D8a_v4 by Microsoft Azure

D8a_v4 is a DAv4 family [AMD processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 205 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0455 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
205 GB Storage
Spare SCore
3,079
(All-cores)
771
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D8a_v4
Name
D8a_v4
API Reference
Standard_D8a_v4
Description
DAv4 family [AMD processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
DAv4
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-20T06:51:27.450835

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0455 USD/h 0.246 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.246 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.246 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.0673 USD/h 0.364 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.071 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.071 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
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
0.081 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0747 USD/h 0.404 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0754 USD/h 0.408 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0769 USD/h 0.416 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.0769 USD/h 0.416 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0769 USD/h 0.416 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0769 USD/h 0.416 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0793 USD/h 0.416 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.078 USD/h 0.422 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0791 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0791 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0794 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0798 USD/h 0.432 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0798 USD/h 0.432 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0802 USD/h 0.434 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0819 USD/h 0.443 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0791 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
West US (US) / westus
0.0828 USD/h 0.448 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0923 USD/h 0.454 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.085 USD/h 0.46 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0852 USD/h 0.461 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0852 USD/h 0.461 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0859 USD/h 0.465 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.087 USD/h 0.471 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.087 USD/h 0.471 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0872 USD/h 0.472 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.048 USD/h 0.48 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0887 USD/h 0.48 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0887 USD/h 0.48 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0887 USD/h 0.48 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.0894 USD/h 0.484 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0909 USD/h 0.492 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0917 USD/h 0.496 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0917 USD/h 0.496 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0922 USD/h 0.499 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0939 USD/h 0.508 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0976 USD/h 0.528 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.1 USD/h 0.541 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.1 USD/h 0.541 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.1015 USD/h 0.549 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1015 USD/h 0.549 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.1076 USD/h 0.582 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1135 USD/h 0.612 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.1135 USD/h 0.614 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.122 USD/h 0.66 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.1319 USD/h 0.714 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.1319 USD/h 0.714 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.1471 USD/h 0.796 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
3.525 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
7763
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
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 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, ht, syscall, nx, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, rep_good, nopl, cpuid, extd_apicid, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, topoext, vmmcall, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, xsaveerptr, arat, umip, vaes, vpclmulqdq, rdpid, fsrm
Ecpus
4
Scalability
50

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

    Server Description

    A balanced general-purpose virtual machine featuring dedicated AMD EPYC processors and integrated local SSD storage for standard workloads.

    General Purpose

    The Microsoft Azure D8a_v4 is a general-purpose virtual machine from the DAv4 family, utilizing the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It is configured with an x86_64 AMD EPYC 7763 processor running at 3.525 GHz, providing 8 dedicated vCPUs across 4 physical cores. The hardware profile includes 32.0 GB of RAM (4.0 GB per core) and 205 GB of local SSD storage, with no GPU acceleration. Performance benchmarks show average capabilities for most tasks, including Geekbench multi-core execution, static web serving, and database operations, though single-core and multi-core stress-ng performance is relatively weak. This virtual machine is best suited for balanced general-purpose workloads, static web hosting, and standard database operations where extreme single-core compute performance is not a primary requirement.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.45Score
    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) 633,007 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.33 50.00% 50.00% -43.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,784,335 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.4 20.00% 20.00% -17.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,605 2,417 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 51,866 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.47 10.00% 10.00% -7.30%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,429 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,561

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 6,259

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 11,955
    Compression
    		 128,606
    Encryption
    		 8,676
    Extended Instructions
    		 7,420
    Floating Point Maths
    		 18,438
    Integer Maths
    		 33,382
    Physics
    		 1,309
    Prime Numbers
    		 78
    Single Threaded
    		 2,429
    String Sorting
    		 18,243

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,605
    Database Operations
    		 3,594
    Memory Latency
    		 63
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24,643
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 20,821
    Memory Write
    		 19,894

    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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