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D96s_v5 by Microsoft Azure

D96s_v5 is a DSv5 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 96 vCPUs, 384 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.576 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
384 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
93246
(All-cores)
1900
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D96s_v5
Name
D96s_v5
API Reference
Standard_D96s_v5
Description
DSv5 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs
Family
DSv5
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-06-24T09:55:57.141630

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.8516 USD/h 4.608 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.8543 USD/h 4.608 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.9727 USD/h 4.608 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
1.752 USD/h 4.608 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
2.2939 USD/h 4.608 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.8959 USD/h 4.848 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 4.848 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 4.848 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.9048 USD/h 4.896 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.9368 USD/h 5.069 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.9491 USD/h 5.136 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.9491 USD/h 5.136 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
1.5634 USD/h 5.136 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
2.21 USD/h 5.136 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.958 USD/h 5.184 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.958 USD/h 5.184 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.9612 USD/h 5.207 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.9793 USD/h 5.299 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.7129 USD/h 5.328 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.9935 USD/h 5.376 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.9935 USD/h 5.376 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.9935 USD/h 5.376 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.9967 USD/h 5.376 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
1.0201 USD/h 5.52 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
1.0201 USD/h 5.52 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
1.0201 USD/h 5.52 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
1.0201 USD/h 5.52 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
1.0201 USD/h 5.52 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
1.0201 USD/h 5.52 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
1.0219 USD/h 5.53 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
1.0219 USD/h 5.53 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
1.0304 USD/h 5.576 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
1.0441 USD/h 5.65 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
1.0441 USD/h 5.65 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
1.0467 USD/h 5.664 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.576 USD/h 5.76 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
1.0644 USD/h 5.76 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
1.0679 USD/h 5.76 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
1.3185 USD/h 5.76 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
1.0899 USD/h 5.898 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
1.0999 USD/h 5.952 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
1.0999 USD/h 5.952 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
1.107 USD/h 5.99 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
1.1177 USD/h 6.048 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
1.1221 USD/h 6.072 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
1.1251 USD/h 6.072 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
1.1265 USD/h 6.096 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
1.1709 USD/h 6.336 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
1.1921 USD/h 6.451 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
1.2006 USD/h 6.497 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
1.2916 USD/h 6.989 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
1.3261 USD/h 7.176 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
1.3572 USD/h 7.344 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.3645 USD/h 7.344 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
1.4571 USD/h 7.885 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
1.4588 USD/h 7.894 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
1.4899 USD/h 7.925 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
1.7643 USD/h 9.547 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
96
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
48
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8370C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
60 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
96 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, fsrm, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
49.1
Scalability
102.29

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
    0 GB
    Storages
    • 0 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A high-capacity, multi-core virtual machine delivering balanced memory and compute resources for parallelized enterprise applications and database workloads.

    General Purpose

    Microsoft Azure D96s_v5 is a general-purpose virtual machine from the DSv5 family, powered by an Intel Xeon 8370C x86_64 processor. It features 96 dedicated vCPUs across 48 physical cores, 384.0 GB of system memory, and no local storage or GPUs. Operating under the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, the instance delivers strong multi-core performance and memory bandwidth, ranking in the top 25% across multiple benchmarks. It excels in cryptographic tasks, achieving top-tier encryption scores due to AVX-512 support. However, single-core performance is average, and large-scale LLM text generation is weak without GPU acceleration. This instance is best suited for highly parallelized workloads, including static web serving, software compilation, and database operations.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,699

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 17,760

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		76513
    Compression
    		1434960
    Encryption
    		87443
    Extended Instructions
    		83805
    Floating Point Maths
    		206630
    Integer Maths
    		404164
    Physics
    		7524
    Prime Numbers
    		476
    Single Threaded
    		2436
    String Sorting
    		199738

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		2875
    Database Operations
    		30812
    Memory Latency
    		51
    Memory Read Cached
    		24336
    Memory Read Uncached
    		12454
    Memory Write
    		11286

    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

    Alternatives

    Servers of the Same Family

    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    D2s_v5 28 GiB0
    D4s_v5 416 GiB0
    D8s_v5 832 GiB0
    D16s_v5 1664 GiB0
    D32s_v5 32128 GiB0
    D48s_v5 48192 GiB0
    D64s_v5 64256 GiB0

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