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E16-8s_v6 by Microsoft Azure

E16-8s_v6 is a Esv6 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1268 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
7972
(All-cores)
1949
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E16-8s_v6
Name
E16-8s_v6
API Reference
Standard_E16-8s_v6
Description
Esv6 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
Esv6
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-21T19:26:13.385211

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1955 USD/h 1.058 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1955 USD/h 1.058 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1955 USD/h 1.058 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1955 USD/h 1.058 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2194 USD/h 1.058 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.2005 USD/h 1.085 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.2005 USD/h 1.085 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.2018 USD/h 1.092 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.2018 USD/h 1.092 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 1.092 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 1.092 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.2081 USD/h 1.126 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.2142 USD/h 1.159 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.2142 USD/h 1.159 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.2151 USD/h 1.164 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.2173 USD/h 1.176 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2188 USD/h 1.184 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.2188 USD/h 1.184 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2178 USD/h 1.196 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.2249 USD/h 1.217 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1641 USD/h 1.243 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.2297 USD/h 1.243 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.2297 USD/h 1.243 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.2297 USD/h 1.243 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.2297 USD/h 1.243 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1268 USD/h 1.268 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.2343 USD/h 1.268 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.2343 USD/h 1.268 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2347 USD/h 1.27 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.2347 USD/h 1.27 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.236 USD/h 1.277 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.236 USD/h 1.277 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.236 USD/h 1.277 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.236 USD/h 1.277 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.236 USD/h 1.277 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.236 USD/h 1.277 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.236 USD/h 1.277 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.2365 USD/h 1.28 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.2365 USD/h 1.28 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.2365 USD/h 1.28 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.2367 USD/h 1.281 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.2406 USD/h 1.302 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.2462 USD/h 1.332 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.2504 USD/h 1.355 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.2543 USD/h 1.376 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.2602 USD/h 1.408 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.2602 USD/h 1.408 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.2689 USD/h 1.455 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.2739 USD/h 1.482 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2757 USD/h 1.492 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.2796 USD/h 1.513 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.2986 USD/h 1.616 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.3068 USD/h 1.66 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.3119 USD/h 1.688 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.3131 USD/h 1.694 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.3374 USD/h 1.826 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.3391 USD/h 1.835 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.343 USD/h 1.856 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.4056 USD/h 2.195 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
4.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8573C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
192 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
260 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
260 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, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, 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, user_shstk, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, waitpkg, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, serialize, tsxldtrk, ibt, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
4.1
Scalability
102.5

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
    0 GB
    Storages
    • 0 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized virtual server featuring high memory-to-core density and dedicated Intel Xeon performance for memory-intensive enterprise workloads.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure E16-8s_v6 is a memory-optimized x86_64 server instance from the Esv6 family, powered by a dedicated Intel Xeon 8573C processor operating at 4.2 GHz. It features 8 vCPUs across 4 physical cores, supported by a 260 MB L3 cache and advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and Intel AMX. The instance is configured with 128.0 GB of RAM, offering a high resource density of 16.0 GB per core, though it lacks local storage and onboard GPUs. Performance benchmarks show strong single-core capabilities, including a Geekbench single-core score of 1975.0 and efficient text processing, alongside average multi-core and database execution speeds. However, large-block memory write bandwidth is moderate at 28.08 GB/sec. This hardware profile is designed for memory-intensive applications, including database operations, caching layers, and enterprise applications requiring substantial memory capacity relative to compute resources.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.824Score
    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) 1,560,806 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.817 50.00% 50.00% -9.61%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 7,729,390 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.666 20.00% 20.00% -7.81%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,436 2,416 0.594 10.00% 10.00% -5.08%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 132,255 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 1.23 10.00% 10.00% +2.09%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,916 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 1.23 10.00% 10.00% +2.09%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,975

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 7,558

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 14255
    Compression
    		 139193
    Encryption
    		 8479
    Extended Instructions
    		 11439
    Floating Point Maths
    		 27105
    Integer Maths
    		 38234
    Physics
    		 1851
    Prime Numbers
    		 80
    Single Threaded
    		 2916
    String Sorting
    		 19191

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1436
    Database Operations
    		 4102
    Memory Latency
    		 129
    Memory Read Cached
    		 26704
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 6788
    Memory Write
    		 6201

    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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