D3_v2 by Microsoft Azure

D3_v2 is a Dv2 family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 14 GiB of memory and 205 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0336 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
14 GiB Memory
205 GB Storage
Spare SCore
3,158
(All-cores)
823
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D3_v2
Name
D3_v2
API Reference
Standard_D3_v2
Description
Dv2 family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs
Family
Dv2
Hw Virt
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-21T13:53:20.132436

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0514 USD/h 0.229 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0515 USD/h 0.229 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1127 USD/h 0.229 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0563 USD/h 0.251 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.057 USD/h 0.254 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.057 USD/h 0.254 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.059 USD/h 0.263 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0597 USD/h 0.266 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0611 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0611 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0611 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0611 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0611 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0615 USD/h 0.274 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0617 USD/h 0.275 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0619 USD/h 0.275 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0626 USD/h 0.279 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0628 USD/h 0.28 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1088 USD/h 0.28 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0656 USD/h 0.292 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0656 USD/h 0.292 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0541 USD/h 0.293 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0657 USD/h 0.293 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0682 USD/h 0.293 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0667 USD/h 0.297 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0671 USD/h 0.299 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0671 USD/h 0.2992 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0689 USD/h 0.307 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0698 USD/h 0.311 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0711 USD/h 0.316 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0741 USD/h 0.33 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0336 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0754 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0754 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0757 USD/h 0.337 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0757 USD/h 0.337 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0757 USD/h 0.337 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.337 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.337 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.077 USD/h 0.343 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0781 USD/h 0.348 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0788 USD/h 0.351 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0788 USD/h 0.351 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0788 USD/h 0.351 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0801 USD/h 0.357 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0819 USD/h 0.365 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0867 USD/h 0.385 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0873 USD/h 0.389 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0873 USD/h 0.3891 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0878 USD/h 0.391 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0918 USD/h 0.409 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.096 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0999 USD/h 0.445 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.1024 USD/h 0.456 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2.6 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8171M
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
36 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
36 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, cpuid, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xsaves, md_clear
Ecpus
3.8
Scalability
95

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
14 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
14 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    205 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 205 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A general-purpose virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon cores and local storage for basic, non-intensive computing workloads.

    General Purpose

    Microsoft Azure D3_v2 is an x86_64 general-purpose virtual machine from the Dv2 family, running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It features 4 dedicated physical cores powered by an Intel Xeon 8171M processor clocked at 2.6 GHz, paired with 14.0 GB of RAM and 205 GB of local storage. No GPUs are included. Performance benchmarks indicate that the D3_v2 sits primarily in the lower tiers, with single-core stress-ng and Geekbench scores falling into the bottom 10%, and multi-core performance categorized in the bottom 25%. Large-block memory bandwidth is average, reaching 40.69 GB/sec for reads and 31.3 GB/sec for writes. Due to these performance constraints, this instance is suited for light general-purpose workloads, basic web serving, and small-scale development tasks where dedicated CPU allocation is required.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.3Score
    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) 440,997 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.23 50.00% 50.00% -52.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,897,777 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.24 20.00% 20.00% -25.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,598 2,416 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 47,807 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 0.44 10.00% 10.00% -7.90%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,454 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 928

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 3,027

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 4,477
    Compression
    		 56,911
    Encryption
    		 1,457
    Extended Instructions
    		 4,758
    Floating Point Maths
    		 9,468
    Integer Maths
    		 11,084
    Physics
    		 513
    Prime Numbers
    		 24
    Single Threaded
    		 1,454
    String Sorting
    		 6,858

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,598
    Database Operations
    		 2,127
    Memory Latency
    		 65
    Memory Read Cached
    		 17,113
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 7,468
    Memory Write
    		 7,444

    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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