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
2026-11-05T08:13:05.718571

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
0.3384 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
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 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

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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) 3,722,588 ops/sec 1,938,397 ops/sec 1.9 50.00% 50.00% +38.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 20,486,691 ops/sec 11,810,473 ops/sec 1.7 20.00% 20.00% +11.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,587 2,410 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 148,688 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 1.4 10.00% 10.00% +3.40%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,439 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,674

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 13,843

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 30,808
      Compression
      		 362,222
      Encryption
      		 18,778
      Extended Instructions
      		 29,822
      Floating Point Maths
      		 69,436
      Integer Maths
      		 84,278
      Physics
      		 3,269
      Prime Numbers
      		 253
      Single Threaded
      		 2,439
      String Sorting
      		 49,632

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,587
      Database Operations
      		 14,828
      Memory Latency
      		 59
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24,480
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11,457
      Memory Write
      		 10,618

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 260.69 256.67 0.98×
      bitops
      		 131,108 2,092,725 15.96×
      branch
      		 137,794 2,202,903 15.99×
      funccall
      		 637.57 10,192 15.99×
      funcret
      		 11,883 172,120 14.48×
      hash
      		 152,446 2,412,116 15.82×
      intmath
      		 61,408 980,854 15.97×
      nop
      		 187,820 3,000,896 15.98×
      prime
      		 390,538 6,313,000 16.16×
      rotate
      		 98,067 1,566,594 15.97×
      str
      		 897,846 14,444,239 16.09×
      wcs
      		 612,327 9,719,279 15.87×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,819 45,514 16.14×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 711.38 11,308 15.90×
      zlib
      		 51.08 861.09 16.86×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 37,136 347,331 9.35×
      clone
      		 1,418 12,961 9.14×
      context
      		 5,476 87,271 15.94×
      cpu-sched
      		 64.89 984.38 15.17×
      eventfd
      		 51,042 839,639 16.45×
      fault
      		 17,504 172,794 9.87×
      fork
      		 5,544 48,166 8.69×
      getrandom
      		 50,236 802,834 15.98×
      hrtimers
      		 355,387 3,425,821 9.64×
      mprotect
      		 1,340,501 7,126,941 5.32×
      mtx
      		 12,777,998 805,138,668 63.01×
      munmap
      		 3,885 41,123 10.59×
      null
      		 864,524 13,761,727 15.92×
      pipe
      		 885,409 14,654,198 16.55×
      priv-instr
      		 817,559 11,121,282 13.60×
      resched
      		 10,836,899 3,693,832 0.34×
      switch
      		 130,037 6,794,382 52.25×
      timermix
      		 266,398 4,236,153 15.90×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 11,614 50,940 4.39×
      tsc
      		 900,818 14,392,484 15.98×
      usersyscall
      		 696,966 10,340,621 14.84×
      vdso
      		 120,109,398 1,918,100,161 15.97×
      vfork
      		 31,991 303,813 9.50×
      x86syscall
      		 10,841,482 172,824,225 15.94×
      yield
      		 18,044,219 20,295,239 1.12×
      zero
      		 4,640,177 74,136,070 15.98×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 14,877 237,556 15.97×
      expmath
      		 2,901 46,298 15.96×
      fma
      		 661,954 10,570,091 15.97×
      fp
      		 184.8 3,000 16.23×
      fractal
      		 5 78.61 15.72×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,096 49,463 15.98×
      logmath
      		 4,866 77,699 15.97×
      matrix
      		 3,789 59,963 15.82×
      matrix-3d
      		 829.22 4,835 5.83×
      monte-carlo
      		 280.66 4,488 15.99×
      mpfr
      		 1,419 22,649 15.96×
      powmath
      		 1,696 27,015 15.93×
      trig
      		 1,982 31,708 16.00×
      veccmp
      		 20,859 333,251 15.98×
      vecfp
      		 1,533 24,493 15.98×
      vecmath
      		 3,295 52,650 15.98×
      vecshuf
      		 667.75 10,669 15.98×
      vecwide
      		 32,015 511,565 15.98×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 8 128 16.00×
      bsearch
      		 247.32 3,963 16.02×
      bubblesort
      		 1 16 16.00×
      fibsearch
      		 290.8 4,646 15.97×
      heapsort
      		 9.4 150.4 16.00×
      hsearch
      		 7,391 114,094 15.44×
      insertionsort
      		 10.6 168.6 15.91×
      malloc
      		 2,661,748 27,644,123 10.39×
      mcontend
      		 95.1 3,357 35.30×
      mergesort
      		 27 430.39 15.94×
      qsort
      		 20.8 331.99 15.96×
      skiplist
      		 5,460 87,239 15.98×
      tree
      		 1.6 19.2 12.00×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 411,706 867,762 2.11×
      cachehammer
      		 363,369 5,263,804 14.49×
      cacheline
      		 71.55 1,023 14.30×
      l1cache
      		 906.99 14,642 16.14×
      memcpy
      		 408.97 6,518 15.94×
      memrate
      		 1.78 12.53 7.04×
      memthrash
      		 201.36 634.98 3.15×
      ptr-chase
      		 44,887,294 179,734,845 4.00×
      spinmem
      		 445.18 1,539 3.46×
      stream
      		 39.31 4,737 120.50×
      vm
      		 158,319 294,294 1.86×

      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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