D32plds_v5 by Microsoft Azure
(All-cores)
(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | azure |
Server ID | Standard_D32plds_v5 |
Name | D32plds_v5 |
API Reference | Standard_D32plds_v5 |
Description | DPLDSv5 family [ARM processor] [Low Memory] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 32 vCPUs |
Family | DPLDSv5 |
Hw Virt | |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-08-04T13:41:47.698554 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
Central India (IN) / centralindia | 0.1449 USD/h | 0.784 USD/h |
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral | - | 0.784 USD/h |
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest | - | 0.784 USD/h |
East US 2 (US) / eastus2 | 0.2271 USD/h | 1.229 USD/h |
North Central US (US) / northcentralus | 0.2271 USD/h | 1.229 USD/h |
West US 2 (US) / westus2 | 0.2271 USD/h | 1.229 USD/h |
West US 3 (US) / westus3 | 0.2271 USD/h | 1.229 USD/h |
East US (US) / eastus | 0.2598 USD/h | 1.229 USD/h |
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral | 0.246 USD/h | 1.331 USD/h |
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral | 0.2508 USD/h | 1.357 USD/h |
Central US (US) / centralus | 0.2565 USD/h | 1.389 USD/h |
North Europe (IE) / northeurope | 0.2578 USD/h | 1.395 USD/h |
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral | 0.2632 USD/h | 1.424 USD/h |
West Europe (NL) / westeurope | 0.2632 USD/h | 1.424 USD/h |
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia | 0.2661 USD/h | 1.44 USD/h |
UK South (GB) / uksouth | 0.1943 USD/h | 1.472 USD/h |
South Central US (US) / southcentralus | 0.2726 USD/h | 1.475 USD/h |
West Central US (US) / westcentralus | 0.2726 USD/h | 1.475 USD/h |
France Central (FR) / francecentral | 0.2735 USD/h | 1.48 USD/h |
West US (US) / westus | 0.2839 USD/h | 1.536 USD/h |
East Asia (HK) / eastasia | 0.2898 USD/h | 1.568 USD/h |
Japan East (JP) / japaneast | 0.2898 USD/h | 1.568 USD/h |
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth | 0.2898 USD/h | 1.568 USD/h |
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast | 0.2986 USD/h | 1.616 USD/h |
Processor
vCPUs | 32 |
Hypervisor | Microsoft Hyper-V |
CPU Allocation | Dedicated |
CPU Cores | 32 |
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 | 2 MiB |
CPU L1I Cache | 64 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache Total | 2 MiB |
CPU L2 Cache | 1 MiB |
CPU L2 Cache Total | 32 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 | 31.4 |
Scalability | 98.12 |
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 | 1229 GB |
Storages |
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| NETWORK | |
|---|---|
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
Server Description
An ARM-powered virtual machine featuring thirty-two dedicated cores and local storage for efficient multi-threaded processing and web serving.
Microsoft Azure D32plds_v5 is an ARM-based virtual machine featuring 32 dedicated physical cores powered by an Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 processor running at 3.0 GHz. It is configured with 64.0 GB of RAM, representing a 1:2 core-to-memory ratio, and includes a 1229 GB local disk. Operating under Microsoft Hyper-V, the server delivers average multi-core performance, with a Geekbench multi-core score of 12092.0 and a stress-ng multi-core score of 57238.05. However, single-core metrics are weaker, and the lack of AVX or AMX extensions restricts high-performance vector math. This server offers qualitative cost efficiency for multi-threaded workloads that require dedicated physical cores but lower memory overhead. It is suited for static web serving, software compilation, and database operations, while being poorly suited for large language model inference.
Economics
Performance
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Geekbench Multi-Core
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 20318 |
Compression | 179209 |
Encryption | 5159 |
Extended Instructions | 23523 |
Floating Point Maths | 113168 |
Integer Maths | 148672 |
Physics | 2934 |
Prime Numbers | 170 |
Single Threaded | 1329 |
String Sorting | 105496 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 1918 |
Database Operations | 20329 |
Memory Latency | 72 |
Memory Read Cached | 11350 |
Memory Read Uncached | 8611 |
Memory Write | 14789 |
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
Servers of the Same Family
| INSTANCE | vCPUs | MEMORY | GPUs |
|---|---|---|---|
| D2plds_v5 | 2 | 4 GiB | 0 |
| D4plds_v5 | 4 | 8 GiB | 0 |
| D8plds_v5 | 8 | 16 GiB | 0 |
| D16plds_v5 | 16 | 32 GiB | 0 |
| D48plds_v5 | 48 | 96 GiB | 0 |
| D64plds_v5 | 64 | 128 GiB | 0 |
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