DC8ds_v3 by Microsoft Azure

DC8ds_v3 is a DDCSv3 family [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 614 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0976 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
614 GB Storage
Spare SCore
15,161
(All-cores)
1,898
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DC8ds_v3
Name
DC8ds_v3
API Reference
Standard_DC8ds_v3
Description
DDCSv3 family [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
DDCSv3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
27
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-24T15:35:47.623562

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0976 USD/h 0.528 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1005 USD/h 0.544 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.1112 USD/h 0.597 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.1307 USD/h 0.707 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.1432 USD/h 0.775 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1671 USD/h 0.904 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1671 USD/h 0.904 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1897 USD/h 0.904 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1774 USD/h 0.96 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.96 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.96 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1837 USD/h 0.994 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1863 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1863 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1887 USD/h 1.022 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1937 USD/h 1.048 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1966 USD/h 1.064 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2005 USD/h 1.085 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.2011 USD/h 1.088 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.2085 USD/h 1.128 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.2099 USD/h 1.136 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.2158 USD/h 1.168 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.2158 USD/h 1.168 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2356 USD/h 1.275 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.2506 USD/h 1.356 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
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
384 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
10 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
8
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An x86_64 virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon cores, high memory density, and local storage for secure, data-intensive workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure DC8ds_v3 is an x86_64 virtual machine from the DDCSv3 family, configured with 8 dedicated physical cores on an Intel Xeon 8370C processor running at 2.8 GHz. It features 64.0 GB of system memory, providing an 8.0 GB per core ratio, and includes a 614 GB local disk with Premium Storage capability. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, the instance lacks GPU acceleration. Benchmark data indicates average performance across standard compute and memory tasks, with a Passmark CPU score of 17106.17 and a Redis SET throughput of 16.96 million operations per second. However, it exhibits strong performance in small-model LLM text generation at 283.3 tokens per second. The high memory-to-vCPU ratio and dedicated core allocation make this instance suitable for memory-optimized workloads, database operations, and secure data processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.97Score
    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) 1,854,443 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1 50.00% 50.00% 0.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 10,880,960 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.92 20.00% 20.00% -1.70%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,513 2,416 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 94,408 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.85 10.00% 10.00% -1.60%
    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: 1,676

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 8,918

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 17,106
    Compression
    		 181,060
    Encryption
    		 9,387
    Extended Instructions
    		 15,558
    Floating Point Maths
    		 34,696
    Integer Maths
    		 42,107
    Physics
    		 2,078
    Prime Numbers
    		 135
    Single Threaded
    		 2,438
    String Sorting
    		 24,812

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,513
    Database Operations
    		 7,754
    Memory Latency
    		 60
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24,498
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11,731
    Memory Write
    		 10,909

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 272.87 263.77 0.97×
    bitops
    		 130,897 1,044,720 7.98×
    branch
    		 137,786 1,099,981 7.98×
    funccall
    		 638.22 5,079 7.96×
    funcret
    		 11,843 89,776 7.58×
    hash
    		 151,647 1,214,326 8.01×
    intmath
    		 61,400 488,902 7.96×
    nop
    		 187,803 1,492,550 7.95×
    prime
    		 395,849 3,149,199 7.96×
    rotate
    		 98,044 781,916 7.98×
    str
    		 906,246 6,836,084 7.54×
    wcs
    		 609,617 4,854,783 7.96×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,850 22,736 7.98×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 693.21 5,622 8.11×
    zlib
    		 47.43 412.36 8.69×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 37,893 222,658 5.88×
    clone
    		 1,420 6,926 4.88×
    context
    		 5,416 43,435 8.02×
    cpu-sched
    		 63.57 507.68 7.99×
    eventfd
    		 50,596 1,204,749 23.81×
    fault
    		 15,397 86,146 5.60×
    fork
    		 5,649 32,114 5.68×
    getrandom
    		 50,378 400,844 7.96×
    hrtimers
    		 173,694 1,475,837 8.50×
    mprotect
    		 1,281,337 3,616,979 2.82×
    mtx
    		 12,535,589 404,039,833 32.23×
    munmap
    		 4,057 26,374 6.50×
    null
    		 855,156 6,841,377 8.00×
    pipe
    		 933,191 8,194,567 8.78×
    priv-instr
    		 822,396 6,207,366 7.55×
    resched
    		 4,607,423 1,879,059 0.41×
    switch
    		 113,913 3,322,398 29.17×
    timermix
    		 264,892 2,114,372 7.98×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 11,979 25,103 2.10×
    tsc
    		 900,710 7,185,125 7.98×
    usersyscall
    		 692,027 5,291,589 7.65×
    vdso
    		 120,000,590 947,688,288 7.90×
    vfork
    		 32,100 196,935 6.13×
    x86syscall
    		 10,838,673 86,279,100 7.96×
    yield
    		 9,152,204 9,908,024 1.08×
    zero
    		 4,641,997 36,928,009 7.96×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 14,875 118,422 7.96×
    expmath
    		 2,901 23,134 7.97×
    fma
    		 661,616 5,268,607 7.96×
    fp
    		 185.88 1,488 8.01×
    fractal
    		 5 39.2 7.84×
    hyperbolic
    		 3,046 24,440 8.02×
    logmath
    		 4,869 38,372 7.88×
    matrix
    		 3,806 29,944 7.87×
    matrix-3d
    		 749.91 3,275 4.37×
    monte-carlo
    		 280.51 2,240 7.98×
    mpfr
    		 1,417 11,266 7.95×
    powmath
    		 1,695 13,495 7.96×
    trig
    		 1,985 15,799 7.96×
    veccmp
    		 20,859 166,173 7.97×
    vecfp
    		 1,533 12,209 7.97×
    vecmath
    		 3,295 26,179 7.94×
    vecshuf
    		 667.45 5,323 7.98×
    vecwide
    		 32,015 255,041 7.97×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 8 64 8.00×
    bsearch
    		 247.86 1,990 8.03×
    bubblesort
    		 1 8 8.00×
    fibsearch
    		 290.73 2,319 7.98×
    heapsort
    		 9.4 75.2 8.00×
    hsearch
    		 7,361 57,025 7.75×
    insertionsort
    		 10.6 83.8 7.91×
    malloc
    		 2,640,563 18,952,034 7.18×
    mcontend
    		 118.69 1,625 13.69×
    mergesort
    		 27 214.39 7.94×
    qsort
    		 20.8 165.2 7.94×
    skiplist
    		 5,461 43,388 7.95×
    tree
    		 1.6 11.2 7.00×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 377,981 723,216 1.91×
    cachehammer
    		 345,508 2,712,234 7.85×
    cacheline
    		 50.16 477.47 9.52×
    l1cache
    		 907.31 7,320 8.07×
    memcpy
    		 408.35 3,256 7.97×
    memrate
    		 1.78 9.49 5.33×
    memthrash
    		 144.57 368.2 2.55×
    ptr-chase
    		 45,929,032 100,588,950 2.19×
    spinmem
    		 431.98 705.68 1.63×
    stream
    		 40.72 1,819 44.67×
    vm
    		 159,110 292,719 1.84×

    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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