DC48s_v3 by Microsoft Azure

DC48s_v3 is a DCSv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 48 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 48 vCPUs, 384 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.4967 USD per hour.
48 vCPU
384 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
90,890
(All-cores)
1,898
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DC48s_v3
Name
DC48s_v3
API Reference
Standard_DC48s_v3
Description
DCSv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 48 vCPUs
Family
DCSv3
Hw Virt
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-30T19:10:44.624559

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.4967 USD/h 2.688 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.51 USD/h 2.76 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.5667 USD/h 3.042 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.6631 USD/h 3.588 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.7307 USD/h 3.954 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.8516 USD/h 4.608 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.8516 USD/h 4.608 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.9668 USD/h 4.608 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
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
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.9491 USD/h 5.136 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.9491 USD/h 5.136 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.9612 USD/h 5.207 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.9846 USD/h 5.328 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.9935 USD/h 5.376 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
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
1.0644 USD/h 5.76 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
1.0644 USD/h 5.76 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
South India (IN) / southindia
1.2006 USD/h 6.497 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
1.2773 USD/h 6.912 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
48
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, 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
47.9
Scalability
99.79

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
384 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
634 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 dedicated 48-core x86_64 virtual machine with 384 GB RAM, optimized for memory-intensive database workloads and high-throughput web serving.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Microsoft Azure DC48s_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the DCSv3 family, featuring 48 dedicated physical cores on an Intel Xeon 8370C processor running at 2.8 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture under Microsoft Hyper-V, it delivers 384.0 GB of RAM, establishing a 1:8 vCPU-to-RAM ratio. The server lacks local storage and GPUs but supports Premium Storage. Benchmarks show strong multi-core CPU performance, high memory bandwidth, and top-tier image processing capabilities. It excels in database operations, static web serving, and Redis deployments, though it exhibits weak performance in large-scale LLM text generation. This configuration provides a qualitatively cost-efficient option for memory-intensive enterprise workloads.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      3.8Score
      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) 10,908,451 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 5.8 50.00% 50.00% +140.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 59,114,594 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 4.9 20.00% 20.00% +37.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,694 2,416 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 352,380 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 3.2 10.00% 10.00% +12.00%
      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: 1,692

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 18,203

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 67,760
      Compression
      		 1,086,748
      Encryption
      		 56,272
      Extended Instructions
      		 88,825
      Floating Point Maths
      		 208,260
      Integer Maths
      		 252,819
      Physics
      		 7,899
      Prime Numbers
      		 602
      Single Threaded
      		 2,439
      String Sorting
      		 147,707

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,694
      Database Operations
      		 29,710
      Memory Latency
      		 58
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24,467
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11,870
      Memory Write
      		 10,866

      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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