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
93,246
(All-cores)
1,900
(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
2026-11-06T09:11:39.561237

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.8516 USD/h 4.608 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
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
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
1.3216 USD/h 4.608 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.8959 USD/h 4.848 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
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
1.1823 USD/h 5.136 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
1.8526 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
0.9846 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
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
1.0644 USD/h 5.76 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
1.0679 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
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.3572 USD/h 7.344 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
1.3572 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
1.4645 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
51.15

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-core general-purpose instance featuring dedicated Intel processors and balanced memory configuration for demanding multi-threaded enterprise workloads.

      General Purpose

      Microsoft Azure D96s_v5 is a general-purpose virtual machine from the DSv5 family, powered by an Intel Xeon 8370C processor. It delivers 96 dedicated vCPUs across 48 physical cores, paired with 384.0 GB of RAM, maintaining a balanced 1:4 vCPU-to-memory ratio. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this instance lacks local storage and GPUs but supports Premium Storage for external disk configurations. Benchmarks show strong multi-core processing, high memory bandwidth, and top-tier cryptographic performance, though single-core execution and large-scale LLM inference remain average to weak. Qualitatively, its high resource density provides a cost-effective platform for multi-threaded workloads without the premium of bundled local disks. It is highly suitable for database operations, web serving, and software compilation.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      4.2Score
      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) 12,546,801 ops/sec 1,936,298 ops/sec 6.8 50.00% 50.00% +160.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 66,399,445 ops/sec 11,797,257 ops/sec 5.5 20.00% 20.00% +41.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,875 2,407 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 335,563 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 3.1 10.00% 10.00% +12.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,436 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,699

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 17,760

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 76,513
      Compression
      		 1,434,960
      Encryption
      		 87,443
      Extended Instructions
      		 83,805
      Floating Point Maths
      		 206,630
      Integer Maths
      		 404,164
      Physics
      		 7,524
      Prime Numbers
      		 476
      Single Threaded
      		 2,436
      String Sorting
      		 199,738

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,875
      Database Operations
      		 30,812
      Memory Latency
      		 51
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24,336
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 12,454
      Memory Write
      		 11,286

      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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