D16pls_v6 by Microsoft Azure

D16pls_v6 is a Dplsv6 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 0.0602 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
33,153
(All-cores)
2,073
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D16pls_v6
Name
D16pls_v6
API Reference
Standard_D16pls_v6
Description
Dplsv6 family [ARM processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs
Family
Dplsv6
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-27T15:00:06.135363

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0602 USD/h 0.326 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0917 USD/h 0.496 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0917 USD/h 0.496 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0917 USD/h 0.496 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0917 USD/h 0.496 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1969 USD/h 0.496 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0979 USD/h 0.53 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1009 USD/h 0.546 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.102 USD/h 0.552 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.102 USD/h 0.552 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1026 USD/h 0.555 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1655 USD/h 0.555 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1089 USD/h 0.562 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1059 USD/h 0.573 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1068 USD/h 0.578 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.1072 USD/h 0.58 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1074 USD/h 0.581 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1074 USD/h 0.581 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1098 USD/h 0.594 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1098 USD/h 0.594 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1098 USD/h 0.594 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.11 USD/h 0.595 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.11 USD/h 0.595 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1113 USD/h 0.602 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.112 USD/h 0.606 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1144 USD/h 0.619 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1144 USD/h 0.619 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1179 USD/h 0.638 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1183 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.129 USD/h 0.645 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.129 USD/h 0.645 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.129 USD/h 0.645 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1194 USD/h 0.646 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1197 USD/h 0.648 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.1201 USD/h 0.65 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1262 USD/h 0.683 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1286 USD/h 0.696 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.1312 USD/h 0.71 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.1498 USD/h 0.749 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.143 USD/h 0.774 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1458 USD/h 0.789 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.1669 USD/h 0.903 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.1706 USD/h 0.923 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.1846 USD/h 0.923 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
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      An ARM-powered virtual machine offering dedicated physical cores and high memory bandwidth for compute-heavy, low-memory workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Microsoft Azure D16pls_v6 is an ARM-based virtual machine from the Dplsv6 family, featuring 16 dedicated vCPUs and 16 physical cores powered by a 3.4 GHz Microsoft Neoverse-N2 processor. Equipped with 32.0 GB of RAM, this server provides a compute-focused 2.0 GB per core ratio without bundled local storage or GPUs. Benchmarks reveal top-tier memory performance, highlighted by a strong Passmark memory score and high large-block memory bandwidth, alongside average CPU and database performance. The absence of local storage requires external premium storage integration. This configuration represents a cost-efficient option for compute-intensive workloads with moderate memory requirements, such as web serving, software compilation, and multi-threaded application hosting.

      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) 2,854,918 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 1.5 50.00% 50.00% +22.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 18,767,912 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 1.6 20.00% 20.00% +9.90%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 3,233 2,416 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 396,725 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 3.6 10.00% 10.00% +14.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,881 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,687

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 14,659

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 14,713
      Compression
      		 109,821
      Encryption
      		 2,991
      Extended Instructions
      		 14,315
      Floating Point Maths
      		 84,782
      Integer Maths
      		 100,822
      Physics
      		 5,162
      Prime Numbers
      		 223
      Single Threaded
      		 1,881
      String Sorting
      		 82,093

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 3,233
      Database Operations
      		 19,538
      Memory Latency
      		 52
      Memory Read Cached
      		 25,537
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 19,362
      Memory Write
      		 25,747

      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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