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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 0.5516 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
192 GiB Memory
5.67 TB Storage
Spare SCore
198203
(All-cores)
2075
(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
2026-07-27T11:41:38.097634

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.5516 USD/h 2.467 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 2 (US) / eastus2
0.8806 USD/h 3.744 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
1.1696 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
0.9829 USD/h 4.186 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.8362 USD/h 4.234 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.5988 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
1.077 USD/h 4.378 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
1.2299 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
1.1264 USD/h 4.579 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.8981 USD/h 4.675 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
1.0453 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
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
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
1.0803 USD/h 5.846 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.0999 USD/h 5.952 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
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 compute-dense, 96-core ARM server featuring high-capacity local storage, optimized for multi-threaded processing and high-throughput database workloads.

    Compute OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure D96plds_v6 is an ARM-based server featuring 96 dedicated physical cores of the Microsoft Neoverse-N2 processor running at 3.4 GHz. Operating on the arm64 architecture under Microsoft Hyper-V, it is configured with 192.0 GB of RAM, representing a compute-dense 2.0 GB per core ratio. The server includes 5669 GB of local storage with Premium Storage capabilities but lacks GPU hardware. In benchmark testing, the D96plds_v6 delivers top-tier multi-core CPU performance, exceptional memory bandwidth, and outstanding database and Redis SET operation throughput. Conversely, single-core metrics remain in the average tier. This hardware profile provides high qualitative cost efficiency for compute-heavy, multi-threaded workloads that do not demand extensive memory allocations. It is highly suited for software compilation, high-throughput static web serving, Redis caching, and database workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    5.46Score
    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 1,896,415 ops/sec 8.81 50.00% 50.00% +197.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 104,495,588 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 9.06 20.00% 20.00% +55.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 3,389 2,411 1.41 10.00% 10.00% +3.50%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 515,490 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 4.8 10.00% 10.00% +17.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,881 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.796 10.00% 10.00% -2.26%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,690

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 23,762

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 56582
    Compression
    		 657210
    Encryption
    		 18045
    Extended Instructions
    		 85598
    Floating Point Maths
    		 506939
    Integer Maths
    		 603547
    Physics
    		 18542
    Prime Numbers
    		 641
    Single Threaded
    		 1881
    String Sorting
    		 477795

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 3389
    Database Operations
    		 37880
    Memory Latency
    		 53
    Memory Read Cached
    		 25488
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 19479
    Memory Write
    		 25741

    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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    D16plds_v6 1632 GiB0
    D32plds_v6 3264 GiB0
    D48plds_v6 4896 GiB0
    D64plds_v6 64128 GiB0

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