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D96pds_v6 by Microsoft Azure

D96pds_v6 is a Dpdsv6 family [ARM processor] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 96 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 96 vCPUs, 384 GiB of memory and 5.67 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.5357 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
384 GiB Memory
5.67 TB Storage
Spare SCore
198273
(All-cores)
2075
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D96pds_v6
Name
D96pds_v6
API Reference
Standard_D96pds_v6
Description
Dpdsv6 family [ARM processor] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 96 vCPUs
Family
Dpdsv6
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
126
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-05T00:23:15.522076

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.5357 USD/h 2.899 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.8142 USD/h 4.406 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.8142 USD/h 4.406 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.8142 USD/h 4.406 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.8292 USD/h 4.406 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
1.4452 USD/h 4.406 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.8675 USD/h 4.694 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.8959 USD/h 4.848 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.9048 USD/h 4.896 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.9048 USD/h 4.896 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.9101 USD/h 4.925 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
1.214 USD/h 4.925 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.9202 USD/h 4.982 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.7754 USD/h 5.078 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.9473 USD/h 5.126 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.9526 USD/h 5.155 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
1.031 USD/h 5.155 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
1.2681 USD/h 5.155 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.9739 USD/h 5.27 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.9739 USD/h 5.27 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
1.1589 USD/h 5.27 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.9776 USD/h 5.29 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.9776 USD/h 5.29 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.9865 USD/h 5.338 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
1.058 USD/h 5.376 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
1.0147 USD/h 5.491 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
1.0147 USD/h 5.491 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
1.0467 USD/h 5.664 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
1.0502 USD/h 5.683 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
1.0591 USD/h 5.731 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
1.0626 USD/h 5.75 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
1.0663 USD/h 5.77 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
1.1212 USD/h 6.067 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
1.1424 USD/h 6.182 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
1.1655 USD/h 6.307 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
1.2703 USD/h 6.874 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.2951 USD/h 7.008 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
1.604 USD/h 8.02 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
1.6392 USD/h 8.196 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
96
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
96
CPU Speed
3.4 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Manufacturer
Microsoft
CPU Family
ARM
CPU Model
Neoverse-N2
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
6 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
6 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
96 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
128 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
128 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, atomics, fphp, asimdhp, cpuid, asimdrdm, jscvt, fcma, lrcpc, dcpop, sha3, sm3, sm4, asimddp, sha512, sve, asimdfhm, uscat, ilrcpc, flagm, ssbs, sb, paca, pacg, dcpodp, sve2, sveaes, svebitperm, svesha3, svesm4, flagm2, frint, svei8mm, svebf16, i8mm, bf16
Ecpus
95.6
Scalability
99.58

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
    5669 GB
    Storages
    • 0 GB ssd (temp disk)
    • 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-density ARM-based server featuring ninety-six dedicated cores, massive local storage, and top-tier multi-threaded memory bandwidth for demanding database workloads.

    General PurposeStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure D96pds_v6 is an ARM-based virtual machine from the Dpdsv6 family, featuring 96 dedicated physical cores on a 3.4 GHz Microsoft Neoverse-N2 processor. It is configured with 384.0 GB of RAM and 5669 GB of local storage. Operating under Microsoft Hyper-V, the server delivers top-tier multi-core and memory bandwidth performance, as evidenced by its stress-ng multi-core score of 198272.95 and 10895.42 GB/sec cached read bandwidth. While single-core performance remains average, its multi-threaded capabilities, high-speed database operations, and substantial local storage make it highly efficient for database hosting, static web serving, and software compilation.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    5.42Score
    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) 16,692,666 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 8.74 50.00% 50.00% +196.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 104,232,553 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 8.98 20.00% 20.00% +55.10%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 3,409 2,416 1.41 10.00% 10.00% +3.50%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 510,052 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 4.73 10.00% 10.00% +16.80%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,878 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.794 10.00% 10.00% -2.28%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,704

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 23,821

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 56533
    Compression
    		 657237
    Encryption
    		 18048
    Extended Instructions
    		 85611
    Floating Point Maths
    		 507175
    Integer Maths
    		 603704
    Physics
    		 18513
    Prime Numbers
    		 631
    Single Threaded
    		 1878
    String Sorting
    		 477592

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 3409
    Database Operations
    		 38194
    Memory Latency
    		 52
    Memory Read Cached
    		 25385
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 19748
    Memory Write
    		 25740

    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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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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    D4pds_v6 416 GiB0
    D8pds_v6 832 GiB0
    D16pds_v6 1664 GiB0
    D32pds_v6 32128 GiB0
    D48pds_v6 48192 GiB0
    D64pds_v6 64256 GiB0

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