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D96ds_v5 by Microsoft Azure

D96ds_v5 is a DDSv5 family [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 96 vCPUs, 384 GiB of memory and 3.69 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.6816 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
384 GiB Memory
3.69 TB Storage
Spare SCore
93242
(All-cores)
1900
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D96ds_v5
Name
D96ds_v5
API Reference
Standard_D96ds_v5
Description
DDSv5 family [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs
Family
DDSv5
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-19T13:59:41.269479

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
1.0024 USD/h 5.424 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
1.0056 USD/h 5.424 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
1.145 USD/h 5.424 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
1.7823 USD/h 5.424 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
2.7163 USD/h 5.424 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
1.0644 USD/h 5.76 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
1.0822 USD/h 5.856 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 5.856 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 5.856 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
1.1025 USD/h 5.966 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
1.1177 USD/h 6.048 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
1.1177 USD/h 6.048 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
2.0841 USD/h 6.048 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
2.5299 USD/h 6.048 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
1.1256 USD/h 6.091 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
1.1256 USD/h 6.091 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
1.132 USD/h 6.129 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
1.1528 USD/h 6.238 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.8256 USD/h 6.288 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
1.1709 USD/h 6.336 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
1.1709 USD/h 6.336 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
1.1709 USD/h 6.336 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
1.1798 USD/h 6.384 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
1.2029 USD/h 6.509 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
1.2029 USD/h 6.509 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
1.2064 USD/h 6.528 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
1.2064 USD/h 6.528 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
1.2064 USD/h 6.528 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
1.2064 USD/h 6.528 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
1.2064 USD/h 6.528 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
1.2064 USD/h 6.528 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
1.2128 USD/h 6.563 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
1.2295 USD/h 6.653 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
1.2335 USD/h 6.653 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
1.233 USD/h 6.672 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
1.2548 USD/h 6.768 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.6816 USD/h 6.816 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
1.2596 USD/h 6.816 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
1.2596 USD/h 6.816 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
1.2831 USD/h 6.943 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
1.2951 USD/h 7.008 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
1.2951 USD/h 7.008 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
1.303 USD/h 7.051 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
1.3226 USD/h 7.157 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
1.327 USD/h 7.181 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
1.3371 USD/h 7.181 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
1.3306 USD/h 7.2 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
1.3749 USD/h 7.44 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
1.4034 USD/h 7.594 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
1.4134 USD/h 7.648 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
1.5222 USD/h 8.237 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
1.5682 USD/h 8.486 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.5967 USD/h 8.64 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
1.5983 USD/h 8.649 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
1.7251 USD/h 9.335 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
1.7262 USD/h 9.341 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
1.7475 USD/h 9.36 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
2.0757 USD/h 11.232 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
96
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
48
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8370C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
60 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
96 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, 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, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, fsrm, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
49.1
Scalability
102.29

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
384 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
384 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    3686 GB
    Storages
    • 3686 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A high-capacity virtual machine balancing ninety-six dedicated Intel vCPUs, local NVMe storage, and strong multi-threaded performance for enterprise databases.

    General PurposeStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure D96ds_v5 is an x86_64 general-purpose virtual machine from the DDSv5 family, powered by a dedicated Intel Xeon 8370C processor. It provides 96 vCPUs (48 physical cores) running at 2.8 GHz, 384.0 GB of RAM, and 3686 GB of local storage. Operating under the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, the instance supports AVX-512 and cryptographic acceleration. Benchmarks reveal strong multi-core CPU capabilities, high memory bandwidth, and excellent database operation throughput, though single-core performance and large-scale LLM text generation remain average to weak. This resource profile offers balanced cost efficiency for multi-threaded enterprise applications, database hosting, and high-throughput static web serving, while avoiding the premium cost of specialized GPU hardware.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    4.06Score
    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) 12,426,088 ops/sec 1,895,870 ops/sec 6.55 50.00% 50.00% +156.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 59,165,772 ops/sec 11,503,938 ops/sec 5.14 20.00% 20.00% +38.70%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,844 2,410 1.18 10.00% 10.00% +1.67%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 337,628 MB/sec 107,331 MB/sec 3.15 10.00% 10.00% +12.20%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,435 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.03 10.00% 10.00% +0.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,703

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 17,654

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		76173
    Compression
    		1434124
    Encryption
    		84840
    Extended Instructions
    		83043
    Floating Point Maths
    		206617
    Integer Maths
    		404018
    Physics
    		7644
    Prime Numbers
    		478
    Single Threaded
    		2435
    String Sorting
    		193387

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		2844
    Database Operations
    		30837
    Memory Latency
    		53
    Memory Read Cached
    		24198
    Memory Read Uncached
    		12136
    Memory Write
    		11065

    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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