D16pds_v6 by Microsoft Azure

D16pds_v6 is a Dpdsv6 family [ARM processor] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 945 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0981 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
945 GB Storage
Spare SCore
33,160
(All-cores)
2,074
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D16pds_v6
Name
D16pds_v6
API Reference
Standard_D16pds_v6
Description
Dpdsv6 family [ARM processor] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs
Family
Dpdsv6
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-05T11:24:17.317039

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0981 USD/h 0.483 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1356 USD/h 0.734 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1356 USD/h 0.734 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1356 USD/h 0.734 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1356 USD/h 0.734 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.3204 USD/h 0.734 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1589 USD/h 0.782 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1493 USD/h 0.808 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1508 USD/h 0.816 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1508 USD/h 0.816 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1517 USD/h 0.821 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2693 USD/h 0.821 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1768 USD/h 0.83 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.172 USD/h 0.846 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1578 USD/h 0.854 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.1587 USD/h 0.859 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1587 USD/h 0.859 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1666 USD/h 0.859 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1623 USD/h 0.878 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1623 USD/h 0.878 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1784 USD/h 0.878 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.163 USD/h 0.882 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.163 USD/h 0.882 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1645 USD/h 0.89 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.1656 USD/h 0.896 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1691 USD/h 0.915 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1859 USD/h 0.915 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1745 USD/h 0.944 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.175 USD/h 0.947 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1765 USD/h 0.955 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.1765 USD/h 0.955 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.1765 USD/h 0.955 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.1765 USD/h 0.955 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.177 USD/h 0.958 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.1778 USD/h 0.962 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1868 USD/h 1.011 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1903 USD/h 1.03 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.1942 USD/h 1.051 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2049 USD/h 1.109 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.2118 USD/h 1.146 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.2158 USD/h 1.168 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.2471 USD/h 1.337 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.2524 USD/h 1.366 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.2524 USD/h 1.366 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
3.4 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Manufacturer
Microsoft
CPU Family
ARM
CPU Model
Neoverse-N2
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
128 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
128 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, atomics, fphp, asimdhp, cpuid, asimdrdm, jscvt, fcma, lrcpc, dcpop, sha3, sm3, sm4, asimddp, sha512, sve, asimdfhm, uscat, ilrcpc, flagm, ssbs, sb, paca, pacg, dcpodp, sve2, sveaes, svebitperm, svesha3, svesm4, flagm2, frint, svei8mm, svebf16, i8mm, bf16
Ecpus
16
Scalability
100

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
    945 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 945 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    An ARM64-powered virtual machine featuring dedicated physical cores, top-tier memory performance, and high-speed local NVMe SSD storage.

    General PurposeStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure D16pds_v6 is an ARM64-based general-purpose virtual machine from the Dpdsv6 family, running on Microsoft Hyper-V. It features a Microsoft Neoverse-N2 processor with 16 dedicated physical cores and 16 vCPUs clocked at 3.4 GHz, paired with 64.0 GB of RAM and a bundled 945 GB local NVMe SSD. The instance delivers top-tier memory performance, with Passmark memory scores in the top 10% and strong large-block memory bandwidth. Most compute and database benchmarks, such as Redis SET operations and Geekbench multi-core tests, align with average tier performance. The dedicated core architecture and integrated high-speed local storage offer a cost-effective, balanced profile for multi-threaded applications. This server is highly suitable for database hosting, web serving, software compilation, and general-purpose enterprise workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.5Score
    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) 2,793,876 ops/sec 1,937,246 ops/sec 1.5 50.00% 50.00% +22.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 18,600,771 ops/sec 11,803,344 ops/sec 1.6 20.00% 20.00% +9.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 3,241 2,409 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 400,774 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 3.6 10.00% 10.00% +14.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,882 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,683

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 14,755

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 14,759
    Compression
    		 109,794
    Encryption
    		 3,013
    Extended Instructions
    		 14,310
    Floating Point Maths
    		 84,765
    Integer Maths
    		 100,923
    Physics
    		 5,178
    Prime Numbers
    		 226
    Single Threaded
    		 1,882
    String Sorting
    		 82,158

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 3,241
    Database Operations
    		 19,652
    Memory Latency
    		 54
    Memory Read Cached
    		 25,407
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 18,971
    Memory Write
    		 25,734

    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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