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
2026-10-28T11:05:25.881718

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
0.1332 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
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    614 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    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 virtual machine with dedicated physical cores and local SSD storage, balancing multi-threaded performance and resource density.

    General PurposeStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure D16pds_v5 is an ARM64-based virtual machine featuring 16 dedicated physical cores on an Ampere Altra Neoverse-N1 processor running at 3.0 GHz. It is equipped with 64.0 GB of RAM and a 614 GB local SSD. Performance benchmarks indicate average multi-core capabilities, with a stress-ng multi-core score of 28887.7 and a static web serving throughput of 17.95 GB/sec. However, single-core performance and cryptographic operations represent key tradeoffs, scoring in the bottom tier on Geekbench single-core and PassMark encryption tests. This server offers qualitative cost efficiency for multi-threaded, resource-dense workloads. It is best suited for general-purpose applications, web serving, database operations, and software compilation.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.99Score
    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 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.1 50.00% 50.00% +4.90%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 11,797,257 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1 20.00% 20.00% 0.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,953 2,416 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 140,654 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,333 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.54 10.00% 10.00% -6.00%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,108

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,559

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 11,617
    Compression
    		 90,379
    Encryption
    		 2,591
    Extended Instructions
    		 11,882
    Floating Point Maths
    		 57,207
    Integer Maths
    		 75,042
    Physics
    		 1,962
    Prime Numbers
    		 118
    Single Threaded
    		 1,333
    String Sorting
    		 54,369

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,953
    Database Operations
    		 11,286
    Memory Latency
    		 69
    Memory Read Cached
    		 11,382
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8,889
    Memory Write
    		 15,025

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 102.23 23.47 0.23×
    bitops
    		 108,457 1,733,465 15.98×
    branch
    		 220,883 3,530,118 15.98×
    funccall
    		 1,338 21,378 15.98×
    funcret
    		 20,806 330,997 15.91×
    hash
    		 127,976 2,046,183 15.99×
    intmath
    		 31,613 499,857 15.81×
    nop
    		 173,593 2,776,152 15.99×
    prime
    		 336,464 5,379,300 15.99×
    rotate
    		 96,515 1,541,934 15.98×
    str
    		 514,625 8,223,968 15.98×
    wcs
    		 119,159 1,904,068 15.98×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,908 46,289 15.92×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 523.71 8,303 15.85×
    zlib
    		 30.23 589.15 19.49×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 24,692 236,516 9.58×
    clone
    		 198.82 2,433 12.24×
    context
    		 2,618 41,804 15.97×
    cpu-sched
    		 59.75 1,019 17.05×
    eventfd
    		 53,054 504,506 9.51×
    fault
    		 13,279 150,622 11.34×
    fork
    		 3,770 36,127 9.58×
    getrandom
    		 49,137 785,095 15.98×
    hrtimers
    		 178,831 2,092,733 11.70×
    mprotect
    		 848,048 5,353,008 6.31×
    mtx
    		 10,286,201 748,882,387 72.80×
    munmap
    		 2,708 32,485 12.00×
    null
    		 467,690 7,477,761 15.99×
    pipe
    		 636,748 9,212,403 14.47×
    priv-instr
    		 747,339 10,338,438 13.83×
    resched
    		 5,669,166 2,887,882 0.51×
    switch
    		 81,000 4,939,267 60.98×
    timermix
    		 404,166 6,440,919 15.94×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 4,736 8,844 1.87×
    vdso
    		 46,815,343 747,415,359 15.97×
    vfork
    		 26,481 193,758 7.32×
    yield
    		 14,269,900 14,895,414 1.04×
    zero
    		 2,085,848 33,312,266 15.97×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 1,337 21,339 15.96×
    expmath
    		 240.1 3,835 15.97×
    fma
    		 641,070 10,240,209 15.97×
    fp
    		 103.2 1,648 15.97×
    fractal
    		 6.6 103.01 15.61×
    hyperbolic
    		 244.32 3,903 15.97×
    logmath
    		 293.6 4,691 15.98×
    matrix
    		 5,349 85,401 15.97×
    matrix-3d
    		 492.4 5,244 10.65×
    monte-carlo
    		 193.59 3,095 15.99×
    mpfr
    		 642.01 10,249 15.96×
    powmath
    		 176.53 2,820 15.98×
    trig
    		 329.66 5,264 15.97×
    veccmp
    		 17,166 274,034 15.96×
    vecfp
    		 745.3 11,899 15.97×
    vecmath
    		 3,090 49,370 15.98×
    vecshuf
    		 672.66 10,743 15.97×
    vecwide
    		 18,420 294,120 15.97×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 5.4 86.4 16.00×
    bsearch
    		 258.49 4,129 15.97×
    bubblesort
    		 0.8 12.6 15.75×
    fibsearch
    		 273.46 4,370 15.98×
    heapsort
    		 8.2 131.19 16.00×
    hsearch
    		 4,888 78,150 15.99×
    insertionsort
    		 4.6 73.4 15.96×
    malloc
    		 2,360,112 25,974,827 11.01×
    mcontend
    		 206.86 32,397 156.61×
    mergesort
    		 27.4 445.17 16.25×
    qsort
    		 19.6 311.78 15.91×
    skiplist
    		 5,362 85,620 15.97×
    tree
    		 1 12.79 12.79×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 322,292 483,650 1.50×
    cachehammer
    		 134,629 310,080 2.30×
    cacheline
    		 48.56 759.25 15.64×
    l1cache
    		 182.22 2,905 15.94×
    memcpy
    		 443.76 7,086 15.97×
    memrate
    		 3.15 24.84 7.89×
    memthrash
    		 188.51 323.83 1.72×
    ptr-chase
    		 10,023,035 145,218,414 14.49×
    spinmem
    		 697.17 1,299 1.86×
    stream
    		 64.35 8,551 132.89×
    vm
    		 60,029 925,935 15.42×

    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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