D96s_v6 by Microsoft Azure

D96s_v6 is a Dsv6 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 0.6048 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
384 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
81,379
(All-cores)
1,948
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D96s_v6
Name
D96s_v6
API Reference
Standard_D96s_v6
Description
Dsv6 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs
Family
Dsv6
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
13
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-27T21:24:32.143945

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.8941 USD/h 4.838 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.8941 USD/h 4.838 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.8941 USD/h 4.838 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.8941 USD/h 4.838 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
1.0203 USD/h 4.838 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.9403 USD/h 5.088 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.9408 USD/h 5.091 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 5.091 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 5.091 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.9501 USD/h 5.141 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.9835 USD/h 5.322 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.9966 USD/h 5.393 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.9966 USD/h 5.393 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.9966 USD/h 5.393 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.9966 USD/h 5.393 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
1.0098 USD/h 5.467 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
1.0282 USD/h 5.564 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.8935 USD/h 5.595 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
1.0432 USD/h 5.645 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
1.0432 USD/h 5.645 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
1.0432 USD/h 5.645 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
1.0432 USD/h 5.645 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
1.0711 USD/h 5.796 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
1.0711 USD/h 5.796 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
1.0711 USD/h 5.796 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
1.0729 USD/h 5.806 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
1.0729 USD/h 5.806 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
1.0733 USD/h 5.808 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
1.0733 USD/h 5.808 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
1.0733 USD/h 5.808 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
1.0818 USD/h 5.854 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
1.0962 USD/h 5.932 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
1.099 USD/h 5.947 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
1.0997 USD/h 5.951 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.6048 USD/h 6.048 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
1.1177 USD/h 6.048 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
1.1177 USD/h 6.048 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
1.1177 USD/h 6.048 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
1.1445 USD/h 6.193 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
1.155 USD/h 6.25 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
1.155 USD/h 6.25 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
1.1624 USD/h 6.29 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
1.1892 USD/h 6.435 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
1.1892 USD/h 6.435 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
1.2295 USD/h 6.653 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
1.2607 USD/h 6.822 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
1.2786 USD/h 6.919 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
1.3561 USD/h 7.338 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
1.3925 USD/h 7.535 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.4252 USD/h 7.712 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
1.4252 USD/h 7.712 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
1.5318 USD/h 8.289 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
1.5377 USD/h 8.321 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
1.8133 USD/h 9.812 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
1.8524 USD/h 10.024 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
96
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
48
CPU Speed
4.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8573C
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
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
96 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
260 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
260 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, user_shstk, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, waitpkg, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, serialize, tsxldtrk, ibt, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
41.8
Scalability
43.54

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

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A high-core general-purpose instance featuring advanced Intel matrix extensions for accelerated multi-threaded computing and enterprise-scale workloads.

      General PurposeCompute Optimized

      The Microsoft Azure D96s_v6 is a general-purpose virtual machine from the Dsv6 family, powered by an Intel Xeon 8573C x86_64 processor. It delivers 96 vCPUs across 48 physical cores at 4.2 GHz, paired with 384.0 GB of RAM. While it lacks local storage and GPUs, it supports Premium Storage for remote disks. Benchmarks show top-tier multi-core performance, particularly in PassMark CPU tests and static web serving, alongside strong multi-threaded decompression and software compilation. Conversely, single-core metrics and memory scores are more modest. With advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and Intel AMX, this instance is highly efficient for parallelized workloads, database operations, and CPU-based LLM inference.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      4.1Score
      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) 15,015,854 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 7.9 50.00% 50.00% +180.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 72,238,912 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 6 20.00% 20.00% +43.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,752 2,416 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 173,721 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 1.5 10.00% 10.00% +4.10%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,922 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,850

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 17,846

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 85,698
      Compression
      		 1,366,678
      Encryption
      		 84,479
      Extended Instructions
      		 106,182
      Floating Point Maths
      		 270,859
      Integer Maths
      		 382,242
      Physics
      		 8,908
      Prime Numbers
      		 690
      Single Threaded
      		 2,922
      String Sorting
      		 177,593

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,752
      Database Operations
      		 25,129
      Memory Latency
      		 104
      Memory Read Cached
      		 26,250
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 7,509
      Memory Write
      		 6,705

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 267.92 103.42 0.39×
      bitops
      		 145,257 7,210,948 49.64×
      branch
      		 136,517 8,711,113 63.81×
      funccall
      		 740.47 38,650 52.20×
      funcret
      		 12,339 804,137 65.17×
      hash
      		 172,180 10,361,279 60.18×
      intmath
      		 63,939 3,145,401 49.19×
      nop
      		 260,845 8,529,422 32.70×
      prime
      		 474,475 22,468,116 47.35×
      rotate
      		 98,055 4,266,403 43.51×
      str
      		 917,838 49,065,209 53.46×
      wcs
      		 701,404 32,290,057 46.04×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,221 156,173 48.48×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 834.9 41,583 49.81×
      zlib
      		 54.18 3,698 68.25×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 26,521 218,480 8.24×
      clone
      		 1,441 37,519 26.03×
      context
      		 5,296 353,169 66.68×
      cpu-sched
      		 65.42 6,040 92.33×
      eventfd
      		 34,497 2,287,522 66.31×
      fault
      		 20,734 278,168 13.42×
      fork
      		 5,058 61,955 12.25×
      getrandom
      		 57,914 3,486,316 60.20×
      hrtimers
      		 461,471 11,612,152 25.16×
      mprotect
      		 952,652 19,407,417 20.37×
      mtx
      		 14,635,143 1,976,677,701 135.06×
      munmap
      		 4,035 66,784 16.55×
      null
      		 865,647 54,028,027 62.41×
      pipe
      		 715,911 52,164,027 72.86×
      priv-instr
      		 850,560 13,905,773 16.35×
      resched
      		 14,329,177 9,093,128 0.63×
      switch
      		 48,336 22,989,221 475.62×
      timermix
      		 244,636 16,316,203 66.70×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 7,731 138,504 17.91×
      tsc
      		 902,505 55,769,682 61.79×
      usersyscall
      		 706,507 14,301,673 20.24×
      vdso
      		 104,385,345 6,288,815,331 60.25×
      vfork
      		 24,192 227,019 9.38×
      x86syscall
      		 10,265,986 711,499,473 69.31×
      yield
      		 106,543,473 103,261,500 0.97×
      zero
      		 5,774,724 376,485,979 65.20×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 15,798 835,717 52.90×
      expmath
      		 3,440 203,310 59.11×
      fma
      		 1,282,115 67,385,861 52.56×
      fp
      		 203.09 12,272 60.43×
      fractal
      		 6.6 376.45 57.04×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,959 234,413 59.21×
      logmath
      		 5,112 331,105 64.76×
      matrix
      		 4,846 244,512 50.46×
      matrix-3d
      		 697.76 12,045 17.26×
      monte-carlo
      		 291.01 19,317 66.38×
      mpfr
      		 1,710 78,112 45.68×
      powmath
      		 1,970 119,468 60.65×
      trig
      		 2,544 136,088 53.49×
      veccmp
      		 24,293 1,128,035 46.43×
      vecfp
      		 1,510 76,861 50.91×
      vecmath
      		 3,835 219,909 57.34×
      vecshuf
      		 811.43 37,966 46.79×
      vecwide
      		 36,041 1,634,226 45.34×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 8.8 421.18 47.86×
      bsearch
      		 274.59 14,902 54.27×
      bubblesort
      		 1 39 39.00×
      fibsearch
      		 302.33 14,885 49.23×
      heapsort
      		 10 537.19 53.72×
      hsearch
      		 8,214 390,732 47.57×
      insertionsort
      		 12.6 452 35.87×
      malloc
      		 2,841,499 108,841,883 38.30×
      mcontend
      		 95.87 13,892 144.90×
      mergesort
      		 30.8 1,693 54.98×
      qsort
      		 22 1,180 53.62×
      skiplist
      		 5,321 346,629 65.14×
      tree
      		 1.8 69 38.33×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 261,679 9,957,418 38.05×
      cachehammer
      		 120,337 7,773,901 64.60×
      cacheline
      		 47.37 3,683 77.75×
      l1cache
      		 1,106 16,003 14.46×
      memcpy
      		 447.5 17,284 38.62×
      memrate
      		 - 5.05 -
      memthrash
      		 226.61 1,624 7.17×
      ptr-chase
      		 37,018,514 744,644,037 20.12×
      spinmem
      		 292.19 1,575 5.39×
      stream
      		 3.37 5,046 1497.23×
      vm
      		 184,678 304,767 1.65×

      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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