E4_v3 by Microsoft Azure

E4_v3 is a Ev3 family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 102 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0319 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
102 GB Storage
Spare SCore
1,852
(All-cores)
779
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E4_v3
Name
E4_v3
API Reference
Standard_E4_v3
Description
Ev3 family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs
Family
Ev3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
23
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-01T20:55:40.185583

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0319 USD/h -
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0506 USD/h -
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0521 USD/h -
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.054 USD/h -
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0547 USD/h -
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0577 USD/h -
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0778 USD/h -
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.1129 USD/h -
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0466 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0466 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0504 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
- 0.266 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0495 USD/h 0.268 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.274 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.274 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0512 USD/h 0.277 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0532 USD/h 0.288 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0532 USD/h 0.288 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
- 0.288 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.054 USD/h 0.292 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0837 USD/h 0.292 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
- 0.292 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0547 USD/h 0.296 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
- 0.296 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.056 USD/h 0.302 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0562 USD/h 0.304 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0562 USD/h 0.304 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
- 0.304 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0573 USD/h 0.31 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0549 USD/h 0.312 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0577 USD/h 0.312 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0586 USD/h 0.317 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.059 USD/h 0.319 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.059 USD/h 0.319 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.059 USD/h 0.319 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0591 USD/h 0.32 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0591 USD/h 0.32 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0591 USD/h 0.32 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0591 USD/h 0.32 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
- 0.32 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0617 USD/h 0.334 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
- 0.334 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0621 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.065 USD/h 0.352 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
- 0.352 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.0673 USD/h 0.364 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0726 USD/h 0.393 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.073 USD/h 0.395 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.075 USD/h 0.4056 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0845 USD/h 0.4574 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
- 0.458 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2673 v4
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
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
36 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
36 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, rdseed, adx, smap, xsaveopt, vnmi, md_clear
Ecpus
2.4
Scalability
60

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    102 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 102 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 offering high memory density and local SSD storage for memory-intensive workloads with moderate compute requirements.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure E4_v3 is an Ev3-family virtual machine featuring 4 vCPUs and 32.0 GB of RAM, providing a high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 8 GB per core. It runs on an Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 processor at 2.3 GHz with 2 physical cores, hyper-threading, and a 35 MB L3 cache. The server includes 102 GB of local SSD storage and operates on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. Performance benchmarks place this instance in the lower tiers, with stress-ng and Geekbench scores in the bottom 10%, and memory bandwidth and database operations categorized as weak or poor. Qualitatively, the E4_v3 offers high memory density at the expense of raw compute speed. It is suitable for memory-intensive workloads with low CPU demands, such as small databases, caching layers, and legacy enterprise applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.18Score
    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) 217,744 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.12 50.00% 50.00% -65.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,508,339 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.12 20.00% 20.00% -35.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,668 2,416 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 21,924 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.2 10.00% 10.00% -15.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,473 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 833

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,779

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 3,175
    Compression
    		 40,026
    Encryption
    		 1,245
    Extended Instructions
    		 2,672
    Floating Point Maths
    		 4,841
    Integer Maths
    		 9,029
    Physics
    		 335
    Prime Numbers
    		 16
    Single Threaded
    		 1,473
    String Sorting
    		 4,814

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,668
    Database Operations
    		 1,104
    Memory Latency
    		 62
    Memory Read Cached
    		 17,729
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 6,850
    Memory Write
    		 7,756

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 211.9 202.3 0.95×
    bitops
    		 82,202 184,727 2.25×
    branch
    		 113,190 331,541 2.93×
    funccall
    		 398.37 814.27 2.04×
    funcret
    		 8,358 23,253 2.78×
    hash
    		 92,688 260,494 2.81×
    intmath
    		 16,254 46,938 2.89×
    nop
    		 140,232 239,174 1.71×
    prime
    		 235,731 517,311 2.19×
    rotate
    		 70,916 189,956 2.68×
    str
    		 537,363 1,173,490 2.18×
    wcs
    		 345,702 742,398 2.15×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 1,759 3,443 1.96×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 423.34 1,022 2.41×
    zlib
    		 33.56 114.52 3.41×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 15,507 38,126 2.46×
    clone
    		 844.89 2,026 2.40×
    context
    		 1,461 3,935 2.69×
    cpu-sched
    		 65.66 253.14 3.86×
    eventfd
    		 24,301 148,130 6.10×
    fault
    		 7,148 15,976 2.24×
    fork
    		 2,791 7,799 2.79×
    getrandom
    		 32,628 79,000 2.42×
    hrtimers
    		 160,859 287,096 1.78×
    mprotect
    		 422,308 450,847 1.07×
    mtx
    		 9,279,620 81,132,930 8.74×
    munmap
    		 2,040 5,561 2.73×
    null
    		 155,226 387,713 2.50×
    pipe
    		 665,708 995,433 1.50×
    priv-instr
    		 334,291 853,809 2.55×
    resched
    		 422,008 149,731 0.35×
    switch
    		 40,560 460,491 11.35×
    timermix
    		 155,278 424,687 2.74×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 5,115 5,979 1.17×
    tsc
    		 726,045 1,970,362 2.71×
    usersyscall
    		 234,437 580,282 2.48×
    vdso
    		 53,180,370 149,227,159 2.81×
    vfork
    		 16,476 48,843 2.96×
    x86syscall
    		 1,763,194 4,422,954 2.51×
    yield
    		 1,347,032 1,320,381 0.98×
    zero
    		 1,155,321 2,789,370 2.41×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 11,848 29,707 2.51×
    expmath
    		 1,964 5,909 3.01×
    fma
    		 459,405 1,548,202 3.37×
    fp
    		 118.85 313.44 2.64×
    fractal
    		 3.8 11.2 2.95×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,048 6,278 3.07×
    logmath
    		 3,327 9,673 2.91×
    matrix
    		 2,258 7,080 3.14×
    matrix-3d
    		 442.94 773.02 1.75×
    monte-carlo
    		 85.06 213.63 2.51×
    mpfr
    		 887.47 1,862 2.10×
    powmath
    		 1,164 3,504 3.01×
    trig
    		 1,255 3,263 2.60×
    veccmp
    		 11,244 22,166 1.97×
    vecfp
    		 1,642 3,992 2.43×
    vecmath
    		 1,542 4,795 3.11×
    vecshuf
    		 679.84 1,458 2.14×
    vecwide
    		 41,586 95,468 2.30×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 5.2 11.6 2.23×
    bsearch
    		 178.03 391.16 2.20×
    bubblesort
    		 0.4 0.8 2.00×
    fibsearch
    		 156.99 384.04 2.45×
    heapsort
    		 6.2 15.2 2.45×
    hsearch
    		 3,693 9,175 2.48×
    insertionsort
    		 6 11.4 1.90×
    malloc
    		 1,284,753 5,156,016 4.01×
    mcontend
    		 152.85 733.89 4.80×
    mergesort
    		 17 45.4 2.67×
    qsort
    		 10.8 24.8 2.30×
    skiplist
    		 3,580 10,059 2.81×
    tree
    		 0.8 2.4 3.00×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 192,842 255,120 1.32×
    cachehammer
    		 340,203 1,214,728 3.57×
    cacheline
    		 18.42 83.33 4.52×
    l1cache
    		 162.2 358.13 2.21×
    memcpy
    		 254.98 539.56 2.12×
    memrate
    		 0.96 2.29 2.39×
    memthrash
    		 65.71 134.46 2.05×
    ptr-chase
    		 10,745,755 39,260,430 3.65×
    spinmem
    		 313.38 198.57 0.63×
    stream
    		 24.13 234.53 9.72×
    vm
    		 55,314 206,242 3.73×

    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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