D8_v3 by Microsoft Azure

D8_v3 is a Dv3 family [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 205 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.05 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
205 GB Storage
Spare SCore
3,648
(All-cores)
776
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D8_v3
Name
D8_v3
API Reference
Standard_D8_v3
Description
Dv3 family [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
Dv3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
24
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-22T00:48:07.091876

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.071 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.071 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0753 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1471 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0739 USD/h 0.4 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0753 USD/h 0.408 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0776 USD/h 0.42 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.42 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.42 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.078 USD/h 0.422 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0791 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0791 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0727 USD/h 0.44 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0813 USD/h 0.44 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0813 USD/h 0.44 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0819 USD/h 0.443 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0821 USD/h 0.444 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1273 USD/h 0.444 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0828 USD/h 0.448 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0828 USD/h 0.448 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0828 USD/h 0.448 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0832 USD/h 0.45 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0832 USD/h 0.45 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.085 USD/h 0.46 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.085 USD/h 0.46 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0742 USD/h 0.464 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0857 USD/h 0.464 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0865 USD/h 0.468 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.087 USD/h 0.471 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0887 USD/h 0.48 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0889 USD/h 0.48 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0909 USD/h 0.492 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0909 USD/h 0.492 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.05 USD/h 0.5 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0924 USD/h 0.5 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0924 USD/h 0.5 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0924 USD/h 0.5 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0924 USD/h 0.5 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0931 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0939 USD/h 0.508 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0954 USD/h 0.516 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0954 USD/h 0.516 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0976 USD/h 0.528 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0976 USD/h 0.528 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0976 USD/h 0.528 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.1 USD/h 0.541 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.1046 USD/h 0.566 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.1076 USD/h 0.582 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.1105 USD/h 0.598 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.1153 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.1177 USD/h 0.635 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1175 USD/h 0.636 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.1268 USD/h 0.686 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.1269 USD/h 0.6866 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.1528 USD/h 0.827 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
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
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, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, rdseed, adx, smap, xsaveopt, vnmi, md_clear
Ecpus
4.7
Scalability
58.75

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A balanced general-purpose virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors and local SSD storage for standard utility workloads.

    General Purpose

    Microsoft Azure D8_v3 is an x86_64 general-purpose virtual machine from the Dv3 family, powered by an Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 processor running at 2.3 GHz. It features 8 dedicated vCPUs (4 physical cores), 32.0 GB of RAM, and a bundled 205 GB local SSD, with no GPU capabilities. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, its performance benchmarks generally place in the lower tiers, with single-core CPU and multi-core CPU metrics falling in the bottom 10% and 25% respectively. Memory bandwidth is also limited, with large-block read speeds at 36.83 GB/sec. Despite these constraints, it achieves average text generation speeds of 85.57 tokens/sec on small 135M language models. This instance is best suited for light general-purpose workloads, development environments, and basic web serving where resource balance is prioritized over high-performance throughput.

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    Prices per Zone

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.31Score
    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) 455,985 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.24 50.00% 50.00% -51.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,935,227 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.24 20.00% 20.00% -25.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,723 2,416 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 37,487 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 0.34 10.00% 10.00% -10.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,578 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 824

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 3,184

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 5,862
    Compression
    		 79,085
    Encryption
    		 1,758
    Extended Instructions
    		 3,920
    Floating Point Maths
    		 11,367
    Integer Maths
    		 18,065
    Physics
    		 718
    Prime Numbers
    		 50
    Single Threaded
    		 1,578
    String Sorting
    		 11,795

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,723
    Database Operations
    		 2,151
    Memory Latency
    		 68
    Memory Read Cached
    		 17,749
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 6,994
    Memory Write
    		 5,851

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 168.23 170.59 1.01×
    bitops
    		 82,337 378,153 4.59×
    branch
    		 113,294 680,587 6.01×
    funccall
    		 399.81 1,607 4.02×
    funcret
    		 8,336 46,309 5.56×
    hash
    		 92,924 525,074 5.65×
    intmath
    		 16,561 95,349 5.76×
    nop
    		 140,630 480,051 3.41×
    prime
    		 236,716 1,028,033 4.34×
    rotate
    		 71,025 380,414 5.36×
    str
    		 531,485 2,321,466 4.37×
    wcs
    		 354,571 1,469,912 4.15×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 1,749 6,958 3.98×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 410.34 2,067 5.04×
    zlib
    		 42 202.9 4.83×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 15,674 73,525 4.69×
    clone
    		 892.85 3,858 4.32×
    context
    		 1,501 7,797 5.19×
    cpu-sched
    		 72.58 523.27 7.21×
    eventfd
    		 24,727 300,799 12.16×
    fault
    		 7,359 31,770 4.32×
    fork
    		 2,899 13,286 4.58×
    getrandom
    		 32,026 154,305 4.82×
    hrtimers
    		 192,141 483,728 2.52×
    mprotect
    		 673,994 912,993 1.35×
    mtx
    		 9,693,617 143,381,372 14.79×
    munmap
    		 1,993 9,996 5.01×
    null
    		 159,626 795,932 4.99×
    pipe
    		 699,301 2,116,800 3.03×
    priv-instr
    		 336,453 1,726,784 5.13×
    resched
    		 1,038,299 334,215 0.32×
    switch
    		 40,103 962,418 24.00×
    timermix
    		 155,154 857,531 5.53×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 6,730 12,506 1.86×
    tsc
    		 727,527 3,977,385 5.47×
    usersyscall
    		 232,896 1,183,856 5.08×
    vdso
    		 54,478,368 303,286,810 5.57×
    vfork
    		 17,207 85,071 4.94×
    x86syscall
    		 1,773,221 8,922,989 5.03×
    yield
    		 3,038,865 2,991,347 0.98×
    zero
    		 1,183,954 5,653,675 4.78×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 11,869 60,617 5.11×
    expmath
    		 1,967 11,667 5.93×
    fma
    		 474,932 3,254,123 6.85×
    fp
    		 119.45 631.37 5.29×
    fractal
    		 3.8 22.4 5.89×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,049 12,547 6.12×
    logmath
    		 3,335 19,423 5.82×
    matrix
    		 2,280 14,137 6.20×
    matrix-3d
    		 529.34 1,492 2.82×
    monte-carlo
    		 84.96 427.32 5.03×
    mpfr
    		 889.61 3,712 4.17×
    powmath
    		 1,165 7,091 6.09×
    trig
    		 1,250 6,533 5.23×
    veccmp
    		 11,295 44,179 3.91×
    vecfp
    		 1,676 8,029 4.79×
    vecmath
    		 1,549 9,561 6.17×
    vecshuf
    		 678.93 2,890 4.26×
    vecwide
    		 41,622 192,176 4.62×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 5.2 24 4.62×
    bsearch
    		 178.43 799.41 4.48×
    bubblesort
    		 0.4 1.6 4.00×
    fibsearch
    		 178.52 788.45 4.42×
    heapsort
    		 6.2 30 4.84×
    hsearch
    		 3,696 17,484 4.73×
    insertionsort
    		 6 23.2 3.87×
    malloc
    		 1,561,085 11,857,010 7.60×
    mcontend
    		 133.36 1,624 12.17×
    mergesort
    		 17.2 90.2 5.24×
    qsort
    		 10.8 49.4 4.57×
    skiplist
    		 3,588 20,255 5.65×
    tree
    		 1 4.8 4.80×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 192,845 278,848 1.45×
    cachehammer
    		 346,110 2,487,562 7.19×
    cacheline
    		 27.45 221.1 8.05×
    l1cache
    		 167.46 724.25 4.32×
    memcpy
    		 255.76 1,088 4.25×
    memrate
    		 0.98 4.59 4.68×
    memthrash
    		 71.21 276.24 3.88×
    ptr-chase
    		 13,429,058 79,635,353 5.93×
    spinmem
    		 316.98 424.93 1.34×
    stream
    		 24.79 973.55 39.27×
    vm
    		 56,452 271,621 4.81×

    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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