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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
15987
(All-cores)
1951
(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
2026-07-24T14:14:30.750155

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
0.1118 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
102.5

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
    • 0 GB ssd (temp disk)
    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 processors, advanced matrix acceleration, and strong single-core performance.

    General Purpose

    Microsoft Azure D16s_v6 is a general-purpose virtual machine featuring 16 dedicated vCPUs and 64.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8573C processor running at 4.2 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture, it includes 260 MB of L3 cache and supports Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) for matrix math acceleration. Benchmarks show strong single-core performance, with single-threaded gzip compression and Geekbench single-core scores in the top 25%, alongside top-tier text generation speeds for small language models. However, multi-core and memory bandwidth metrics remain in the average tier. The server lacks local storage, requiring external Premium Storage, which offers a cost-efficient profile for workloads that do not need local scratch disks. This configuration is suitable for database operations, web serving, software compilation, and CPU-based inference.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.52Score
    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 1,896,415 ops/sec 1.63 50.00% 50.00% +27.70%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 15,981,497 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 1.38 20.00% 20.00% +6.65%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,415 2,411 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 254,815 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 2.37 10.00% 10.00% +9.01%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,917 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.23 10.00% 10.00% +2.09%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,134

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 13,134

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 26652
    Compression
    		 274713
    Encryption
    		 16807
    Extended Instructions
    		 23273
    Floating Point Maths
    		 54234
    Integer Maths
    		 76484
    Physics
    		 3693
    Prime Numbers
    		 159
    Single Threaded
    		 2917
    String Sorting
    		 38297

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2415
    Database Operations
    		 9578
    Memory Latency
    		 65
    Memory Read Cached
    		 26599
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10510
    Memory Write
    		 9504

    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

    Alternatives

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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    D2s_v6 28 GiB0
    D4s_v6 416 GiB0
    D8s_v6 832 GiB0
    D32s_v6 32128 GiB0
    D48s_v6 48192 GiB0
    D64s_v6 64256 GiB0
    D96s_v6 96384 GiB0

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