E8_v3 by Microsoft Azure

E8_v3 is a Ev3 family [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 205 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0638 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
205 GB Storage
Spare SCore
3,703
(All-cores)
804
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E8_v3
Name
E8_v3
API Reference
Standard_E8_v3
Description
Ev3 family [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
Ev3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
23
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-25T01:32:09.336025

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0931 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0931 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0931 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0988 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2038 USD/h 0.532 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0989 USD/h 0.536 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1013 USD/h 0.548 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.548 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.548 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1024 USD/h 0.554 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1035 USD/h 0.56 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1042 USD/h 0.564 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1042 USD/h 0.564 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.1064 USD/h 0.576 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.1064 USD/h 0.576 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.1064 USD/h 0.576 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0964 USD/h 0.583 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1077 USD/h 0.583 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1077 USD/h 0.583 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1079 USD/h 0.584 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1674 USD/h 0.584 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.1094 USD/h 0.592 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1094 USD/h 0.592 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.1121 USD/h 0.605 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1124 USD/h 0.608 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1124 USD/h 0.608 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.1124 USD/h 0.608 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.1146 USD/h 0.62 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0998 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1153 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1153 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.1172 USD/h 0.634 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0638 USD/h 0.638 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.1179 USD/h 0.638 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1179 USD/h 0.638 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1179 USD/h 0.638 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1183 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1183 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1183 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1183 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1183 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.1233 USD/h 0.667 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1234 USD/h 0.668 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1242 USD/h 0.672 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.1301 USD/h 0.704 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1301 USD/h 0.704 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.1345 USD/h 0.728 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.1453 USD/h 0.786 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.146 USD/h 0.79 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.1497 USD/h 0.81 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.1557 USD/h 0.84 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.1691 USD/h 0.9148 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.1691 USD/h 0.915 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1737 USD/h 0.94 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.2258 USD/h 1.222 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
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
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
50 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
50 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
4.6
Scalability
57.5

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

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

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure E8_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the Ev3 family, featuring 8 dedicated vCPUs and 64.0 GB of RAM. Powered by an Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 processor at 2.3 GHz on the x86_64 architecture, it includes a bundled 205 GB local SSD. Benchmark data positions this server in the lower performance tiers, with single-core stress-ng and Geekbench scores in the bottom 10%, and multi-core performance in the bottom 25%. Memory bandwidth is also modest, with large-block read speeds at 35.42 GB/sec. Despite these processing limitations, the high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 8.0 GB per core provides qualitative cost efficiency for memory-bound tasks. The E8_v3 is best suited for workloads such as database operations, caching layers, and memory-intensive applications that do not demand high-frequency CPU performance.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.29Score
    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) 410,297 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.22 50.00% 50.00% -53.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,779,571 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.23 20.00% 20.00% -25.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,725 2,416 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 36,388 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.33 10.00% 10.00% -10.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,631 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 811

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 3,030

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 5,747
    Compression
    		 77,486
    Encryption
    		 1,702
    Extended Instructions
    		 3,897
    Floating Point Maths
    		 11,158
    Integer Maths
    		 17,654
    Physics
    		 686
    Prime Numbers
    		 48
    Single Threaded
    		 1,631
    String Sorting
    		 11,634

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,725
    Database Operations
    		 2,096
    Memory Latency
    		 69
    Memory Read Cached
    		 17,878
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 6,899
    Memory Write
    		 5,745

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 184.63 195.67 1.06×
    bitops
    		 84,334 349,036 4.14×
    branch
    		 110,958 626,226 5.64×
    funccall
    		 383.15 1,456 3.80×
    funcret
    		 7,610 40,592 5.33×
    hash
    		 89,812 511,925 5.70×
    intmath
    		 15,293 86,816 5.68×
    nop
    		 131,096 439,490 3.35×
    prime
    		 222,780 933,646 4.19×
    rotate
    		 71,202 348,677 4.90×
    str
    		 481,708 2,052,703 4.26×
    wcs
    		 302,114 1,289,624 4.27×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 1,653 6,060 3.67×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 370.94 1,813 4.89×
    zlib
    		 41.14 219.95 5.35×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 13,012 60,400 4.64×
    clone
    		 997.3 3,688 3.70×
    context
    		 1,441 6,892 4.78×
    cpu-sched
    		 52.42 518.3 9.89×
    eventfd
    		 19,123 265,204 13.87×
    fault
    		 4,885 24,071 4.93×
    fork
    		 2,424 11,892 4.91×
    getrandom
    		 31,054 140,197 4.51×
    hrtimers
    		 320,444 475,996 1.49×
    mprotect
    		 621,451 828,239 1.33×
    mtx
    		 10,922,111 116,200,668 10.64×
    munmap
    		 1,558 8,911 5.72×
    null
    		 145,037 684,683 4.72×
    pipe
    		 672,344 1,531,954 2.28×
    priv-instr
    		 333,608 1,567,085 4.70×
    resched
    		 922,685 274,303 0.30×
    switch
    		 70,538 809,811 11.48×
    timermix
    		 137,936 749,945 5.44×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 7,247 11,752 1.62×
    tsc
    		 702,124 5,099,029 7.26×
    usersyscall
    		 219,353 1,082,780 4.94×
    vdso
    		 54,646,330 288,858,653 5.29×
    vfork
    		 12,689 62,575 4.93×
    x86syscall
    		 1,615,941 7,798,414 4.83×
    yield
    		 2,480,320 2,566,236 1.03×
    zero
    		 1,063,596 4,962,004 4.67×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 10,327 50,828 4.92×
    expmath
    		 1,858 10,564 5.69×
    fma
    		 433,211 2,640,859 6.10×
    fp
    		 93.6 442.31 4.73×
    fractal
    		 3.6 18 5.00×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,046 11,871 5.80×
    logmath
    		 3,173 18,171 5.73×
    matrix
    		 2,647 11,554 4.36×
    matrix-3d
    		 581.14 1,208 2.08×
    monte-carlo
    		 75.49 409.55 5.43×
    mpfr
    		 838.7 3,237 3.86×
    powmath
    		 1,143 6,244 5.46×
    trig
    		 1,319 5,611 4.25×
    veccmp
    		 9,603 39,724 4.14×
    vecfp
    		 611.91 3,092 5.05×
    vecmath
    		 1,561 8,989 5.76×
    vecshuf
    		 382.84 1,607 4.20×
    vecwide
    		 17,497 74,363 4.25×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 5.2 22.4 4.31×
    bsearch
    		 163.18 760.71 4.66×
    bubblesort
    		 0.4 1.6 4.00×
    fibsearch
    		 196.86 900.57 4.57×
    heapsort
    		 5.8 25.6 4.41×
    hsearch
    		 3,044 13,680 4.49×
    insertionsort
    		 5.8 20.8 3.59×
    malloc
    		 1,265,728 11,381,099 8.99×
    mcontend
    		 149.87 1,619 10.80×
    mergesort
    		 18.6 96.6 5.19×
    qsort
    		 13.2 61 4.62×
    skiplist
    		 4,170 21,513 5.16×
    tree
    		 1 4.8 4.80×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 169,933 259,756 1.53×
    cachehammer
    		 414,571 2,779,542 6.70×
    cacheline
    		 27.35 247.04 9.03×
    l1cache
    		 136.36 535.19 3.92×
    memcpy
    		 296.77 1,220 4.11×
    memrate
    		 0.97 4.16 4.29×
    memthrash
    		 54.2 234.19 4.32×
    ptr-chase
    		 25,834,691 80,748,176 3.13×
    spinmem
    		 144.51 192.54 1.33×
    stream
    		 24.49 655.72 26.78×
    vm
    		 43,061 257,874 5.99×

    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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