DC16s_v3 by Microsoft Azure

DC16s_v3 is a DCSv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1656 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
30,343
(All-cores)
1,898
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DC16s_v3
Name
DC16s_v3
API Reference
Standard_DC16s_v3
Description
DCSv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
DCSv3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
20
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-09-20T22:48:41.159864

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1656 USD/h 0.896 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.17 USD/h 0.92 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.1889 USD/h 1.014 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.221 USD/h 1.196 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.2436 USD/h 1.318 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2839 USD/h 1.536 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.2839 USD/h 1.536 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.3223 USD/h 1.536 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.2986 USD/h 1.616 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 1.616 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 1.616 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.3164 USD/h 1.712 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.3164 USD/h 1.712 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.3205 USD/h 1.736 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.3282 USD/h 1.776 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.3312 USD/h 1.792 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.34 USD/h 1.84 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.3406 USD/h 1.843 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.3548 USD/h 1.92 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.3548 USD/h 1.92 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.3666 USD/h 1.984 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.3666 USD/h 1.984 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.4003 USD/h 2.166 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.4258 USD/h 2.304 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
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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized virtual machine featuring sixteen dedicated x86_64 cores and a high RAM-to-vCPU ratio for database and memory-intensive workloads.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure DC16s_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the DCSv3 family, featuring 16 dedicated physical cores on an Intel Xeon 8370C x86_64 processor running at 2.8 GHz. Equipped with 128.0 GB of RAM, it offers a 1:8 vCPU-to-RAM ratio of 8.0 GB per core, though it lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks indicate average-tier capabilities, with a Passmark CPU score of 30808.33 and a multi-core Geekbench score of 13843.0. It demonstrates strong performance in image processing and small-model LLM text generation, but exhibits weak throughput for larger 70B LLM inference. This server is appropriate for memory-intensive workloads, database operations, and software compilation where dedicated CPU resources and high memory capacity are required without local storage.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.62Score
    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) 3,722,588 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 1.94 50.00% 50.00% +39.30%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 20,486,691 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 1.75 20.00% 20.00% +11.80%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,587 2,418 1.07 10.00% 10.00% +0.68%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 148,688 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 1.37 10.00% 10.00% +3.20%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,439 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.03 10.00% 10.00% +0.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,674

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 13,843

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 30808
    Compression
    		 362222
    Encryption
    		 18778
    Extended Instructions
    		 29822
    Floating Point Maths
    		 69436
    Integer Maths
    		 84278
    Physics
    		 3269
    Prime Numbers
    		 253
    Single Threaded
    		 2439
    String Sorting
    		 49632

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2587
    Database Operations
    		 14828
    Memory Latency
    		 59
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24480
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11457
    Memory Write
    		 10618

    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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