D5_v2 by Microsoft Azure

D5_v2 is a Dv2 family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 56 GiB of memory and 819 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1345 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
56 GiB Memory
819 GB Storage
Spare SCore
13,256
(All-cores)
1,065
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D5_v2
Name
D5_v2
API Reference
Standard_D5_v2
API Reference Object
-
Description
Dv2 family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
Dv2
Hw Virt
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-19T00:28:17.771988

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.2056 USD/h 0.916 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.2062 USD/h 0.916 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.4509 USD/h 0.916 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.2251 USD/h 1.003 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2283 USD/h 1.017 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.2283 USD/h 1.017 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2363 USD/h 1.053 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.2388 USD/h 1.064 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.2437 USD/h 1.086 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.244 USD/h 1.087 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.244 USD/h 1.087 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.244 USD/h 1.087 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.2441 USD/h 1.088 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.2459 USD/h 1.096 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.2466 USD/h 1.099 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.2473 USD/h 1.099 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.2507 USD/h 1.117 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.2513 USD/h 1.12 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.4351 USD/h 1.12 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.2621 USD/h 1.168 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.2621 USD/h 1.168 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2161 USD/h 1.17 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.2625 USD/h 1.17 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2723 USD/h 1.17 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.2668 USD/h 1.189 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.2683 USD/h 1.1957 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.2684 USD/h 1.196 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.2753 USD/h 1.227 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.2796 USD/h 1.246 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.2842 USD/h 1.263 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.2964 USD/h 1.321 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1345 USD/h 1.345 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.3018 USD/h 1.345 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.3018 USD/h 1.345 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.3029 USD/h 1.35 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.3029 USD/h 1.35 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.3029 USD/h 1.35 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 1.35 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 1.35 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.3074 USD/h 1.37 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.3128 USD/h 1.394 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.3151 USD/h 1.404 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.3151 USD/h 1.404 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.3153 USD/h 1.405 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.3207 USD/h 1.429 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.3274 USD/h 1.459 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.3464 USD/h 1.539 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.3486 USD/h 1.5537 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.3487 USD/h 1.554 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.3507 USD/h 1.563 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.3671 USD/h 1.636 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.3846 USD/h 1.714 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.3994 USD/h 1.78 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.4093 USD/h 1.824 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2673 v4
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
50 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
50 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, rdseed, adx, smap, xsaveopt, md_clear
Ecpus
12.4
Scalability
77.5

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    Server Description

    A dedicated sixteen-core legacy instance offering balanced memory, substantial local storage, and reliable multi-threaded performance for general-purpose enterprise workloads.

    General PurposeStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure D5_v2 is a general-purpose virtual machine from the Dv2 family, powered by an Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 processor with 16 dedicated physical cores on the x86_64 architecture. Operating at 2.3 GHz with a 50 MB L3 cache, this instance is equipped with 56.0 GB of RAM and 819 GB of local storage, with no GPU acceleration. Benchmark data reveals weak single-core CPU performance, but average multi-core capabilities, memory read bandwidth, and database operations. The server achieves 18.19 million operations per second in Redis SET tests and 14.84 GB/sec in static web serving. Given its legacy hardware profile, the D5_v2 provides a cost-effective option for multi-threaded workloads that benefit from dedicated physical cores and local storage without requiring high single-threaded speeds. It is best suited for general-purpose web serving, database operations, and multi-threaded enterprise applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.82Score
    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) 1,589,343 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.84 50.00% 50.00% -8.30%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 10,972,434 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.92 20.00% 20.00% -1.70%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,410 2,417 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 59,708 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.55 10.00% 10.00% -5.80%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,611 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 970

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 7,344

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 16783
    Compression
    		 238128
    Encryption
    		 6040
    Extended Instructions
    		 20083
    Floating Point Maths
    		 38383
    Integer Maths
    		 46674
    Physics
    		 2025
    Prime Numbers
    		 126
    Single Threaded
    		 1611
    String Sorting
    		 28530

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2410
    Database Operations
    		 8990
    Memory Latency
    		 54
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18690
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10745
    Memory Write
    		 9091

    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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