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E16-8ads_v5 by Microsoft Azure

E16-8ads_v5 is a EADSv5 family [AMD processor] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 614 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1227 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
614 GB Storage
Spare SCore
10807
(All-cores)
2703
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E16-8ads_v5
Name
E16-8ads_v5
API Reference
Standard_E16-8ads_v5
Description
EADSv5 family [AMD processor] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs
Family
EADSv5
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-29T00:21:24.732456

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1227 USD/h 0.664 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.664 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.664 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1937 USD/h 1.048 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1937 USD/h 1.048 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.2015 USD/h 1.048 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2207 USD/h 1.048 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2837 USD/h 1.048 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.2055 USD/h 1.112 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.2116 USD/h 1.145 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.2116 USD/h 1.145 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.2129 USD/h 1.152 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.2215 USD/h 1.152 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.2131 USD/h 1.153 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2158 USD/h 1.168 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2187 USD/h 1.184 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.2188 USD/h 1.184 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.2227 USD/h 1.205 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.2232 USD/h 1.208 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.2262 USD/h 1.224 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1478 USD/h 1.232 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.228 USD/h 1.234 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.228 USD/h 1.234 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2325 USD/h 1.258 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.5143 USD/h 1.258 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.2336 USD/h 1.264 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.2336 USD/h 1.264 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.2336 USD/h 1.264 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.2336 USD/h 1.264 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.2336 USD/h 1.264 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.2336 USD/h 1.264 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.2336 USD/h 1.264 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.2343 USD/h 1.268 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1272 USD/h 1.272 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.2351 USD/h 1.272 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.2351 USD/h 1.272 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.2351 USD/h 1.272 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.2351 USD/h 1.272 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.2351 USD/h 1.272 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.2378 USD/h 1.287 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.2378 USD/h 1.287 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.2378 USD/h 1.287 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.2469 USD/h 1.336 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.2478 USD/h 1.341 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.2517 USD/h 1.362 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.2558 USD/h 1.384 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.2565 USD/h 1.388 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.2683 USD/h 1.452 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2731 USD/h 1.478 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.277 USD/h 1.499 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.277 USD/h 1.499 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.294 USD/h 1.591 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.3036 USD/h 1.643 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.3075 USD/h 1.664 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.3095 USD/h 1.675 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.3325 USD/h 1.799 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.36 USD/h 1.948 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.36 USD/h 1.948 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.3997 USD/h 2.163 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
3.525 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
7763
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 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, ht, syscall, nx, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, svm, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, topoext, vmmcall, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, clzero, xsaveerptr, rdpru, arat, npt, nrip_save, tsc_scale, vmcb_clean, flushbyasid, decodeassists, pausefilter, pfthreshold, v_vmsave_vmload, umip, vaes, vpclmulqdq, rdpid, fsrm
Ecpus
4
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
128 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
128 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    614 GB
    Storages
    • 614 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    An AMD-powered, memory-optimized virtual machine featuring a high RAM-to-core ratio and integrated local storage for memory-intensive enterprise workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure E16-8ads_v5 is an x86_64 memory-optimized virtual machine instance powered by an AMD EPYC 7763 processor running at 3.525 GHz. It features 8 dedicated vCPUs across 4 physical cores, 128.0 GB of RAM, and 614 GB of local storage. The instance exhibits strong single-core CPU performance, though multi-core benchmarks and memory read bandwidth remain in the average tier. A key tradeoff is its weak large-block memory write bandwidth and limited performance in medium-scale LLM prompt processing. Qualitatively, its high memory-to-vCPU ratio and bundled local storage make it cost-effective for memory-intensive applications that do not demand extensive parallel processing. It is appropriate for database operations, in-memory caching, and general enterprise workloads requiring substantial memory capacity.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.46Score
    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) 647,275 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.341 50.00% 50.00% -41.60%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,817,095 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.417 20.00% 20.00% -16.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,624 2,411 1.09 10.00% 10.00% +0.87%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 50,658 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.472 10.00% 10.00% -7.23%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,394 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.01 10.00% 10.00% +0.10%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,594

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 6,293

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 11864
    Compression
    		 128129
    Encryption
    		 8615
    Extended Instructions
    		 7348
    Floating Point Maths
    		 18360
    Integer Maths
    		 33205
    Physics
    		 1301
    Prime Numbers
    		 76
    Single Threaded
    		 2394
    String Sorting
    		 18072

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2624
    Database Operations
    		 3497
    Memory Latency
    		 64
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24393
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 19739
    Memory Write
    		 18807

    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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