DC8s_v3 by Microsoft Azure

DC8s_v3 is a DCSv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.085 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
15,163
(All-cores)
1,898
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DC8s_v3
Name
DC8s_v3
API Reference
Standard_DC8s_v3
Description
DCSv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
DCSv3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
16
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-11-01T17:16:08.845705

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0945 USD/h -
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1582 USD/h -
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
- 0.448 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.085 USD/h 0.46 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
- 0.598 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.1218 USD/h 0.659 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1419 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1692 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1493 USD/h 0.808 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.808 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.808 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1582 USD/h 0.856 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
- 0.868 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
- 0.888 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
- 0.896 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
- 0.92 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
- 0.922 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1774 USD/h 0.96 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1774 USD/h 0.96 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1833 USD/h 0.992 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1833 USD/h 0.992 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2001 USD/h 1.083 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
- 1.152 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
    0 GB
    Storages
      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 a 1:8 vCPU-to-RAM ratio, dedicated Intel Xeon cores, and support for premium external storage.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Microsoft Azure DC8s_v3 is an x86_64 memory-optimized virtual machine from the DCSv3 family, running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It features 8 dedicated physical cores and 8 vCPUs powered by an Intel Xeon 8370C processor clocked at 2.8 GHz, paired with 64.0 GB of RAM. The instance lacks local storage and dedicated GPUs, relying on external Premium Storage. Performance benchmarks place the server in the average tier, with a Geekbench multi-core score of 9024.0 and a Passmark CPU score of 17073.48. It demonstrates strong performance in small-scale LLM text generation, reaching 279.29 tokens per second. With an 8.0 GB per core memory allocation, this server is suited for database operations, memory-cached applications, software compilation, and web serving.

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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) 1,858,357 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 1 50.00% 50.00% 0.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 10,892,352 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.92 20.00% 20.00% -1.70%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,543 2,416 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 94,246 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.85 10.00% 10.00% -1.60%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,436 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: 9,024

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 17,073
      Compression
      		 180,859
      Encryption
      		 9,383
      Extended Instructions
      		 15,232
      Floating Point Maths
      		 34,676
      Integer Maths
      		 42,101
      Physics
      		 2,059
      Prime Numbers
      		 135
      Single Threaded
      		 2,436
      String Sorting
      		 24,986

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,543
      Database Operations
      		 7,753
      Memory Latency
      		 58
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24,491
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11,792
      Memory Write
      		 10,761

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 251.69 275.03 1.09×
      bitops
      		 130,764 1,043,604 7.98×
      branch
      		 137,802 1,100,865 7.99×
      funccall
      		 637.97 5,072 7.95×
      funcret
      		 11,906 92,838 7.80×
      hash
      		 151,722 1,209,902 7.97×
      intmath
      		 61,418 489,369 7.97×
      nop
      		 187,863 1,498,184 7.97×
      prime
      		 394,356 3,154,029 8.00×
      rotate
      		 98,061 781,487 7.97×
      str
      		 866,741 7,215,035 8.32×
      wcs
      		 617,246 5,015,406 8.13×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,852 22,750 7.98×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 714.45 5,657 7.92×
      zlib
      		 61.83 448.64 7.26×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 38,221 226,054 5.91×
      clone
      		 1,429 7,032 4.92×
      context
      		 5,420 43,570 8.04×
      cpu-sched
      		 61.84 504.79 8.16×
      eventfd
      		 49,825 1,244,923 24.99×
      fault
      		 17,431 90,246 5.18×
      fork
      		 5,767 31,141 5.40×
      getrandom
      		 50,245 400,554 7.97×
      hrtimers
      		 1,282,169 1,959,049 1.53×
      mprotect
      		 1,320,294 3,599,246 2.73×
      mtx
      		 13,453,845 425,443,666 31.62×
      munmap
      		 4,067 28,277 6.95×
      null
      		 865,572 6,859,306 7.92×
      pipe
      		 905,147 8,082,114 8.93×
      priv-instr
      		 820,752 6,145,508 7.49×
      resched
      		 4,580,732 1,729,287 0.38×
      switch
      		 138,675 3,339,517 24.08×
      timermix
      		 266,509 2,142,435 8.04×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 12,067 26,543 2.20×
      tsc
      		 900,800 7,175,078 7.97×
      usersyscall
      		 692,789 5,210,388 7.52×
      vdso
      		 120,092,539 951,121,286 7.92×
      vfork
      		 33,371 203,081 6.09×
      x86syscall
      		 10,826,846 86,267,450 7.97×
      yield
      		 8,976,704 9,705,328 1.08×
      zero
      		 4,637,619 36,898,507 7.96×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 14,876 118,493 7.97×
      expmath
      		 2,902 23,130 7.97×
      fma
      		 661,737 5,268,944 7.96×
      fp
      		 184.46 1,522 8.25×
      fractal
      		 5 39.2 7.84×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,096 24,270 7.84×
      logmath
      		 4,864 38,802 7.98×
      matrix
      		 3,804 30,392 7.99×
      matrix-3d
      		 800.88 3,286 4.10×
      monte-carlo
      		 280.61 2,243 7.99×
      mpfr
      		 1,419 11,296 7.96×
      powmath
      		 1,696 13,523 7.97×
      trig
      		 1,986 15,829 7.97×
      veccmp
      		 20,861 166,124 7.96×
      vecfp
      		 1,533 12,219 7.97×
      vecmath
      		 3,296 26,269 7.97×
      vecshuf
      		 668.02 5,318 7.96×
      vecwide
      		 31,723 255,143 8.04×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 8 64 8.00×
      bsearch
      		 249.21 1,986 7.97×
      bubblesort
      		 1 8 8.00×
      fibsearch
      		 291.08 2,319 7.97×
      heapsort
      		 9.4 75.2 8.00×
      hsearch
      		 7,372 56,515 7.67×
      insertionsort
      		 10.6 83.8 7.91×
      malloc
      		 2,633,855 19,594,221 7.44×
      mcontend
      		 127.33 1,610 12.64×
      mergesort
      		 27 214.2 7.93×
      qsort
      		 20.8 165 7.93×
      skiplist
      		 5,465 43,533 7.97×
      tree
      		 1.8 12 6.67×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 375,484 793,672 2.11×
      cachehammer
      		 358,976 2,730,887 7.61×
      cacheline
      		 60.82 492.71 8.10×
      l1cache
      		 923.14 7,274 7.88×
      memcpy
      		 408.79 3,261 7.98×
      memrate
      		 1.78 9.48 5.33×
      memthrash
      		 156.79 370.13 2.36×
      ptr-chase
      		 45,950,267 106,648,917 2.32×
      spinmem
      		 431.98 291.13 0.67×
      stream
      		 41.47 1,752 42.26×
      vm
      		 161,507 292,793 1.81×

      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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