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D16pls_v5 by Microsoft Azure

D16pls_v5 is a DPLSv5 family [ARM processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.063 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
28903
(All-cores)
1822
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D16pls_v5
Name
D16pls_v5
API Reference
Standard_D16pls_v5
Description
DPLSv5 family [ARM processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs
Family
DPLSv5
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
17
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-02T08:53:49.730845

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.063 USD/h 0.341 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.341 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.341 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1005 USD/h 0.544 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1005 USD/h 0.544 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1005 USD/h 0.544 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1005 USD/h 0.544 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.115 USD/h 0.544 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1079 USD/h 0.584 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1079 USD/h 0.584 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.11 USD/h 0.595 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1136 USD/h 0.615 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1148 USD/h 0.621 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1148 USD/h 0.621 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1159 USD/h 0.627 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0853 USD/h 0.646 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1197 USD/h 0.648 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1207 USD/h 0.653 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1207 USD/h 0.653 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1253 USD/h 0.678 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1262 USD/h 0.683 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1266 USD/h 0.685 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1271 USD/h 0.688 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1312 USD/h 0.71 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
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
    0 GB
    Storages
    • 0 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 compute-focused instance featuring sixteen dedicated physical cores and a low-memory profile for efficient multi-threaded scale-out workloads.

    Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure D16pls_v5 is an ARM-based virtual machine from the DPLSv5 family, utilizing 16 dedicated physical cores of an Ampere Neoverse-N1 processor clocked at 3.0 GHz. It is configured with 32.0 GB of RAM, representing a low-memory 1:2 RAM-to-vCPU ratio. The instance does not include bundled local storage or GPUs but is premium storage capable. Performance benchmarks indicate average multi-core capabilities, with a stress-ng multi-core score of 28902.52 and a Geekbench multi-core score of 9624.0. However, single-core performance and cryptographic operations represent key tradeoffs, scoring in the bottom 25 percent of benchmarks. This instance is qualitatively cost-efficient for core-dense, multi-threaded workloads with moderate memory requirements, such as static web serving, software compilation, and Redis operations, while being less suited for memory-heavy or single-thread-bound applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.998Score
    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) 2,036,793 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 1.07 50.00% 50.00% +3.44%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 12,508,998 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 1.08 20.00% 20.00% +1.55%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,985 2,411 0.823 10.00% 10.00% -1.93%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 135,124 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 1.26 10.00% 10.00% +2.34%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,334 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.564 10.00% 10.00% -5.57%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,111

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,624

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 11632
    Compression
    		 90348
    Encryption
    		 2592
    Extended Instructions
    		 11879
    Floating Point Maths
    		 57201
    Integer Maths
    		 75130
    Physics
    		 2027
    Prime Numbers
    		 120
    Single Threaded
    		 1334
    String Sorting
    		 54551

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1985
    Database Operations
    		 11406
    Memory Latency
    		 67
    Memory Read Cached
    		 11379
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9947
    Memory Write
    		 15003

    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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    D64pls_v5 64128 GiB0

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