E16-4s_v3 by Microsoft Azure

E16-4s_v3 is a ESv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 262 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1277 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
262 GB Storage
Spare SCore
3,272
(All-cores)
1,244
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E16-4s_v3
Name
E16-4s_v3
API Reference
Standard_E16-4s_v3
Description
ESv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
ESv3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
31
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-27T21:24:32.146846

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1863 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1863 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1863 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1976 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.4075 USD/h 1.064 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1979 USD/h 1.072 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.2025 USD/h 1.096 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 1.096 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 1.096 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.2049 USD/h 1.109 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.207 USD/h 1.12 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2085 USD/h 1.128 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.2085 USD/h 1.128 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.2129 USD/h 1.152 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.2129 USD/h 1.152 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.2129 USD/h 1.152 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2155 USD/h 1.166 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.2155 USD/h 1.166 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1929 USD/h 1.167 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.2158 USD/h 1.168 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.3347 USD/h 1.168 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.2188 USD/h 1.184 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.2188 USD/h 1.184 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.2242 USD/h 1.21 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.2247 USD/h 1.216 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.2247 USD/h 1.216 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.2247 USD/h 1.216 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.2293 USD/h 1.241 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1996 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.2306 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.2306 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.2343 USD/h 1.268 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1277 USD/h 1.277 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.236 USD/h 1.277 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.236 USD/h 1.277 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.236 USD/h 1.277 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.2365 USD/h 1.28 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.2365 USD/h 1.28 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.2365 USD/h 1.28 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.2365 USD/h 1.28 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.2365 USD/h 1.28 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2465 USD/h 1.334 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.2469 USD/h 1.336 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.2484 USD/h 1.344 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.2602 USD/h 1.408 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.2602 USD/h 1.408 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.2691 USD/h 1.456 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.2905 USD/h 1.572 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.2922 USD/h 1.581 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.2996 USD/h 1.621 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.3113 USD/h 1.68 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.3382 USD/h 1.83 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.3383 USD/h 1.8306 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.3472 USD/h 1.879 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.4517 USD/h 2.444 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
2.6 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8272CL
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
50 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
50 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, cpuid, pni, pclmulqdq, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xsaves, vnmi, md_clear
Ecpus
2.6
Scalability
65

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
128 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
128 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    262 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 262 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 high memory density and local SSD storage for memory-intensive, compute-light enterprise workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure E16-4s_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the ESv3 family, running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It features an x86_64 Intel Xeon 8272CL processor with 4 dedicated vCPUs, 2 physical cores, and a 2.6 GHz clock speed. The hardware profile is characterized by a high memory capacity of 128.0 GB, translating to 32.0 GB per core, alongside a bundled 262 GB local SSD. Benchmark data reveals a significant tradeoff: while CPU performance and memory bandwidth are positioned in the bottom 25%, the Passmark memory score remains average. This resource distribution makes the server highly cost-efficient for memory-heavy, compute-light workloads. It is best suited for caching layers, relational databases with moderate query complexity, and memory-intensive enterprise applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.23Score
    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) 296,437 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.16 50.00% 50.00% -60.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,924,330 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.16 20.00% 20.00% -31.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,280 2,416 0.96 10.00% 10.00% -0.41%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 27,278 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 0.25 10.00% 10.00% -13.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,784 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 976

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,196

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 3,961
    Compression
    		 48,695
    Encryption
    		 1,513
    Extended Instructions
    		 3,413
    Floating Point Maths
    		 5,879
    Integer Maths
    		 10,962
    Physics
    		 530
    Prime Numbers
    		 25
    Single Threaded
    		 1,784
    String Sorting
    		 5,944

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,280
    Database Operations
    		 1,370
    Memory Latency
    		 49
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21,573
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11,728
    Memory Write
    		 10,500

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 234.57 227.17 0.97×
    bitops
    		 83,790 176,112 2.10×
    branch
    		 109,917 328,096 2.98×
    funccall
    		 381.43 751.67 1.97×
    funcret
    		 7,574 21,358 2.82×
    hash
    		 90,860 263,854 2.90×
    intmath
    		 15,793 45,448 2.88×
    nop
    		 127,340 224,708 1.76×
    prime
    		 222,109 470,595 2.12×
    rotate
    		 72,128 178,208 2.47×
    str
    		 506,052 1,113,476 2.20×
    wcs
    		 319,086 660,359 2.07×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 1,631 3,146 1.93×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 369.4 894.3 2.42×
    zlib
    		 46.18 132.17 2.86×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 13,125 33,815 2.58×
    clone
    		 896.76 1,911 2.13×
    context
    		 1,397 3,480 2.49×
    cpu-sched
    		 65.87 259.25 3.94×
    eventfd
    		 20,884 136,050 6.51×
    fault
    		 4,831 13,343 2.76×
    fork
    		 2,605 6,921 2.66×
    getrandom
    		 30,959 71,606 2.31×
    hrtimers
    		 149,018 213,914 1.44×
    mprotect
    		 391,471 421,891 1.08×
    mtx
    		 12,895,008 66,684,877 5.17×
    munmap
    		 1,698 4,768 2.81×
    null
    		 146,588 347,872 2.37×
    pipe
    		 660,636 837,355 1.27×
    priv-instr
    		 332,976 803,786 2.41×
    resched
    		 386,931 143,253 0.37×
    switch
    		 56,798 423,521 7.46×
    timermix
    		 140,081 350,158 2.50×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 5,287 5,649 1.07×
    tsc
    		 723,216 2,579,708 3.57×
    usersyscall
    		 226,260 536,504 2.37×
    vdso
    		 55,045,427 149,999,277 2.73×
    vfork
    		 13,790 38,963 2.83×
    x86syscall
    		 1,686,271 3,959,638 2.35×
    yield
    		 1,317,818 1,308,172 0.99×
    zero
    		 1,118,049 2,556,845 2.29×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 10,471 26,016 2.48×
    expmath
    		 1,841 5,357 2.91×
    fma
    		 432,405 1,313,843 3.04×
    fp
    		 86.4 223.54 2.59×
    fractal
    		 3.8 9.4 2.47×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,115 6,076 2.87×
    logmath
    		 3,364 9,368 2.78×
    matrix
    		 2,698 5,801 2.15×
    matrix-3d
    		 417.11 649.53 1.56×
    monte-carlo
    		 75.36 209.95 2.79×
    mpfr
    		 803.94 1,640 2.04×
    powmath
    		 1,113 3,092 2.78×
    trig
    		 1,325 2,855 2.15×
    veccmp
    		 9,512 20,091 2.11×
    vecfp
    		 616.92 1,587 2.57×
    vecmath
    		 1,573 4,607 2.93×
    vecshuf
    		 395.33 808.26 2.04×
    vecwide
    		 17,352 36,792 2.12×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 5 11.2 2.24×
    bsearch
    		 168.74 405.85 2.41×
    bubblesort
    		 0.4 0.8 2.00×
    fibsearch
    		 194.62 451.12 2.32×
    heapsort
    		 5.6 13.4 2.39×
    hsearch
    		 2,999 7,023 2.34×
    insertionsort
    		 5.8 11 1.90×
    malloc
    		 1,392,716 5,548,794 3.98×
    mcontend
    		 214.12 824.4 3.85×
    mergesort
    		 18.4 48 2.61×
    qsort
    		 12.8 30.4 2.37×
    skiplist
    		 4,272 10,896 2.55×
    tree
    		 0.6 1.6 2.67×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 169,649 258,072 1.52×
    cachehammer
    		 427,896 1,453,876 3.40×
    cacheline
    		 20.03 87.67 4.38×
    l1cache
    		 140.49 273.11 1.94×
    memcpy
    		 302.87 625.58 2.07×
    memrate
    		 0.97 2.28 2.35×
    memthrash
    		 46.79 127.64 2.73×
    ptr-chase
    		 9,855,023 37,176,079 3.77×
    spinmem
    		 146.59 108.16 0.74×
    stream
    		 24.18 205.45 8.50×
    vm
    		 42,518 199,319 4.69×

    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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