D96plds_v6 by Microsoft Azure

D96plds_v6 is a Dpldsv6 family [ARM processor] [Low Memory] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 96 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 96 vCPUs, 192 GiB of memory and 5.67 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.4559 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
192 GiB Memory
5.67 TB Storage
Spare SCore
198,203
(All-cores)
2,075
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D96plds_v6
Name
D96plds_v6
API Reference
Standard_D96plds_v6
Description
Dpldsv6 family [ARM processor] [Low Memory] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 96 vCPUs
Family
Dpldsv6
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
122
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-25T01:32:09.320547

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.4559 USD/h 2.467 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.6919 USD/h 3.744 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.6919 USD/h 3.744 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.6919 USD/h 3.744 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.6919 USD/h 3.744 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
1.486 USD/h 3.744 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.7381 USD/h 3.994 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.761 USD/h 4.118 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.7699 USD/h 4.166 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.7699 USD/h 4.166 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.7736 USD/h 4.186 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
1.2483 USD/h 4.186 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.8205 USD/h 4.234 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.7983 USD/h 4.32 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.8054 USD/h 4.358 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.8091 USD/h 4.378 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.8091 USD/h 4.378 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.8094 USD/h 4.38 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.8268 USD/h 4.474 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.8268 USD/h 4.474 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.8268 USD/h 4.474 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.8303 USD/h 4.493 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.8303 USD/h 4.493 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.8373 USD/h 4.531 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.8462 USD/h 4.579 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.8639 USD/h 4.675 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.8639 USD/h 4.675 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.8906 USD/h 4.819 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.8924 USD/h 4.829 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.8994 USD/h 4.867 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.9734 USD/h 4.867 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.9734 USD/h 4.867 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.9734 USD/h 4.867 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.9029 USD/h 4.886 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.9066 USD/h 4.906 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.9526 USD/h 5.155 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.9704 USD/h 5.251 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.99 USD/h 5.357 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
1.1306 USD/h 5.653 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
1.0803 USD/h 5.846 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.0999 USD/h 5.952 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
1.2592 USD/h 6.814 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
1.2869 USD/h 6.964 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
1.3928 USD/h 6.964 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
95.5
Scalability
99.48

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

    An ARM-powered compute-optimized server featuring ninety-six dedicated cores and high-capacity local NVMe storage for demanding multi-threaded workloads.

    Compute OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure D96plds_v6 is an ARM-based virtual machine from the Dpldsv6 family, configured with 96 dedicated physical cores on a 3.4 GHz Microsoft Neoverse-N2 processor. It features 192.0 GB of system memory, yielding a compute-optimized 2.0 GB per core ratio, and includes a 5669 GB local NVMe SSD. Operating under Microsoft Hyper-V, this server delivers top-tier multi-core CPU performance, exceptional memory bandwidth, and high-throughput database capabilities, as evidenced by outstanding Redis and static web serving benchmarks. Single-core performance and cryptographic execution remain in the average tier. This hardware profile is highly cost-efficient for parallelized, compute-heavy tasks and high-speed database operations that require fast local storage but do not demand high memory-to-CPU ratios. It is ideal for software compilation, web serving, and multi-threaded data processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    5.4Score
    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) 16,707,253 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 8.9 50.00% 50.00% +200.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 104,495,588 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 8.3 20.00% 20.00% +53.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 3,389 2,416 1.4 10.00% 10.00% +3.40%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 515,490 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 4.7 10.00% 10.00% +17.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,881 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,690

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 23,762

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 56,582
    Compression
    		 657,210
    Encryption
    		 18,045
    Extended Instructions
    		 85,598
    Floating Point Maths
    		 506,939
    Integer Maths
    		 603,547
    Physics
    		 18,542
    Prime Numbers
    		 641
    Single Threaded
    		 1,881
    String Sorting
    		 477,795

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 3,389
    Database Operations
    		 37,880
    Memory Latency
    		 53
    Memory Read Cached
    		 25,488
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 19,479
    Memory Write
    		 25,741

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 194.07 9.41 0.05×
    bitops
    		 151,322 14,469,589 95.62×
    branch
    		 256,683 24,548,126 95.64×
    funccall
    		 1,906 182,466 95.74×
    funcret
    		 33,398 3,167,891 94.85×
    hash
    		 177,639 17,007,820 95.74×
    intmath
    		 39,251 3,740,606 95.30×
    nop
    		 457,135 43,724,541 95.65×
    prime
    		 487,809 46,783,643 95.91×
    rotate
    		 130,741 12,507,621 95.67×
    str
    		 695,575 66,514,288 95.62×
    wcs
    		 217,009 20,829,229 95.98×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 3,822 364,746 95.43×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 693.9 65,944 95.03×
    zlib
    		 47.43 4,449 93.81×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 26,814 266,554 9.94×
    clone
    		 295.13 11,953 40.50×
    context
    		 2,744 263,806 96.13×
    cpu-sched
    		 72.47 5,797 79.99×
    eventfd
    		 58,572 2,287,213 39.05×
    fault
    		 22,648 385,791 17.03×
    fork
    		 3,813 71,076 18.64×
    getrandom
    		 59,975 5,736,080 95.64×
    hrtimers
    		 312,709 12,284,652 39.28×
    mprotect
    		 1,166,519 20,653,865 17.71×
    mtx
    		 10,013,589 4,441,665,397 443.56×
    munmap
    		 2,782 79,016 28.41×
    null
    		 482,971 46,440,997 96.16×
    pipe
    		 859,015 41,831,221 48.70×
    priv-instr
    		 833,471 11,136,354 13.36×
    resched
    		 2,080,782 10,664,781 5.13×
    switch
    		 75,221 46,590,844 619.39×
    timermix
    		 632,054 59,560,819 94.23×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 14,775 251,295 17.01×
    vdso
    		 46,114,426 4,458,902,921 96.69×
    vfork
    		 26,033 264,791 10.17×
    yield
    		 122,230,920 117,583,023 0.96×
    zero
    		 2,761,550 264,904,770 95.93×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 2,130 203,798 95.66×
    expmath
    		 393.45 37,636 95.66×
    fma
    		 769,587 73,503,985 95.51×
    fp
    		 160.8 15,419 95.89×
    fractal
    		 7.8 738.43 94.67×
    hyperbolic
    		 387.39 37,063 95.67×
    logmath
    		 465.12 44,543 95.77×
    matrix
    		 6,602 632,471 95.80×
    matrix-3d
    		 1,049 21,498 20.50×
    monte-carlo
    		 214.31 20,288 94.67×
    mpfr
    		 1,445 138,416 95.79×
    powmath
    		 272.16 26,052 95.72×
    trig
    		 520.69 49,840 95.72×
    veccmp
    		 19,421 1,857,915 95.67×
    vecfp
    		 913.93 87,296 95.52×
    vecmath
    		 4,868 466,289 95.79×
    vecshuf
    		 998.16 97,530 97.71×
    vecwide
    		 24,717 2,383,353 96.43×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 9.4 891.38 94.83×
    bsearch
    		 382.39 36,537 95.55×
    bubblesort
    		 1.2 115.2 96.00×
    fibsearch
    		 433.22 41,379 95.51×
    heapsort
    		 13.4 1,265 94.43×
    hsearch
    		 6,993 668,152 95.54×
    insertionsort
    		 7.6 731.2 96.21×
    malloc
    		 3,097,082 164,781,144 53.21×
    mcontend
    		 210.11 226,609 1078.52×
    mergesort
    		 37.8 3,587 94.89×
    qsort
    		 24.4 2,342 95.97×
    skiplist
    		 7,045 672,929 95.52×
    tree
    		 1.4 72.69 51.92×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 436,018 5,226,528 11.99×
    cachehammer
    		 1,678,471 24,463,012 14.57×
    cacheline
    		 68.97 5,486 79.54×
    l1cache
    		 302.52 27,912 92.27×
    memcpy
    		 722.78 69,299 95.88×
    memrate
    		 5.34 72.12 13.51×
    memthrash
    		 264.57 712.98 2.69×
    ptr-chase
    		 23,335,553 745,959,272 31.97×
    spinmem
    		 3,423 99,961 29.20×
    stream
    		 12.59 15,054 1195.72×
    vm
    		 139,652 6,993,288 50.08×

    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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