D8lds_v7 by Microsoft Azure

D8lds_v7 is a Dldsv7 family [Low Memory] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 472 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0983 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
472 GB Storage
Spare SCore
9,230
(All-cores)
2,267
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D8lds_v7
Name
D8lds_v7
API Reference
Standard_D8lds_v7
Description
Dldsv7 family [Low Memory] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
Dldsv7
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
58.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-04T17:53:10.302153

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0983 USD/h 0.532 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0983 USD/h 0.532 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1024 USD/h 0.554 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1024 USD/h 0.554 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1024 USD/h 0.554 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1024 USD/h 0.554 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1042 USD/h 0.564 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.1046 USD/h 0.566 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1087 USD/h 0.588 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1137 USD/h 0.615 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.114 USD/h 0.617 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1181 USD/h 0.639 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1181 USD/h 0.639 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1181 USD/h 0.639 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1183 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1212 USD/h 0.656 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1212 USD/h 0.656 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1229 USD/h 0.665 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1229 USD/h 0.665 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1236 USD/h 0.669 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1279 USD/h 0.692 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1283 USD/h 0.694 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.1299 USD/h 0.703 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1575 USD/h 0.852 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
4.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
6973P-C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
192 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
480 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
480 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, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, waitpkg, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, serialize, tsxldtrk, ibt, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
4.1
Scalability
51.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    472 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 472 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A compute-optimized virtual server featuring high-frequency Intel Xeon processing, fast local NVMe storage, and exceptional single-core performance.

    Compute OptimizedGeneral PurposeStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure D8lds_v7 is an x86_64 compute-optimized server featuring an Intel Xeon 6973P-C processor with 8 dedicated vCPUs operating at 4.2 GHz. It is configured with 16.0 GB of RAM, providing a 1:2 memory-to-vCPU ratio, and includes a 472 GB local NVMe SSD. The processor features a massive 480 MB L3 cache and supports advanced vector and matrix extensions. Benchmarks indicate exceptional single-core capabilities, with Geekbench single-core and text processing scores reaching the top 10% tier. While multi-core and memory bandwidth metrics remain in the average range, the server excels in single-threaded compression and lightweight LLM text generation. This hardware profile is highly cost-efficient for compute-intensive, low-memory tasks but presents a clear tradeoff for memory-heavy applications. It is best suited for text processing, software compilation, web serving, and lightweight containerized workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.95Score
    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) 1,732,816 ops/sec 1,926,573 ops/sec 0.89 50.00% 50.00% -5.70%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 9,861,315 ops/sec 11,789,031 ops/sec 0.82 20.00% 20.00% -3.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,216 2,410 0.92 10.00% 10.00% -0.83%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 118,069 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,509 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.5 10.00% 10.00% +4.10%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,250

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 8,898

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 16,576
    Compression
    		 176,725
    Encryption
    		 9,810
    Extended Instructions
    		 11,516
    Floating Point Maths
    		 31,163
    Integer Maths
    		 44,028
    Physics
    		 2,053
    Prime Numbers
    		 95
    Single Threaded
    		 3,509
    String Sorting
    		 22,807

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,216
    Database Operations
    		 4,477
    Memory Latency
    		 77
    Memory Read Cached
    		 30,760
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 21,652
    Memory Write
    		 8,351

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 175.63 172.22 0.98×
    bitops
    		 176,242 815,084 4.62×
    branch
    		 163,628 1,062,731 6.49×
    funccall
    		 898.13 4,816 5.36×
    funcret
    		 15,108 91,853 6.08×
    hash
    		 201,438 1,185,993 5.89×
    intmath
    		 77,215 385,969 5.00×
    nop
    		 309,498 1,317,412 4.26×
    prime
    		 548,716 2,934,510 5.35×
    rotate
    		 114,752 757,499 6.60×
    str
    		 1,156,877 6,285,147 5.43×
    wcs
    		 811,590 3,745,285 4.61×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 3,974 19,650 4.94×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 960.3 4,938 5.14×
    zlib
    		 79.23 455.63 5.75×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 40,003 184,790 4.62×
    clone
    		 1,411 3,828 2.71×
    context
    		 6,083 40,743 6.70×
    cpu-sched
    		 55.9 533.09 9.54×
    eventfd
    		 41,578 1,247,204 30.00×
    fault
    		 23,387 93,227 3.99×
    fork
    		 6,549 32,624 4.98×
    getrandom
    		 68,751 404,986 5.89×
    hrtimers
    		 193,457 1,061,177 5.49×
    mprotect
    		 980,251 3,492,137 3.56×
    mtx
    		 38,009,091 314,860,284 8.28×
    munmap
    		 4,980 27,134 5.45×
    null
    		 997,705 6,633,050 6.65×
    pipe
    		 769,805 10,074,655 13.09×
    priv-instr
    		 1,009,633 5,560,870 5.51×
    resched
    		 4,176,705 885,806 0.21×
    switch
    		 55,503 3,253,023 58.61×
    timermix
    		 231,972 1,627,660 7.02×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 6,711 19,255 2.87×
    tsc
    		 1,044,194 6,533,415 6.26×
    usersyscall
    		 868,321 4,935,641 5.68×
    vdso
    		 123,616,376 766,052,730 6.20×
    vfork
    		 30,998 187,969 6.06×
    x86syscall
    		 12,138,306 84,535,671 6.96×
    yield
    		 9,409,501 9,559,703 1.02×
    zero
    		 6,780,538 46,634,676 6.88×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 18,930 93,691 4.95×
    expmath
    		 4,089 23,881 5.84×
    fma
    		 1,397,236 7,813,275 5.59×
    fp
    		 259.06 1,431 5.53×
    fractal
    		 8.2 44.21 5.39×
    hyperbolic
    		 4,791 28,158 5.88×
    logmath
    		 6,123 39,433 6.44×
    matrix
    		 6,065 27,925 4.60×
    matrix-3d
    		 611.52 2,535 4.15×
    monte-carlo
    		 345.39 2,313 6.70×
    mpfr
    		 2,025 10,448 5.16×
    powmath
    		 2,258 14,125 6.26×
    trig
    		 3,220 16,378 5.09×
    veccmp
    		 29,125 134,376 4.61×
    vecfp
    		 1,735 9,054 5.22×
    vecmath
    		 4,606 25,627 5.56×
    vecshuf
    		 940.38 4,374 4.65×
    vecwide
    		 36,284 168,126 4.63×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 11.4 57.6 5.05×
    bsearch
    		 364.48 1,789 4.91×
    bubblesort
    		 1.4 6.4 4.57×
    fibsearch
    		 349.65 1,779 5.09×
    heapsort
    		 11.6 65.8 5.67×
    hsearch
    		 10,368 48,716 4.70×
    insertionsort
    		 15 59.8 3.99×
    malloc
    		 2,803,881 18,692,271 6.67×
    mcontend
    		 114.3 1,319 11.54×
    mergesort
    		 35.8 199.6 5.58×
    qsort
    		 26 142.2 5.47×
    skiplist
    		 7,390 45,797 6.20×
    tree
    		 1.8 10.6 5.89×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 258,144 937,668 3.63×
    cachehammer
    		 172,029 1,175,587 6.83×
    cacheline
    		 58.85 451.66 7.67×
    l1cache
    		 850.72 1,827 2.15×
    memcpy
    		 796.18 3,315 4.16×
    memrate
    		 0.15 1.07 7.13×
    memthrash
    		 106.67 325.51 3.05×
    ptr-chase
    		 31,966,003 135,099,974 4.23×
    spinmem
    		 355.18 538.89 1.52×
    stream
    		 4.81 152.22 31.65×
    vm
    		 165,551 292,468 1.77×

    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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