D8nls_v6 by Microsoft Azure

D8nls_v6 is a Dnlv6 family [Network Optimized] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0592 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
7,031
(All-cores)
1,758
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D8nls_v6
Name
D8nls_v6
API Reference
Standard_D8nls_v6
Description
Dnlv6 family [Network Optimized] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
Dnlv6
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
15
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-25T13:14:46.911162

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0838 USD/h 0.454 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0839 USD/h 0.454 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0839 USD/h 0.454 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0839 USD/h 0.454 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0839 USD/h 0.454 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0839 USD/h 0.454 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0957 USD/h 0.454 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.454 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.454 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.09 USD/h 0.487 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0917 USD/h 0.496 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0917 USD/h 0.496 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0922 USD/h 0.499 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0946 USD/h 0.512 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0946 USD/h 0.512 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0955 USD/h 0.517 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0955 USD/h 0.517 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0955 USD/h 0.517 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0955 USD/h 0.517 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0963 USD/h 0.521 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0965 USD/h 0.522 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0859 USD/h 0.538 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0994 USD/h 0.538 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0994 USD/h 0.538 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1002 USD/h 0.542 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1005 USD/h 0.544 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1005 USD/h 0.544 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1015 USD/h 0.549 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.104 USD/h 0.563 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1048 USD/h 0.567 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.105 USD/h 0.568 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.105 USD/h 0.568 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1052 USD/h 0.569 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1055 USD/h 0.571 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1055 USD/h 0.571 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.1074 USD/h 0.581 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.109 USD/h 0.59 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0592 USD/h 0.592 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.1094 USD/h 0.592 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1094 USD/h 0.592 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1111 USD/h 0.601 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1127 USD/h 0.61 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.1183 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.1199 USD/h 0.649 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.1199 USD/h 0.649 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.1242 USD/h 0.672 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1288 USD/h 0.697 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.1292 USD/h 0.699 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.1368 USD/h 0.74 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.1465 USD/h 0.793 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.1558 USD/h 0.843 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.156 USD/h 0.844 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.1674 USD/h 0.906 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
8573C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
192 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
260 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
260 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
Scalability
50

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
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A network-optimized, low-memory compute instance featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors and advanced matrix extensions for efficient throughput.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Microsoft Azure D8nls_v6 is an x86_64 network-optimized virtual machine from the Dnlv6 family, powered by an Intel Xeon 8573C processor. It features 8 dedicated vCPUs (4 physical cores) running at 4.2 GHz, backed by a 260 MB L3 cache and 16.0 GB of RAM. This low-memory configuration (2.0 GB per core) does not include local storage but supports premium external storage. Benchmarks indicate average multi-core performance with a stress-ng score of 7031.14 and a PassMark CPU score of 12481.2. It shows strong performance in small-model text generation (264.1 tokens/sec) and handles 9.63 million Redis SET operations per second. The server is designed for network-bound workloads, static web serving, and lightweight compute tasks where high memory density is not required.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.7Score
      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) 1,211,766 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.63 50.00% 50.00% -21.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,634,126 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.55 20.00% 20.00% -11.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,942 2,416 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 122,197 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,636 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 12,481
      Compression
      		 125,601
      Encryption
      		 7,340
      Extended Instructions
      		 9,388
      Floating Point Maths
      		 23,640
      Integer Maths
      		 33,524
      Physics
      		 1,679
      Prime Numbers
      		 71
      Single Threaded
      		 2,636
      String Sorting
      		 16,767

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,942
      Database Operations
      		 4,337
      Memory Latency
      		 72
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24,266
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9,193
      Memory Write
      		 8,529

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 226.31 211.42 0.93×
      bitops
      		 135,379 636,375 4.70×
      branch
      		 126,998 769,177 6.06×
      funccall
      		 684.1 3,522 5.15×
      funcret
      		 11,334 70,975 6.26×
      hash
      		 161,183 916,109 5.68×
      intmath
      		 59,375 269,460 4.54×
      nop
      		 239,345 753,202 3.15×
      prime
      		 433,976 2,049,844 4.72×
      rotate
      		 90,132 377,682 4.19×
      str
      		 850,472 4,705,739 5.53×
      wcs
      		 633,182 3,028,018 4.78×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,051 13,822 4.53×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 739.24 3,880 5.25×
      zlib
      		 47.53 345.67 7.27×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 39,537 174,912 4.42×
      clone
      		 1,392 3,819 2.74×
      context
      		 4,794 31,002 6.47×
      cpu-sched
      		 64.69 523.06 8.09×
      eventfd
      		 38,303 867,250 22.64×
      fault
      		 19,291 78,041 4.05×
      fork
      		 5,444 26,146 4.80×
      getrandom
      		 53,466 309,979 5.80×
      hrtimers
      		 686,399 1,044,629 1.52×
      mprotect
      		 901,818 2,512,745 2.79×
      mtx
      		 12,262,087 197,789,076 16.13×
      munmap
      		 4,226 21,112 5.00×
      null
      		 787,575 4,860,280 6.17×
      pipe
      		 666,111 6,103,038 9.16×
      priv-instr
      		 785,813 4,077,225 5.19×
      resched
      		 2,966,919 633,439 0.21×
      switch
      		 83,854 2,214,046 26.40×
      timermix
      		 223,115 1,453,556 6.51×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 10,777 16,576 1.54×
      tsc
      		 828,575 4,940,830 5.96×
      usersyscall
      		 653,799 3,539,857 5.41×
      vdso
      		 97,152,165 554,591,263 5.71×
      vfork
      		 27,594 168,219 6.10×
      x86syscall
      		 9,523,401 62,633,508 6.58×
      yield
      		 6,185,343 6,129,388 0.99×
      zero
      		 5,263,697 33,645,259 6.39×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 14,632 74,591 5.10×
      expmath
      		 3,170 18,169 5.73×
      fma
      		 1,169,198 6,017,032 5.15×
      fp
      		 196.8 1,093 5.56×
      fractal
      		 5.8 33 5.69×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,691 20,717 5.61×
      logmath
      		 4,685 29,177 6.23×
      matrix
      		 4,335 21,453 4.95×
      matrix-3d
      		 685.28 3,060 4.46×
      monte-carlo
      		 269.57 1,725 6.40×
      mpfr
      		 1,581 7,238 4.58×
      powmath
      		 1,787 10,582 5.92×
      trig
      		 2,445 12,509 5.12×
      veccmp
      		 22,729 103,072 4.53×
      vecfp
      		 1,393 6,800 4.88×
      vecmath
      		 3,560 19,557 5.49×
      vecshuf
      		 748.91 3,354 4.48×
      vecwide
      		 31,894 150,895 4.73×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 8 37.2 4.65×
      bsearch
      		 263.06 1,284 4.88×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 4.8 6.00×
      fibsearch
      		 283.96 1,403 4.94×
      heapsort
      		 9 48 5.33×
      hsearch
      		 7,716 35,673 4.62×
      insertionsort
      		 11.6 40.4 3.48×
      malloc
      		 2,604,082 16,037,431 6.16×
      mcontend
      		 109.45 1,377 12.58×
      mergesort
      		 27.8 155.8 5.60×
      qsort
      		 20 108.8 5.44×
      skiplist
      		 4,902 30,434 6.21×
      tree
      		 1.6 9.6 6.00×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 271,416 726,516 2.68×
      cachehammer
      		 199,466 1,404,704 7.04×
      cacheline
      		 56.94 448.02 7.87×
      l1cache
      		 987.39 1,479 1.50×
      memcpy
      		 399.88 1,524 3.81×
      memrate
      		 0.13 0.97 7.46×
      memthrash
      		 130.39 356.36 2.73×
      ptr-chase
      		 34,550,897 239,319,632 6.93×
      spinmem
      		 311.19 449.53 1.44×
      stream
      		 6.59 250.73 38.05×
      vm
      		 176,482 292,437 1.66×

      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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