DC16ds_v3 by Microsoft Azure

DC16ds_v3 is a DDCSv3 family [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 1.23 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1951 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
1.23 TB Storage
Spare SCore
30,344
(All-cores)
1,898
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DC16ds_v3
Name
DC16ds_v3
API Reference
Standard_DC16ds_v3
Description
DDCSv3 family [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
DDCSv3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
25
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-31T18:47:24.792826

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1951 USD/h 1.056 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.2011 USD/h 1.088 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.2223 USD/h 1.193 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.2613 USD/h 1.414 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.2866 USD/h 1.551 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.3341 USD/h 1.808 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.3341 USD/h 1.808 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.3793 USD/h 1.808 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.3548 USD/h 1.92 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 1.92 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 1.92 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.3676 USD/h 1.989 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.3726 USD/h 2.016 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.3726 USD/h 2.016 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.3771 USD/h 2.043 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.3873 USD/h 2.096 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.3933 USD/h 2.128 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.401 USD/h 2.17 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.4021 USD/h 2.176 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.4169 USD/h 2.256 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.4199 USD/h 2.272 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.4317 USD/h 2.336 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.4317 USD/h 2.336 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.4711 USD/h 2.549 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.5012 USD/h 2.712 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
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
768 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
20 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
48 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, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, sgx, 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, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, sgx_lc, fsrm, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
16
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
128 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
192 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    1229 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 1229 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors, substantial local storage, and balanced performance for database and memory-intensive applications.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure DC16ds_v3 is an x86_64 memory-optimized virtual machine from the DDCSv3 family, utilizing the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It is equipped with 16 dedicated physical cores and 16 vCPUs on an Intel Xeon 8370C processor running at 2.8 GHz, paired with 128.0 GB of RAM and a 1229 GB local disk. The instance lacks GPU accelerators and public IPv4 addresses. Performance benchmarks generally fall in the average tier, with a Passmark CPU score of 30791.92 and a Redis SET throughput of 31.87 million operations per second. It shows strong performance in image processing and small-scale LLM text generation, though it exhibits weak performance on larger 70B LLM prompt processing. This hardware configuration is well-suited for memory-intensive workloads, database operations, and software compilation.

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.6Score
    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) 3,711,254 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 1.9 50.00% 50.00% +38.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 20,742,704 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 1.8 20.00% 20.00% +12.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,618 2,416 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 151,984 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1.4 10.00% 10.00% +3.40%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,438 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,688

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 13,787

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 30,792
    Compression
    		 361,697
    Encryption
    		 18,760
    Extended Instructions
    		 29,927
    Floating Point Maths
    		 69,437
    Integer Maths
    		 84,282
    Physics
    		 3,245
    Prime Numbers
    		 251
    Single Threaded
    		 2,438
    String Sorting
    		 49,687

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,618
    Database Operations
    		 14,720
    Memory Latency
    		 59
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24,454
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11,889
    Memory Write
    		 10,876

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 267.43 264.99 0.99×
    bitops
    		 131,264 2,093,907 15.95×
    branch
    		 137,799 2,203,054 15.99×
    funccall
    		 635.73 10,171 16.00×
    funcret
    		 11,915 176,764 14.84×
    hash
    		 151,666 2,438,067 16.08×
    intmath
    		 61,417 981,049 15.97×
    nop
    		 187,861 3,001,117 15.98×
    prime
    		 394,815 6,306,292 15.97×
    rotate
    		 98,054 1,565,755 15.97×
    str
    		 906,455 13,110,252 14.46×
    wcs
    		 615,874 9,611,855 15.61×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,853 45,558 15.97×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 687.45 11,264 16.39×
    zlib
    		 35.11 855.79 24.37×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 37,112 349,127 9.41×
    clone
    		 1,447 13,077 9.04×
    context
    		 5,420 87,441 16.13×
    cpu-sched
    		 57.03 998.18 17.50×
    eventfd
    		 49,993 2,569,623 51.40×
    fault
    		 15,158 162,833 10.74×
    fork
    		 5,555 48,039 8.65×
    getrandom
    		 50,369 805,185 15.99×
    hrtimers
    		 168,443 3,508,348 20.83×
    mprotect
    		 1,298,069 7,063,252 5.44×
    mtx
    		 13,595,035 829,605,624 61.02×
    munmap
    		 3,936 41,979 10.67×
    null
    		 864,166 13,790,935 15.96×
    pipe
    		 833,549 14,553,327 17.46×
    priv-instr
    		 822,032 9,757,406 11.87×
    resched
    		 10,891,600 3,909,820 0.36×
    switch
    		 120,644 6,793,145 56.31×
    timermix
    		 265,550 4,259,344 16.04×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 9,057 49,281 5.44×
    tsc
    		 900,823 14,393,689 15.98×
    usersyscall
    		 691,640 9,751,380 14.10×
    vdso
    		 118,361,466 1,866,510,736 15.77×
    vfork
    		 32,705 306,924 9.38×
    x86syscall
    		 10,841,014 172,911,941 15.95×
    yield
    		 17,990,615 18,802,212 1.05×
    zero
    		 4,652,448 74,145,336 15.94×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 14,872 237,647 15.98×
    expmath
    		 2,901 46,290 15.95×
    fma
    		 662,005 10,576,425 15.98×
    fp
    		 198.06 3,030 15.30×
    fractal
    		 5 78.6 15.72×
    hyperbolic
    		 3,096 49,467 15.98×
    logmath
    		 4,871 77,743 15.96×
    matrix
    		 3,793 59,890 15.79×
    matrix-3d
    		 751.31 5,137 6.84×
    monte-carlo
    		 280.53 4,487 15.99×
    mpfr
    		 1,416 22,673 16.01×
    powmath
    		 1,695 27,085 15.98×
    trig
    		 1,984 31,719 15.98×
    veccmp
    		 20,864 333,232 15.97×
    vecfp
    		 1,533 24,494 15.98×
    vecmath
    		 3,296 52,639 15.97×
    vecshuf
    		 667.51 10,668 15.98×
    vecwide
    		 32,017 511,455 15.97×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 8 128 16.00×
    bsearch
    		 247.49 3,975 16.06×
    bubblesort
    		 1 16 16.00×
    fibsearch
    		 290.77 4,646 15.98×
    heapsort
    		 9.4 150.4 16.00×
    hsearch
    		 7,380 114,089 15.46×
    insertionsort
    		 10.6 169.4 15.98×
    malloc
    		 2,616,626 27,087,362 10.35×
    mcontend
    		 107.5 3,352 31.19×
    mergesort
    		 27 430.39 15.94×
    qsort
    		 20.6 332.19 16.13×
    skiplist
    		 5,458 87,091 15.96×
    tree
    		 1.6 19.2 12.00×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 392,455 664,681 1.69×
    cachehammer
    		 356,238 5,279,887 14.82×
    cacheline
    		 66.51 1,079 16.22×
    l1cache
    		 923.11 14,598 15.81×
    memcpy
    		 408.95 6,535 15.98×
    memrate
    		 1.78 12.74 7.16×
    memthrash
    		 201.9 637.31 3.16×
    ptr-chase
    		 44,801,520 180,942,351 4.04×
    spinmem
    		 438.98 1,449 3.30×
    stream
    		 41.19 4,814 116.88×
    vm
    		 152,671 294,350 1.93×

    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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