D16s_v6 by Microsoft Azure

D16s_v6 is a Dsv6 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 0.1008 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
15,987
(All-cores)
1,951
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D16s_v6
Name
D16s_v6
API Reference
Standard_D16s_v6
Description
Dsv6 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
Dsv6
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-23T04:26:31.113907

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1489 USD/h 0.806 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1489 USD/h 0.806 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1489 USD/h 0.806 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1489 USD/h 0.806 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.17 USD/h 0.806 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1567 USD/h 0.848 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.1567 USD/h 0.848 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.848 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.848 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1584 USD/h 0.857 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1639 USD/h 0.887 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1661 USD/h 0.899 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1661 USD/h 0.899 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1661 USD/h 0.899 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1661 USD/h 0.899 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1683 USD/h 0.911 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.1713 USD/h 0.927 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1488 USD/h 0.932 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1739 USD/h 0.941 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.1739 USD/h 0.941 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1739 USD/h 0.941 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1739 USD/h 0.941 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.1785 USD/h 0.966 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1785 USD/h 0.966 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1785 USD/h 0.966 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.1789 USD/h 0.968 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.1789 USD/h 0.968 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1789 USD/h 0.968 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1789 USD/h 0.968 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1789 USD/h 0.968 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1804 USD/h 0.976 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.1828 USD/h 0.989 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1831 USD/h 0.991 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.1833 USD/h 0.992 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1008 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.1863 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1863 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1863 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.1907 USD/h 1.032 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1926 USD/h 1.042 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1926 USD/h 1.042 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1937 USD/h 1.048 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1981 USD/h 1.072 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1981 USD/h 1.072 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.2049 USD/h 1.109 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2101 USD/h 1.137 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.2131 USD/h 1.153 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.226 USD/h 1.223 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.2321 USD/h 1.256 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.2375 USD/h 1.285 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.2375 USD/h 1.285 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.2552 USD/h 1.381 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.2563 USD/h 1.387 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.3021 USD/h 1.635 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.3088 USD/h 1.671 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
4.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8573C
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
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
260 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
260 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, user_shstk, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, waitpkg, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, serialize, tsxldtrk, ibt, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
8.2
Scalability
51.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 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

      A balanced general-purpose virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processing, robust single-core performance, and advanced matrix multiplication extensions.

      General Purpose

      The Microsoft Azure D16s_v6 is a general-purpose virtual machine from the Dsv6 family, running on Microsoft Hyper-V. It features a dedicated Intel Xeon 8573C x86_64 processor with 16 vCPUs, 8 physical cores, and a 4.2 GHz clock speed, supported by a 260 MB L3 cache. The instance is configured with 64.0 GB of RAM (4.0 GB per core) but contains no local storage or bundled GPUs, relying instead on external Premium Storage. Benchmark results show strong single-core capabilities, including a Geekbench single-core score of 2134.0 and 31.24 GB/sec in single-threaded gzip compression, alongside average multi-core and memory performance. Equipped with Intel AMX and AVX-512 extensions, this server is well-suited for general-purpose enterprise workloads, static web serving, database operations, software compilation, and small-to-medium LLM inference tasks.

      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) 3,099,712 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.6 50.00% 50.00% +26.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 15,981,497 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1.3 20.00% 20.00% +5.40%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,415 2,416 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 254,815 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 2.3 10.00% 10.00% +8.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,917 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,134

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 13,134

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 26,652
      Compression
      		 274,713
      Encryption
      		 16,807
      Extended Instructions
      		 23,273
      Floating Point Maths
      		 54,234
      Integer Maths
      		 76,484
      Physics
      		 3,693
      Prime Numbers
      		 159
      Single Threaded
      		 2,917
      String Sorting
      		 38,297

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,415
      Database Operations
      		 9,578
      Memory Latency
      		 65
      Memory Read Cached
      		 26,599
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,510
      Memory Write
      		 9,504

      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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