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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
28883
(All-cores)
1823
(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
2026-08-01T22:59:53.044030

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
0.0972 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
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 ARM-powered 16-core server with bundled local storage, optimized for multi-threaded workloads, web serving, and database operations.

    Compute OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure D16plds_v5 is an ARM-based virtual machine from the DPLDSv5 family, featuring 16 dedicated physical cores on an Ampere Altra Neoverse-N1 processor running at 3.0 GHz. It is configured with 32.0 GB of RAM and includes 614 GB of local storage. The server delivers average multi-core performance, as shown by its Geekbench multi-core score of 9656.0 and a stress-ng multi-core score of 28883.33. However, single-core performance represents a tradeoff, with Geekbench single-core and single-threaded bzip3 decompression scoring in the bottom 25%. Lacking GPU acceleration, it is not suited for heavy AI generation, but it performs well in multi-threaded tasks. This instance is best suited for software compilation, static web serving, Redis key-value stores, and database operations where dedicated ARM cores and local storage provide efficient resource 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 1,896,415 ops/sec 1.09 50.00% 50.00% +4.40%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 11,915,267 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 1.03 20.00% 20.00% +0.59%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,908 2,411 0.791 10.00% 10.00% -2.32%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 147,303 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 1.37 10.00% 10.00% +3.20%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,331 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.563 10.00% 10.00% -5.58%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,092

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,656

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 11595
    Compression
    		 90222
    Encryption
    		 2592
    Extended Instructions
    		 11874
    Floating Point Maths
    		 57154
    Integer Maths
    		 75011
    Physics
    		 1875
    Prime Numbers
    		 117
    Single Threaded
    		 1331
    String Sorting
    		 54305

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1908
    Database Operations
    		 10832
    Memory Latency
    		 70
    Memory Read Cached
    		 11375
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8878
    Memory Write
    		 14996

    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

    Servers of the Same Family

    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    D2plds_v5 24 GiB0
    D4plds_v5 48 GiB0
    D8plds_v5 816 GiB0
    D32plds_v5 3264 GiB0
    D48plds_v5 4896 GiB0
    D64plds_v5 64128 GiB0

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