D16plds_v6 by Microsoft Azure

D16plds_v6 is a Dpldsv6 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 945 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.076 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
945 GB Storage
Spare SCore
33,161
(All-cores)
2,075
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D16plds_v6
Name
D16plds_v6
API Reference
Standard_D16plds_v6
Description
Dpldsv6 family [ARM processor] [Low Memory] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs
Family
Dpldsv6
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-21T21:33:24.948126

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.076 USD/h 0.411 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1153 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1153 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1153 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1153 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2477 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1231 USD/h 0.666 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1268 USD/h 0.686 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1283 USD/h 0.694 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1283 USD/h 0.694 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.129 USD/h 0.698 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2081 USD/h 0.698 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1368 USD/h 0.706 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1331 USD/h 0.72 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1342 USD/h 0.726 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1349 USD/h 0.73 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.1349 USD/h 0.73 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1349 USD/h 0.73 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1379 USD/h 0.746 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1379 USD/h 0.746 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1379 USD/h 0.746 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1384 USD/h 0.749 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1384 USD/h 0.749 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1395 USD/h 0.755 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.141 USD/h 0.763 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.144 USD/h 0.779 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.144 USD/h 0.779 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1484 USD/h 0.803 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1488 USD/h 0.805 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1499 USD/h 0.811 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.1622 USD/h 0.811 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.1622 USD/h 0.811 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.1622 USD/h 0.811 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1504 USD/h 0.814 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.1512 USD/h 0.818 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1587 USD/h 0.859 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1617 USD/h 0.875 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.165 USD/h 0.893 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.1884 USD/h 0.942 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.18 USD/h 0.974 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1833 USD/h 0.992 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.2099 USD/h 1.136 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.2146 USD/h 1.161 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.2322 USD/h 1.161 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
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
    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 compute-focused virtual server featuring sixteen dedicated cores, low memory density, and high-speed local NVMe SSD storage.

    Compute OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure D16plds_v6 is an ARM64-based virtual machine featuring a 16-core Microsoft Neoverse-N2 processor running at 3.4 GHz with dedicated CPU allocation and no hyperthreading. It is configured with 32.0 GB of RAM, establishing a compute-focused 2.0 GB per core ratio, and includes a bundled 945 GB local NVMe SSD. Benchmark data indicates strong memory bandwidth performance, with large-block read speeds reaching 307.54 GB/sec, alongside average multi-core CPU performance. The server lacks GPU acceleration and is optimized for workloads requiring high-speed local storage and dedicated physical cores without massive memory requirements. It is best suited for tasks such as software compilation, static web serving, and lightweight database operations.

    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) 2,784,448 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 1.5 50.00% 50.00% +22.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 18,472,202 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 1.5 20.00% 20.00% +8.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,946 2,416 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 394,726 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 3.5 10.00% 10.00% +13.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,874 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,688

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 14,736

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 14,693
    Compression
    		 109,754
    Encryption
    		 2,992
    Extended Instructions
    		 14,319
    Floating Point Maths
    		 84,777
    Integer Maths
    		 100,892
    Physics
    		 4,932
    Prime Numbers
    		 218
    Single Threaded
    		 1,874
    String Sorting
    		 81,454

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,946
    Database Operations
    		 18,348
    Memory Latency
    		 58
    Memory Read Cached
    		 25,578
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 15,816
    Memory Write
    		 25,222

    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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    D8plds_v6 816 GiB0
    D32plds_v6 3264 GiB0
    D48plds_v6 4896 GiB0
    D64plds_v6 64128 GiB0
    D96plds_v6 96192 GiB0

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