D96ps_v6 by Microsoft Azure

D96ps_v6 is a Dpsv6 family [ARM processor] [Premium Storage capable] 96 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 96 vCPUs, 384 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.4099 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
384 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
198,196
(All-cores)
2,075
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D96ps_v6
Name
D96ps_v6
API Reference
Standard_D96ps_v6
Description
Dpsv6 family [ARM processor] [Premium Storage capable] 96 vCPUs
Family
Dpsv6
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-31T22:16:56.371093

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.4099 USD/h 2.218 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.6228 USD/h 3.37 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.6228 USD/h 3.37 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.6228 USD/h 3.37 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.6228 USD/h 3.37 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
1.3376 USD/h 3.37 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.6634 USD/h 3.59 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.6849 USD/h 3.706 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.6919 USD/h 3.744 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.6919 USD/h 3.744 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.6954 USD/h 3.763 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
1.1221 USD/h 3.763 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.7368 USD/h 3.802 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.7185 USD/h 3.888 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.7239 USD/h 3.917 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.7274 USD/h 3.936 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.7274 USD/h 3.936 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.7285 USD/h 3.942 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.7433 USD/h 4.022 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.7433 USD/h 4.022 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.7433 USD/h 4.022 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.747 USD/h 4.042 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.747 USD/h 4.042 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.7521 USD/h 4.07 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.7593 USD/h 4.109 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.7752 USD/h 4.195 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.7752 USD/h 4.195 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.8002 USD/h 4.33 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.8018 USD/h 4.339 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.8091 USD/h 4.378 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.876 USD/h 4.38 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.876 USD/h 4.38 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.876 USD/h 4.38 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.8107 USD/h 4.387 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.8142 USD/h 4.406 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.8569 USD/h 4.637 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.8728 USD/h 4.723 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.8906 USD/h 4.819 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
1.0176 USD/h 5.088 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.9704 USD/h 5.251 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.99 USD/h 5.357 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
1.1334 USD/h 6.133 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
1.1581 USD/h 6.267 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
1.2534 USD/h 6.267 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
384 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
384 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A high-density ARM64 platform delivering exceptional multi-core throughput and memory bandwidth for balanced, scale-out enterprise workloads.

      General Purpose

      Microsoft Azure D96ps_v6 is an ARM64 general-purpose server instance powered by a 96-core Microsoft ARM Neoverse-N2 processor running at 3.4 GHz. It features 384.0 GB of RAM, translating to a balanced 4.0 GB of memory per core, with no hyperthreading or bundled local storage. The instance delivers top-tier performance in multi-core processing, memory bandwidth, and database operations, as evidenced by outstanding stress-ng and Redis benchmark results. Single-core performance remains moderate. This hardware profile offers a cost-effective, high-density solution for multi-threaded workloads, making it highly suitable for software compilation, static web serving, database management, and Redis deployments.

      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) 16,579,202 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 8.9 50.00% 50.00% +200.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 101,708,811 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 8.3 20.00% 20.00% +53.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 3,386 2,416 1.4 10.00% 10.00% +3.40%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 514,765 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 4.6 10.00% 10.00% +16.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,879 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,694

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 23,882

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 56,580
      Compression
      		 657,033
      Encryption
      		 18,049
      Extended Instructions
      		 85,626
      Floating Point Maths
      		 506,961
      Integer Maths
      		 603,799
      Physics
      		 18,682
      Prime Numbers
      		 648
      Single Threaded
      		 1,879
      String Sorting
      		 478,148

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 3,386
      Database Operations
      		 38,023
      Memory Latency
      		 53
      Memory Read Cached
      		 25,411
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 19,709
      Memory Write
      		 25,726

      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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