/h 1.3 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.2439 USD/h 1.32 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.2439 USD/h 1.32 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.2439 USD/h 1.32 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.2439 USD/h 1.32 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2471 USD/h 1.337 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.2471 USD/h 1.337 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.2491 USD/h 1.348 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.2491 USD/h 1.348 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.2526 USD/h 1.367 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.2223 USD/h 1.392 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.2572 USD/h 1.392 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1404 USD/h 1.404 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.2595 USD/h 1.404 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.2595 USD/h 1.404 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.2635 USD/h 1.426 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.2646 USD/h 1.432 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.2676 USD/h 1.448 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.2676 USD/h 1.448 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2683 USD/h 1.452 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.2683 USD/h 1.452 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.2713 USD/h 1.468 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2903 USD/h 1.571 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.2944 USD/h 1.593 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.2944 USD/h 1.593 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.2944 USD/h 1.593 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.2944 USD/h 1.593 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.2985 USD/h 1.615 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.3005 USD/h 1.626 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.3171 USD/h 1.716 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.319 USD/h 1.726 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.3345 USD/h 1.81 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.3526 USD/h 1.908 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.3827 USD/h 2.071 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.3829 USD/h 2.072 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.3907 USD/h 2.114 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.4117 USD/h 2.228 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.5352 USD/h 2.896 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
8.2
Scalability
51.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 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 dedicated general-purpose virtual machine featuring high-frequency Intel Xeon processors, balanced memory allocation, and optimized network performance for enterprise workloads.

      General PurposeCompute Optimized

      Microsoft Azure D16ns_v6 is a general-purpose, network-optimized virtual machine from the Dnv6 family. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8573C processor running at 4.2 GHz, it provides 16 dedicated vCPUs across 8 physical cores and 64.0 GB of system memory. While it lacks local storage, it is Premium Storage capable and features no GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks show strong capabilities in single-threaded gzip compression and text processing, alongside top-tier text generation speeds for small language models. General compute, memory bandwidth, and database operations perform in the average tier. This instance is suited for general-purpose workloads, web serving, software compilation, and lightweight inference tasks where dedicated CPU allocation is required but local storage is not.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.4Score
      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) 2,766,536 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.5 50.00% 50.00% +22.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 14,908,779 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1.2 20.00% 20.00% +3.70%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,289 2,416 0.96 10.00% 10.00% -0.41%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 254,897 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 2.3 10.00% 10.00% +8.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,914 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,915

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 11,276

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 26,468
      Compression
      		 275,949
      Encryption
      		 16,796
      Extended Instructions
      		 22,531
      Floating Point Maths
      		 53,786
      Integer Maths
      		 76,079
      Physics
      		 3,669
      Prime Numbers
      		 154
      Single Threaded
      		 2,914
      String Sorting
      		 38,001

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,289
      Database Operations
      		 9,401
      Memory Latency
      		 69
      Memory Read Cached
      		 26,322
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9,825
      Memory Write
      		 8,937

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 268.45 228.51 0.85×
      bitops
      		 149,731 1,435,538 9.59×
      branch
      		 140,880 1,737,050 12.33×
      funccall
      		 758.69 7,817 10.30×
      funcret
      		 12,532 160,770 12.83×
      hash
      		 178,888 2,071,913 11.58×
      intmath
      		 65,966 606,582 9.20×
      nop
      		 265,980 1,684,437 6.33×
      prime
      		 476,850 4,458,564 9.35×
      rotate
      		 99,967 834,245 8.35×
      str
      		 902,576 11,184,242 12.39×
      wcs
      		 711,088 6,589,302 9.27×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,410 31,209 9.15×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 822.05 8,570 10.43×
      zlib
      		 57.67 772.65 13.40×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 39,895 277,773 6.96×
      clone
      		 1,482 11,274 7.61×
      context
      		 5,344 70,260 13.15×
      cpu-sched
      		 59.94 1,061 17.70×
      eventfd
      		 37,789 614,946 16.27×
      fault
      		 23,160 146,036 6.31×
      fork
      		 6,033 42,502 7.05×
      getrandom
      		 59,231 705,249 11.91×
      hrtimers
      		 143,662 2,311,467 16.09×
      mprotect
      		 982,729 5,370,423 5.46×
      mtx
      		 17,469,424 458,472,289 26.24×
      munmap
      		 4,638 36,051 7.77×
      null
      		 871,417 10,859,876 12.46×
      pipe
      		 703,304 13,363,852 19.00×
      priv-instr
      		 859,462 8,911,267 10.37×
      resched
      		 7,718,822 1,254,279 0.16×
      switch
      		 75,900 4,983,902 65.66×
      timermix
      		 250,858 3,123,744 12.45×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 8,996 34,451 3.83×
      tsc
      		 913,948 10,928,998 11.96×
      usersyscall
      		 714,970 7,771,486 10.87×
      vdso
      		 106,703,524 1,227,850,245 11.51×
      vfork
      		 27,101 251,808 9.29×
      x86syscall
      		 10,524,172 139,762,257 13.28×
      yield
      		 15,051,772 16,771,706 1.11×
      zero
      		 5,831,786 74,071,502 12.70×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 16,306 168,791 10.35×
      expmath
      		 3,544 41,238 11.64×
      fma
      		 1,315,664 13,650,549 10.38×
      fp
      		 201.16 2,466 12.26×
      fractal
      		 6.6 75.2 11.39×
      hyperbolic
      		 4,088 47,081 11.52×
      logmath
      		 5,231 65,946 12.61×
      matrix
      		 5,154 46,272 8.98×
      matrix-3d
      		 726.71 5,401 7.43×
      monte-carlo
      		 301.36 3,922 13.01×
      mpfr
      		 1,760 15,924 9.05×
      powmath
      		 1,970 23,487 11.92×
      trig
      		 2,687 27,836 10.36×
      veccmp
      		 25,104 228,428 9.10×
      vecfp
      		 1,551 15,373 9.91×
      vecmath
      		 3,928 43,376 11.04×
      vecshuf
      		 827.37 7,446 9.00×
      vecwide
      		 37,037 347,429 9.38×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 9 84 9.33×
      bsearch
      		 289.99 3,034 10.46×
      bubblesort
      		 1 9.6 9.60×
      fibsearch
      		 308.03 3,111 10.10×
      heapsort
      		 10 109.4 10.94×
      hsearch
      		 8,569 80,891 9.44×
      insertionsort
      		 12.8 88.4 6.91×
      malloc
      		 2,864,444 34,073,052 11.90×
      mcontend
      		 114.46 2,919 25.50×
      mergesort
      		 30.8 346.79 11.26×
      qsort
      		 22 244.39 11.11×
      skiplist
      		 5,470 68,023 12.44×
      tree
      		 1.8 19.2 10.67×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 343,404 1,236,021 3.60×
      cachehammer
      		 224,385 2,783,290 12.40×
      cacheline
      		 67.93 1,082 15.92×
      l1cache
      		 1,080 3,324 3.08×
      memcpy
      		 446 3,411 7.65×
      memrate
      		 0.13 2.01 15.46×
      memthrash
      		 151.55 671.7 4.43×
      ptr-chase
      		 35,869,908 355,198,997 9.90×
      spinmem
      		 337.78 1,047 3.10×
      stream
      		 6.81 868.5 127.53×
      vm
      		 196,305 294,233 1.50×

      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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