D96pls_v6 by Microsoft Azure

D96pls_v6 is a Dplsv6 family [ARM processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 96 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 96 vCPUs, 192 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.3618 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
192 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
198,273
(All-cores)
2,075
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D96pls_v6
Name
D96pls_v6
API Reference
Standard_D96pls_v6
Description
Dplsv6 family [ARM processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 96 vCPUs
Family
Dplsv6
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
19
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-21T12:51:43.945784

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.3618 USD/h 1.958 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.55 USD/h 2.976 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.55 USD/h 2.976 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.55 USD/h 2.976 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.55 USD/h 2.976 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
1.0737 USD/h 2.976 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.5873 USD/h 3.178 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.605 USD/h 3.274 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.6121 USD/h 3.312 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.6121 USD/h 3.312 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.6156 USD/h 3.331 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.903 USD/h 3.331 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.6224 USD/h 3.37 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.5784 USD/h 3.437 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.6405 USD/h 3.466 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.6435 USD/h 3.482 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.644 USD/h 3.485 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.6858 USD/h 3.485 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.6583 USD/h 3.562 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.6583 USD/h 3.562 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.8225 USD/h 3.562 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.6599 USD/h 3.571 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.6599 USD/h 3.571 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.6671 USD/h 3.61 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.6723 USD/h 3.638 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.6865 USD/h 3.715 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.6865 USD/h 3.715 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.7078 USD/h 3.83 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.7096 USD/h 3.84 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.7167 USD/h 3.878 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.7185 USD/h 3.888 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.7204 USD/h 3.898 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.7575 USD/h 4.099 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.7717 USD/h 4.176 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.7876 USD/h 4.262 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.8586 USD/h 4.646 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.8747 USD/h 4.733 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
1.0009 USD/h 5.416 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
1.0229 USD/h 5.535 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
    0 GB
    Storages
    • 0 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An ARM-powered virtual machine delivering high multi-core compute density and top-tier memory bandwidth for compute-intensive, memory-lean workloads.

    Compute Optimized

    Microsoft Azure D96pls_v6 is an ARM-based virtual machine from the Dplsv6 family, featuring 96 dedicated physical cores powered by Microsoft Neoverse-N2 processors running at 3.4 GHz. Configured with 192.0 GB of RAM, it maintains a compute-focused 1:2 memory-to-core ratio. The server lacks local storage and GPUs but supports premium external storage. Benchmarks reveal top-tier multi-core performance, outstanding memory bandwidth, and excellent multi-threaded execution, contrasting with average single-core performance. This resource density makes it highly cost-efficient for compute-intensive, memory-lean workloads. It is optimized for software compilation, static web serving, database operations, and multi-threaded processing tasks.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    5.34Score
    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) 16,485,486 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 8.59 50.00% 50.00% +193.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 102,979,867 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 8.77 20.00% 20.00% +54.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 3,369 2,418 1.39 10.00% 10.00% +3.35%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 509,311 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 4.7 10.00% 10.00% +16.70%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,881 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.795 10.00% 10.00% -2.27%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,706

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 23,994

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 56579
    Compression
    		 657325
    Encryption
    		 18057
    Extended Instructions
    		 85630
    Floating Point Maths
    		 506888
    Integer Maths
    		 603864
    Physics
    		 18453
    Prime Numbers
    		 638
    Single Threaded
    		 1881
    String Sorting
    		 477291

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 3369
    Database Operations
    		 37922
    Memory Latency
    		 53
    Memory Read Cached
    		 25487
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 19101
    Memory Write
    		 25733

    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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    D48pls_v6 4896 GiB0
    D64pls_v6 64128 GiB0

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