D16s_v5 by Microsoft Azure

D16s_v5 is a DSv5 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.096 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
15,536
(All-cores)
1,899
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D16s_v5
Name
D16s_v5
API Reference
Standard_D16s_v5
Description
DSv5 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
DSv5
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
15
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-03T00:29:18.060855Z

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1419 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1419 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1424 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1621 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2447 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1493 USD/h 0.808 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.1493 USD/h 0.808 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.808 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.808 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1508 USD/h 0.816 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1562 USD/h 0.845 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1582 USD/h 0.856 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1582 USD/h 0.856 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2189 USD/h 0.856 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.3005 USD/h 0.856 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.1597 USD/h 0.864 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.1597 USD/h 0.864 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1602 USD/h 0.868 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.1632 USD/h 0.883 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1582 USD/h 0.888 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1656 USD/h 0.896 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.1656 USD/h 0.896 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1656 USD/h 0.896 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1661 USD/h 0.896 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.17 USD/h 0.92 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.17 USD/h 0.92 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.17 USD/h 0.92 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.17 USD/h 0.92 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.17 USD/h 0.92 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.17 USD/h 0.92 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1704 USD/h 0.922 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1704 USD/h 0.922 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1717 USD/h 0.929 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.1741 USD/h 0.942 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.1741 USD/h 0.942 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1745 USD/h 0.944 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.096 USD/h 0.96 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.1774 USD/h 0.96 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1774 USD/h 0.96 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.178 USD/h 0.96 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.1817 USD/h 0.983 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1833 USD/h 0.992 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1833 USD/h 0.992 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1844 USD/h 0.998 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.1863 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.187 USD/h 1.012 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1875 USD/h 1.012 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1878 USD/h 1.016 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1951 USD/h 1.056 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.1987 USD/h 1.075 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2001 USD/h 1.083 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.2153 USD/h 1.165 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.221 USD/h 1.196 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.2262 USD/h 1.224 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.2262 USD/h 1.224 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.2428 USD/h 1.314 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.2432 USD/h 1.316 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.2441 USD/h 1.321 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.294 USD/h 1.591 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8370C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
384 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
10 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
48 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, fsrm, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
8.2
Scalability
51.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A balanced x86_64 virtual machine featuring sixteen dedicated Intel Xeon vCPUs and sixty-four gigabytes of memory for general-purpose workloads.

      General Purpose

      Microsoft Azure D16s_v5 is a general-purpose virtual machine from the DSv5 family, powered by an Intel Xeon 8370C processor with 16 dedicated vCPUs and 64.0 GB of RAM. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this x86_64 instance features 8 physical cores running at 2.8 GHz with a 48 MB L3 cache. It lacks bundled local storage and GPUs but supports Premium Storage. Benchmarks indicate solid mid-range performance, with a PassMark CPU score of 21254.08, a static web serving throughput of 21.23 GB/sec, and a strong text generation speed of 285.04 tokens per second for small LLM models. The balanced 1:4 vCPU-to-RAM ratio makes it cost-effective for general-purpose applications, software compilation, database operations, and web serving.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.1Score
      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) 2,215,296 ops/sec 1,916,704 ops/sec 1.2 50.00% 50.00% +9.50%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 10,743,458 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 0.92 20.00% 20.00% -1.70%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,718 2,417 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 102,860 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.91 10.00% 10.00% -0.94%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,413 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,625

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 9,869

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 21254
      Compression
      		 246325
      Encryption
      		 14594
      Extended Instructions
      		 14383
      Floating Point Maths
      		 34429
      Integer Maths
      		 67341
      Physics
      		 2295
      Prime Numbers
      		 139
      Single Threaded
      		 2413
      String Sorting
      		 34959

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2718
      Database Operations
      		 8061
      Memory Latency
      		 51
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24321
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 12067
      Memory Write
      		 10933

      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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      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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      D8s_v5 832 GiB0
      D32s_v5 32128 GiB0
      D48s_v5 48192 GiB0
      D64s_v5 64256 GiB0
      D96s_v5 96384 GiB0

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