D16pds_v5 by Microsoft Azure

D16pds_v5 is a DPDSv5 family [ARM processor] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 614 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0893 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
614 GB Storage
Spare SCore
28,888
(All-cores)
1,822
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D16pds_v5
Name
D16pds_v5
API Reference
Standard_D16pds_v5
Description
DPDSv5 family [ARM processor] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs
Family
DPDSv5
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
21
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-13T10:42:22.620586

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0893 USD/h 0.483 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.483 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.483 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1336 USD/h 0.723 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1336 USD/h 0.723 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1336 USD/h 0.723 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1336 USD/h 0.723 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1528 USD/h 0.723 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1419 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1489 USD/h 0.806 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1493 USD/h 0.808 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1511 USD/h 0.818 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1211 USD/h 0.834 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1567 USD/h 0.848 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1567 USD/h 0.848 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1602 USD/h 0.867 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1604 USD/h 0.868 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1611 USD/h 0.872 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1611 USD/h 0.872 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1671 USD/h 0.904 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1685 USD/h 0.912 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.173 USD/h 0.936 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1774 USD/h 0.96 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1841 USD/h 0.996 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
3 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Manufacturer
Ampere
CPU Family
ARMv8
CPU Model
Neoverse-N1
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, atomics, fphp, asimdhp, cpuid, asimdrdm, lrcpc, dcpop, asimddp
Ecpus
15.9
Scalability
99.38

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An ARM64-powered virtual machine featuring dedicated physical cores and local storage for balanced multi-threaded workloads and database operations.

    General PurposeStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure D16pds_v5 is an ARM64-based virtual machine from the DPDSv5 family, utilizing a 16-core Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 processor running at 3.0 GHz. It features 64.0 GB of RAM, a 614 GB local disk, and runs on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. Performance benchmarks indicate average multi-core capabilities, with a stress-ng multi-core score of 28887.7 and a PassMark database operations score of 11285.91. However, single-core performance represents a tradeoff, with Geekbench single-core and single-threaded bzip3 decompression scoring in the bottom 25%. The instance offers qualitative cost efficiency through dedicated physical cores and a balanced resource profile. It is suitable for multi-threaded workloads, software compilation, database operations, and static web serving, but less effective for single-threaded or prompt-processing tasks.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.965Score
    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) 1,975,564 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 1.03 50.00% 50.00% +1.49%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 11,797,257 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 1.01 20.00% 20.00% +0.20%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,953 2,418 0.808 10.00% 10.00% -2.11%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 140,654 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.66%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,333 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.564 10.00% 10.00% -5.57%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,108

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,559

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 11617
    Compression
    		 90379
    Encryption
    		 2591
    Extended Instructions
    		 11882
    Floating Point Maths
    		 57207
    Integer Maths
    		 75042
    Physics
    		 1962
    Prime Numbers
    		 118
    Single Threaded
    		 1333
    String Sorting
    		 54369

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1953
    Database Operations
    		 11286
    Memory Latency
    		 69
    Memory Read Cached
    		 11382
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8889
    Memory Write
    		 15025

    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

    Alternatives

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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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    D8pds_v5 832 GiB0
    D32pds_v5 32128 GiB0
    D48pds_v5 48192 GiB0
    D64pds_v5 64208 GiB0

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