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
7,972
(All-cores)
1,949
(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
2026-10-05T05:49:10.604890

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
0.1985 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
51.25

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
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A memory-optimized virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processing and high memory density for relational databases and caching workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      The Microsoft Azure E16-8s_v6 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the Esv6 family, powered by an Intel Xeon 8573C processor. Operating on the x86_64 architecture, it provides 8 dedicated vCPUs across 4 physical cores at a clock speed of 4.2 GHz, paired with 128.0 GB of RAM. This configuration yields a high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 16.0 GB per core. The instance lacks local storage and GPUs but supports Premium Storage. Benchmark results show average CPU performance, with a Geekbench single-core score of 1975.0 and a multi-core score of 7558.0. It demonstrates strong text processing capabilities and efficient small-model LLM text generation at 302.13 tokens/second, though memory performance in Passmark is relatively weak. This server is best suited for memory-intensive workloads, including relational databases, in-memory caching, and enterprise applications.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.82Score
      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 1,916,704 ops/sec 0.84 50.00% 50.00% -8.30%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 7,729,390 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 0.64 20.00% 20.00% -8.50%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,436 2,417 0.58 10.00% 10.00% -5.30%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 132,255 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,916 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%

      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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