E32-16s_v6 by Microsoft Azure

E32-16s_v6 is a Esv6 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2537 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
15,985
(All-cores)
1,945
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E32-16s_v6
Name
E32-16s_v6
API Reference
Standard_E32-16s_v6
Description
Esv6 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs
Family
Esv6
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
19
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-06T09:11:39.569059

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.3912 USD/h 2.117 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.3912 USD/h 2.117 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.3912 USD/h 2.117 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.3912 USD/h 2.117 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.4391 USD/h 2.117 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.4012 USD/h 2.171 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.4012 USD/h 2.171 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.4036 USD/h 2.184 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.4036 USD/h 2.184 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 2.184 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 2.184 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.416 USD/h 2.251 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.4284 USD/h 2.318 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.4284 USD/h 2.318 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.4304 USD/h 2.329 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.4346 USD/h 2.352 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.4378 USD/h 2.369 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.4378 USD/h 2.369 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.4356 USD/h 2.392 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.4498 USD/h 2.434 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.4368 USD/h 2.486 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.4594 USD/h 2.486 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.4594 USD/h 2.486 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.4594 USD/h 2.486 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.4594 USD/h 2.486 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.2537 USD/h 2.537 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.4688 USD/h 2.537 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.4688 USD/h 2.537 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.4694 USD/h 2.54 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.4694 USD/h 2.54 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.472 USD/h 2.554 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.472 USD/h 2.554 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.472 USD/h 2.554 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.472 USD/h 2.554 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.472 USD/h 2.554 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.472 USD/h 2.554 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.472 USD/h 2.554 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.4731 USD/h 2.56 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.4731 USD/h 2.56 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.4731 USD/h 2.56 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.4733 USD/h 2.561 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.4812 USD/h 2.604 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.4923 USD/h 2.664 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.5006 USD/h 2.709 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.5086 USD/h 2.752 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.5202 USD/h 2.815 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.5202 USD/h 2.815 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.538 USD/h 2.911 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.5477 USD/h 2.964 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.5516 USD/h 2.985 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.5594 USD/h 3.027 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.5973 USD/h 3.232 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.6135 USD/h 3.32 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.6241 USD/h 3.377 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.6261 USD/h 3.388 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.6749 USD/h 3.652 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.678 USD/h 3.669 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.6862 USD/h 3.713 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.8113 USD/h 4.39 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
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
384 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 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
8.2
Scalability
51.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
256 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
256 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

      A memory-dense virtual server featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processing and advanced matrix extensions for memory-bound enterprise workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Microsoft Azure E32-16s_v6 is an x86_64 memory-optimized virtual machine from the Esv6 family, operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It is equipped with an Intel Xeon 8573C processor running at 4.2 GHz, providing 16 dedicated vCPUs across 8 physical cores, and 256.0 GB of RAM. This configuration yields a high memory-to-core ratio of 16.0 GB per core. The server lacks local storage and GPUs but supports Premium Storage. Benchmarks show strong single-core performance, with a Geekbench single-core score of 2000.0 and top-tier text generation speeds of 373.33 tokens/sec for small LLMs. However, uncached memory bandwidth is a relative bottleneck, reflected in a weak PassMark memory score. This server is suited for memory-intensive applications, in-memory databases, text processing, and software compilation.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.4Score
      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) 3,182,618 ops/sec 1,936,298 ops/sec 1.7 50.00% 50.00% +30.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 15,490,008 ops/sec 11,797,257 ops/sec 1.2 20.00% 20.00% +3.70%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,783 2,407 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 204,017 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 1.8 10.00% 10.00% +6.10%
      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: 2,000

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 12,143

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 26,652
      Compression
      		 276,300
      Encryption
      		 16,918
      Extended Instructions
      		 23,326
      Floating Point Maths
      		 54,270
      Integer Maths
      		 76,549
      Physics
      		 3,690
      Prime Numbers
      		 155
      Single Threaded
      		 2,916
      String Sorting
      		 37,887

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,783
      Database Operations
      		 7,722
      Memory Latency
      		 97
      Memory Read Cached
      		 26,600
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 7,486
      Memory Write
      		 6,879

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 242.65 195.76 0.81×
      bitops
      		 141,176 1,287,264 9.12×
      branch
      		 133,933 1,580,481 11.80×
      funccall
      		 716.42 7,116 9.93×
      funcret
      		 12,081 140,412 11.62×
      hash
      		 171,114 1,872,077 10.94×
      intmath
      		 62,435 556,079 8.91×
      nop
      		 255,901 1,556,890 6.08×
      prime
      		 454,969 4,175,842 9.18×
      rotate
      		 96,348 771,268 8.01×
      str
      		 861,915 10,241,524 11.88×
      wcs
      		 643,277 6,361,057 9.89×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,255 27,817 8.55×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 779.22 7,797 10.01×
      zlib
      		 47.98 633.36 13.20×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 37,550 257,609 6.86×
      clone
      		 1,412 10,924 7.74×
      context
      		 5,122 64,205 12.53×
      cpu-sched
      		 63.93 1,015 15.88×
      eventfd
      		 38,311 565,953 14.77×
      fault
      		 21,454 132,147 6.16×
      fork
      		 5,597 36,888 6.59×
      getrandom
      		 55,698 646,941 11.62×
      hrtimers
      		 127,349 1,976,248 15.52×
      mprotect
      		 925,215 4,995,867 5.40×
      mtx
      		 12,923,742 502,583,299 38.89×
      munmap
      		 4,306 36,203 8.41×
      null
      		 828,579 9,861,676 11.90×
      pipe
      		 730,314 12,033,734 16.48×
      priv-instr
      		 827,131 8,415,627 10.17×
      resched
      		 7,109,414 1,019,876 0.14×
      switch
      		 93,802 4,609,375 49.14×
      timermix
      		 239,441 2,985,301 12.47×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 10,671 34,305 3.21×
      tsc
      		 875,624 10,189,015 11.64×
      usersyscall
      		 687,553 7,176,594 10.44×
      vdso
      		 102,318,366 1,150,008,897 11.24×
      vfork
      		 25,378 239,634 9.44×
      x86syscall
      		 10,089,369 130,274,675 12.91×
      yield
      		 14,945,528 17,284,337 1.16×
      zero
      		 5,575,951 68,282,839 12.25×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 15,047 154,958 10.30×
      expmath
      		 3,388 37,522 11.07×
      fma
      		 1,228,846 12,407,568 10.10×
      fp
      		 189.15 2,232 11.80×
      fractal
      		 6.2 68.81 11.10×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,923 42,444 10.82×
      logmath
      		 4,999 60,457 12.09×
      matrix
      		 4,739 43,247 9.13×
      matrix-3d
      		 709.38 5,067 7.14×
      monte-carlo
      		 290.38 3,592 12.37×
      mpfr
      		 1,672 14,540 8.70×
      powmath
      		 1,885 21,851 11.59×
      trig
      		 2,573 25,773 10.02×
      veccmp
      		 24,107 212,148 8.80×
      vecfp
      		 1,480 14,148 9.56×
      vecmath
      		 3,772 40,683 10.79×
      vecshuf
      		 797.37 6,924 8.68×
      vecwide
      		 34,120 307,485 9.01×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 8.4 76.8 9.14×
      bsearch
      		 277.28 2,747 9.91×
      bubblesort
      		 1 9.6 9.60×
      fibsearch
      		 298.4 2,832 9.49×
      heapsort
      		 9.6 99.4 10.35×
      hsearch
      		 7,812 76,163 9.75×
      insertionsort
      		 11 79.8 7.25×
      malloc
      		 2,738,521 27,787,134 10.15×
      mcontend
      		 108.09 2,728 25.24×
      mergesort
      		 29.6 321.39 10.86×
      qsort
      		 21.2 226.79 10.70×
      skiplist
      		 5,205 63,199 12.14×
      tree
      		 1.8 19.2 10.67×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 303,891 1,183,410 3.89×
      cachehammer
      		 214,623 2,662,439 12.41×
      cacheline
      		 58.13 978.97 16.84×
      l1cache
      		 1,037 3,013 2.91×
      memcpy
      		 420.97 3,181 7.56×
      memrate
      		 0.13 1.89 14.54×
      memthrash
      		 153.68 650.48 4.23×
      ptr-chase
      		 34,960,006 329,883,511 9.44×
      spinmem
      		 331.99 929.13 2.80×
      stream
      		 6.63 794.32 119.81×
      vm
      		 170,011 294,144 1.73×

      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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