E64-16s_v3 by Microsoft Azure

E64-16s_v3 is a ESv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 64 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 432 GiB of memory and 885 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.4347 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
432 GiB Memory
885 GB Storage
Spare SCore
13,151
(All-cores)
1,246
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E64-16s_v3
Name
E64-16s_v3
API Reference
Standard_E64-16s_v3
Description
ESv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 64 vCPUs
Family
ESv3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-04T17:53:10.324063

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.6706 USD/h 3.629 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.6706 USD/h 3.629 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.6706 USD/h 3.629 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.7254 USD/h 3.629 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
1.2513 USD/h 3.629 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.7172 USD/h 3.881 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.7276 USD/h 3.937 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 3.937 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 3.937 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.7344 USD/h 3.974 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
1.1389 USD/h 3.974 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.7377 USD/h 3.992 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.7451 USD/h 4.032 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.7505 USD/h 4.061 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.7505 USD/h 4.061 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.7664 USD/h 4.147 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.7664 USD/h 4.147 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.776 USD/h 4.199 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.776 USD/h 4.199 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.706 USD/h 4.2 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.7876 USD/h 4.262 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.7876 USD/h 4.262 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.75 USD/h 4.264 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.788 USD/h 4.264 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.7916 USD/h 4.288 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.4347 USD/h 4.347 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.8033 USD/h 4.347 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.8033 USD/h 4.347 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.8033 USD/h 4.347 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.807 USD/h 4.355 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.8072 USD/h 4.368 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.8087 USD/h 4.376 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.8087 USD/h 4.376 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.8087 USD/h 4.376 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.8091 USD/h 4.378 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.8091 USD/h 4.378 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.8294 USD/h 4.488 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.8438 USD/h 4.566 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.8517 USD/h 4.609 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.8517 USD/h 4.609 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.8872 USD/h 4.801 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.8889 USD/h 4.81 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.8896 USD/h 4.8136 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.8896 USD/h 4.814 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.8987 USD/h 4.863 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.9172 USD/h 4.963 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.9687 USD/h 5.242 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
1.0462 USD/h 5.661 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
1.0517 USD/h 5.691 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
1.0783 USD/h 5.835 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
1.1296 USD/h 6.096 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
1.1563 USD/h 6.2568 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
1.1565 USD/h 6.258 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.25 USD/h 6.764 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
1.6259 USD/h 8.798 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
2.6 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8272CL
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
36 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
72 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, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xsaves, vnmi, md_clear
Ecpus
10.6
Scalability
66.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
432 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
432 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    885 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 885 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized virtual machine featuring an exceptional RAM-to-vCPU ratio and local SSD storage for memory-bound enterprise workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    The Microsoft Azure E64-16s_v3 is an ESv3-family virtual machine optimized for memory-intensive workloads. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor with 16 dedicated vCPUs (8 physical cores) running at 2.6 GHz, it features an exceptionally high memory capacity of 432.0 GB (27.0 GB per vCPU) and an 885 GB local SSD. While single-core benchmark results are weak, multi-core performance and memory bandwidth consistently rank in the average tier. This hardware profile is highly cost-efficient for workloads requiring massive memory capacity without a high vCPU count, thereby minimizing core-based software licensing fees. It is best suited for in-memory databases, caching layers, and memory-bound data processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.72Score
    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) 1,210,062 ops/sec 1,926,573 ops/sec 0.63 50.00% 50.00% -21.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 8,001,182 ops/sec 11,789,031 ops/sec 0.67 20.00% 20.00% -7.70%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,673 2,410 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 110,140 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,785 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,088

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 6,672

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 14,471
    Compression
    		 194,223
    Encryption
    		 6,063
    Extended Instructions
    		 14,179
    Floating Point Maths
    		 23,586
    Integer Maths
    		 44,021
    Physics
    		 1,790
    Prime Numbers
    		 101
    Single Threaded
    		 1,785
    String Sorting
    		 23,136

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,673
    Database Operations
    		 5,449
    Memory Latency
    		 49
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21,414
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11,707
    Memory Write
    		 10,480

    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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