D16plds_v5 by Microsoft Azure

D16plds_v5 is a DPLDSv5 family [ARM processor] [Low Memory] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 614 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0724 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
614 GB Storage
Spare SCore
28,883
(All-cores)
1,823
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D16plds_v5
Name
D16plds_v5
API Reference
Standard_D16plds_v5
Description
DPLDSv5 family [ARM processor] [Low Memory] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs
Family
DPLDSv5
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
21
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-31T11:55:38.590728

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0724 USD/h 0.392 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.392 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.392 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1135 USD/h 0.614 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1135 USD/h 0.614 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1135 USD/h 0.614 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1135 USD/h 0.614 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1298 USD/h 0.614 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1231 USD/h 0.666 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1253 USD/h 0.678 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1282 USD/h 0.694 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.129 USD/h 0.698 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1316 USD/h 0.712 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1316 USD/h 0.712 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1331 USD/h 0.72 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1175 USD/h 0.736 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1362 USD/h 0.737 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1362 USD/h 0.737 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1368 USD/h 0.74 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1419 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1449 USD/h 0.784 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1449 USD/h 0.784 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1449 USD/h 0.784 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1493 USD/h 0.808 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
15.8
Scalability
98.75

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
    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 ARM-powered virtual machine with dedicated physical cores and local SSD storage, optimized for multi-threaded, low-memory compute workloads.

    Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure D16plds_v5 is an ARM-based virtual machine featuring 16 dedicated physical cores powered by an Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 processor running at 3.0 GHz. It is configured with 32.0 GB of memory, providing a low memory-to-core ratio of 2.0 GB per vCPU, and includes a bundled 614 GB local SSD. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this instance delivers average multi-core performance, as evidenced by a Geekbench multi-core score of 9656.0 and a Redis SET throughput of 20.65 million operations per second. However, single-core capabilities and cryptographic operations are relatively weak. Lacking a GPU, this server is designed for multi-threaded, low-memory workloads such as static web serving, software compilation, and lightweight database tasks where dedicated physical cores and local storage are prioritized over high memory density.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1Score
    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) 2,068,964 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 1.1 50.00% 50.00% +4.90%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 11,915,267 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 1 20.00% 20.00% 0.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,908 2,416 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 147,303 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1.4 10.00% 10.00% +3.40%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,331 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.54 10.00% 10.00% -6.00%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,092

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,656

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 11,595
    Compression
    		 90,222
    Encryption
    		 2,592
    Extended Instructions
    		 11,874
    Floating Point Maths
    		 57,154
    Integer Maths
    		 75,011
    Physics
    		 1,875
    Prime Numbers
    		 117
    Single Threaded
    		 1,331
    String Sorting
    		 54,305

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,908
    Database Operations
    		 10,832
    Memory Latency
    		 70
    Memory Read Cached
    		 11,375
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8,878
    Memory Write
    		 14,996

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 77.52 22.7 0.29×
    bitops
    		 108,467 1,732,843 15.98×
    branch
    		 220,891 3,530,410 15.98×
    funccall
    		 1,338 21,369 15.97×
    funcret
    		 20,791 330,478 15.90×
    hash
    		 128,099 2,047,169 15.98×
    intmath
    		 30,526 503,257 16.49×
    nop
    		 173,466 2,769,181 15.96×
    prime
    		 336,759 5,373,467 15.96×
    rotate
    		 96,531 1,541,280 15.97×
    str
    		 513,840 8,220,380 16.00×
    wcs
    		 119,170 1,903,513 15.97×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,908 46,291 15.92×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 524.52 8,371 15.96×
    zlib
    		 33.34 557.38 16.72×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 24,164 236,580 9.79×
    clone
    		 202.66 2,307 11.38×
    context
    		 2,617 41,793 15.97×
    cpu-sched
    		 63.48 1,037 16.34×
    eventfd
    		 52,381 510,946 9.75×
    fault
    		 13,659 155,930 11.42×
    fork
    		 3,953 37,492 9.48×
    getrandom
    		 49,193 785,095 15.96×
    hrtimers
    		 291,294 2,331,937 8.01×
    mprotect
    		 830,281 5,292,343 6.37×
    mtx
    		 9,350,781 631,322,409 67.52×
    munmap
    		 2,655 33,477 12.61×
    null
    		 468,446 7,479,279 15.97×
    pipe
    		 990,203 9,116,199 9.21×
    priv-instr
    		 738,200 9,996,343 13.54×
    resched
    		 5,822,948 2,990,260 0.51×
    switch
    		 100,038 4,915,568 49.14×
    timermix
    		 409,300 6,469,871 15.81×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 4,931 10,215 2.07×
    vdso
    		 46,822,635 747,650,560 15.97×
    vfork
    		 26,243 191,266 7.29×
    yield
    		 14,135,814 13,830,554 0.98×
    zero
    		 2,085,101 33,287,548 15.96×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 1,336 21,350 15.98×
    expmath
    		 240.12 3,834 15.97×
    fma
    		 641,084 10,231,425 15.96×
    fp
    		 103.17 1,649 15.98×
    fractal
    		 6.6 103.01 15.61×
    hyperbolic
    		 244.35 3,900 15.96×
    logmath
    		 293.68 4,691 15.97×
    matrix
    		 5,349 85,412 15.97×
    matrix-3d
    		 483.81 5,329 11.02×
    monte-carlo
    		 193.76 3,098 15.99×
    mpfr
    		 642.03 10,256 15.97×
    powmath
    		 176.52 2,820 15.98×
    trig
    		 329.62 5,266 15.98×
    veccmp
    		 17,153 274,230 15.99×
    vecfp
    		 745.23 11,908 15.98×
    vecmath
    		 3,090 49,365 15.97×
    vecshuf
    		 672.31 10,748 15.99×
    vecwide
    		 18,400 293,985 15.98×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 5.4 86.39 16.00×
    bsearch
    		 258.42 4,128 15.97×
    bubblesort
    		 0.8 12.6 15.75×
    fibsearch
    		 273.6 4,369 15.97×
    heapsort
    		 8.2 131.79 16.07×
    hsearch
    		 4,915 78,437 15.96×
    insertionsort
    		 4.6 73.6 16.00×
    malloc
    		 2,572,033 25,423,066 9.88×
    mcontend
    		 201.91 32,114 159.05×
    mergesort
    		 28 444.57 15.88×
    qsort
    		 19.6 312.78 15.96×
    skiplist
    		 5,366 85,624 15.96×
    tree
    		 1 12.79 12.79×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 348,244 544,827 1.56×
    cachehammer
    		 141,263 457,135 3.24×
    cacheline
    		 42.35 732.88 17.31×
    l1cache
    		 182.18 2,905 15.95×
    memcpy
    		 443.75 7,087 15.97×
    memrate
    		 3.15 24.93 7.91×
    memthrash
    		 129.83 329.99 2.54×
    ptr-chase
    		 13,117,608 156,682,915 11.94×
    spinmem
    		 780.17 1,574 2.02×
    stream
    		 67.32 8,600 127.75×
    vm
    		 58,988 920,966 15.61×

    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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