D96lds_v7 by Microsoft Azure

D96lds_v7 is a Dldsv7 family [Low Memory] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 96 vCPUs, 192 GiB of memory and 5.67 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.1803 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
192 GiB Memory
5.67 TB Storage
Spare SCore
100,098
(All-cores)
2,279
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D96lds_v7
Name
D96lds_v7
API Reference
Standard_D96lds_v7
Description
Dldsv7 family [Low Memory] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs
Family
Dldsv7
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
125
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-03T20:30:52.964711

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central US (US) / centralus
1.1803 USD/h 6.387 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
1.1803 USD/h 6.387 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
1.2295 USD/h 6.653 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
1.2295 USD/h 6.653 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
1.2295 USD/h 6.653 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
1.2295 USD/h 6.653 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
1.2511 USD/h 6.77 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
1.2559 USD/h 6.796 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
1.303 USD/h 7.051 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
1.3646 USD/h 7.384 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
1.3692 USD/h 7.409 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
1.4163 USD/h 7.664 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
1.4163 USD/h 7.664 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
1.4163 USD/h 7.664 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
1.4193 USD/h 7.68 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
1.4542 USD/h 7.869 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
1.4542 USD/h 7.869 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
1.4753 USD/h 7.983 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
1.4753 USD/h 7.983 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
1.4832 USD/h 8.026 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
1.5344 USD/h 8.303 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
1.539 USD/h 8.328 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
1.558 USD/h 8.431 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.8885 USD/h 10.219 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
96
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
48
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
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
3 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
96 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
43.9
Scalability
45.73

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
192 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
192 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    5669 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 5669 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A high-compute, storage-bundled server with ninety-six vCPUs and local NVMe SSDs optimized for parallel processing and database workloads.

    Compute OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure D96lds_v7 is a compute-optimized, x86_64 server designed for high-throughput, CPU-intensive workloads. Powered by an Intel Xeon 6973P-C processor running at 4.2 GHz, it delivers 96 vCPUs and 192.0 GB of RAM, representing a 2.0 GB per vCPU ratio. The server includes a 5669 GB local NVMe SSD, providing high-speed storage capacity. Benchmarks show top-tier performance in Passmark CPU tests, multi-threaded decompression, Redis SET operations, and static web serving. It also excels in LLM prompt processing, utilizing Intel AMX and AVX-512 instruction sets. While highly cost-efficient for raw compute and storage-heavy tasks, its low memory-to-core ratio represents a tradeoff for memory-bound applications. It is best suited for high-performance databases, web serving, and parallel data processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    5.8Score
    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) 18,260,245 ops/sec 1,922,940 ops/sec 9.5 50.00% 50.00% +210.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 106,479,718 ops/sec 11,785,922 ops/sec 9.2 20.00% 20.00% +56.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,589 2,415 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 426,285 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 3.9 10.00% 10.00% +15.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,537 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.5 10.00% 10.00% +4.10%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 108,246
    Compression
    		 1,847,763
    Encryption
    		 104,936
    Extended Instructions
    		 125,495
    Floating Point Maths
    		 346,107
    Integer Maths
    		 477,565
    Physics
    		 14,117
    Prime Numbers
    		 935
    Single Threaded
    		 3,537
    String Sorting
    		 244,050

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,589
    Database Operations
    		 33,208
    Memory Latency
    		 75
    Memory Read Cached
    		 30,749
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 20,645
    Memory Write
    		 8,503

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 160.25 44.62 0.28×
    bitops
    		 175,094 8,693,813 49.65×
    branch
    		 163,708 11,226,250 68.57×
    funccall
    		 902.48 51,232 56.77×
    funcret
    		 14,697 1,005,082 68.39×
    hash
    		 196,342 12,585,069 64.10×
    intmath
    		 75,489 4,018,214 53.23×
    nop
    		 308,831 14,326,976 46.39×
    prime
    		 560,393 32,198,760 57.46×
    rotate
    		 114,859 8,714,278 75.87×
    str
    		 1,047,813 68,936,158 65.79×
    wcs
    		 796,420 40,201,384 50.48×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 3,969 211,151 53.20×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 968.32 52,394 54.11×
    zlib
    		 73.78 4,872 66.03×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 26,644 187,349 7.03×
    clone
    		 1,393 36,653 26.31×
    context
    		 6,153 452,618 73.56×
    cpu-sched
    		 60.88 5,976 98.16×
    eventfd
    		 40,329 2,486,316 61.65×
    fault
    		 22,446 256,762 11.44×
    fork
    		 5,584 58,029 10.39×
    getrandom
    		 68,170 4,375,360 64.18×
    hrtimers
    		 155,094 10,095,626 65.09×
    mprotect
    		 783,366 19,289,014 24.62×
    mtx
    		 33,030,028 2,940,505,591 89.03×
    munmap
    		 4,311 63,909 14.83×
    null
    		 1,025,902 70,501,126 68.72×
    pipe
    		 698,741 69,862,950 99.98×
    priv-instr
    		 1,014,693 8,307,074 8.19×
    resched
    		 13,310,332 11,716,567 0.88×
    switch
    		 50,262 19,285,550 383.70×
    timermix
    		 252,762 16,314,139 64.54×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 5,247 127,284 24.26×
    tsc
    		 1,054,540 72,041,582 68.32×
    usersyscall
    		 865,086 8,531,511 9.86×
    vdso
    		 124,306,202 8,477,511,407 68.20×
    vfork
    		 23,800 192,131 8.07×
    x86syscall
    		 12,081,072 895,335,527 74.11×
    yield
    		 150,802,040 136,499,370 0.91×
    zero
    		 6,610,985 487,008,983 73.67×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 19,339 1,034,258 53.48×
    expmath
    		 4,115 265,017 64.40×
    fma
    		 1,395,435 82,695,803 59.26×
    fp
    		 237.34 15,397 64.87×
    fractal
    		 8.2 479.05 58.42×
    hyperbolic
    		 4,637 301,909 65.11×
    logmath
    		 6,072 419,266 69.04×
    matrix
    		 5,882 313,796 53.35×
    matrix-3d
    		 616.07 13,297 21.58×
    monte-carlo
    		 345.23 25,120 72.76×
    mpfr
    		 1,883 111,369 59.14×
    powmath
    		 2,297 149,852 65.25×
    trig
    		 3,167 182,569 57.65×
    veccmp
    		 28,909 1,462,595 50.59×
    vecfp
    		 1,708 95,131 55.70×
    vecmath
    		 4,515 281,408 62.33×
    vecshuf
    		 954.15 47,772 50.07×
    vecwide
    		 36,632 1,846,656 50.41×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 11.4 617.78 54.19×
    bsearch
    		 358.75 20,069 55.94×
    bubblesort
    		 1.4 59.8 42.71×
    fibsearch
    		 347.39 18,261 52.57×
    heapsort
    		 11.6 685.37 59.08×
    hsearch
    		 9,768 519,219 53.15×
    insertionsort
    		 14.8 634.8 42.89×
    malloc
    		 2,860,874 87,438,047 30.56×
    mcontend
    		 69.87 14,430 206.53×
    mergesort
    		 36.2 2,229 61.57×
    qsort
    		 24.2 1,550 64.03×
    skiplist
    		 7,425 492,703 66.36×
    tree
    		 2 80.99 40.49×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 293,001 8,829,969 30.14×
    cachehammer
    		 157,005 7,742,979 49.32×
    cacheline
    		 38.77 3,111 80.25×
    l1cache
    		 849.19 17,596 20.72×
    memcpy
    		 758.51 35,051 46.21×
    memrate
    		 0.14 11.41 81.50×
    memthrash
    		 194.3 1,580 8.13×
    ptr-chase
    		 29,640,340 670,082,113 22.61×
    spinmem
    		 353.59 683.65 1.93×
    stream
    		 2.27 2,699 1189.05×
    vm
    		 203,349 303,849 1.49×

    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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