E96-48s_v6 by Microsoft Azure
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(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | azure |
Server ID | Standard_E96-48s_v6 |
Name | E96-48s_v6 |
API Reference | Standard_E96-48s_v6 |
Description | Esv6 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs |
Family | Esv6 |
Hw Virt | |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-06-29T23:13:17.814222 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
East US 2 (US) / eastus2 | 1.1735 USD/h | 6.35 USD/h |
North Central US (US) / northcentralus | 1.1735 USD/h | 6.35 USD/h |
West US 2 (US) / westus2 | 1.1735 USD/h | 6.35 USD/h |
West US 3 (US) / westus3 | 1.1735 USD/h | 6.35 USD/h |
East US (US) / eastus | 1.317 USD/h | 6.35 USD/h |
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral | 1.2034 USD/h | 6.512 USD/h |
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest | 1.2034 USD/h | 6.512 USD/h |
Central India (IN) / centralindia | 1.2108 USD/h | 6.552 USD/h |
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral | - | 6.552 USD/h |
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest | - | 6.552 USD/h |
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral | 1.2481 USD/h | 6.754 USD/h |
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral | 1.2853 USD/h | 6.955 USD/h |
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast | 1.2853 USD/h | 6.955 USD/h |
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral | 1.291 USD/h | 6.986 USD/h |
West US (US) / westus | 1.3039 USD/h | 7.056 USD/h |
North Europe (IE) / northeurope | 1.3134 USD/h | 7.107 USD/h |
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral | 1.3134 USD/h | 7.107 USD/h |
Central US (US) / centralus | 1.2895 USD/h | 7.176 USD/h |
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth | 1.3496 USD/h | 7.303 USD/h |
UK South (GB) / uksouth | 0.8951 USD/h | 7.459 USD/h |
France Central (FR) / francecentral | 1.3784 USD/h | 7.459 USD/h |
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral | 1.3784 USD/h | 7.459 USD/h |
Italy North (IT) / italynorth | 1.3784 USD/h | 7.459 USD/h |
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral | 1.3784 USD/h | 7.459 USD/h |
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2 | 0.7611 USD/h | 7.611 USD/h |
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral | 1.4065 USD/h | 7.611 USD/h |
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast | 1.4065 USD/h | 7.611 USD/h |
South Central US (US) / southcentralus | 1.4082 USD/h | 7.62 USD/h |
West Central US (US) / westcentralus | 1.4082 USD/h | 7.62 USD/h |
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast | 1.4158 USD/h | 7.661 USD/h |
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral | 1.4158 USD/h | 7.661 USD/h |
Japan East (JP) / japaneast | 1.4158 USD/h | 7.661 USD/h |
Japan West (JP) / japanwest | 1.4158 USD/h | 7.661 USD/h |
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral | 1.4158 USD/h | 7.661 USD/h |
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia | 1.4158 USD/h | 7.661 USD/h |
West Europe (NL) / westeurope | 1.4158 USD/h | 7.661 USD/h |
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral | 1.4193 USD/h | 7.68 USD/h |
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast | 1.4193 USD/h | 7.68 USD/h |
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral | 1.4193 USD/h | 7.68 USD/h |
UK West (GB) / ukwest | 1.42 USD/h | 7.684 USD/h |
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth | 1.4435 USD/h | 7.811 USD/h |
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth | 1.4767 USD/h | 7.991 USD/h |
West India (IN) / westindia | 1.5021 USD/h | 8.128 USD/h |
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast | 1.5257 USD/h | 8.256 USD/h |
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth | 1.5608 USD/h | 8.446 USD/h |
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth | 1.5608 USD/h | 8.446 USD/h |
East Asia (HK) / eastasia | 1.6137 USD/h | 8.732 USD/h |
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral | 1.6431 USD/h | 8.891 USD/h |
South India (IN) / southindia | 1.6547 USD/h | 8.954 USD/h |
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast | 1.6782 USD/h | 9.081 USD/h |
France South (FR) / francesouth | 1.792 USD/h | 9.697 USD/h |
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth | 1.8404 USD/h | 9.959 USD/h |
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth | 1.8722 USD/h | 10.131 USD/h |
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral | 1.8781 USD/h | 10.163 USD/h |
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest | 2.0245 USD/h | 10.955 USD/h |
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest | 2.0341 USD/h | 11.007 USD/h |
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest | 2.0585 USD/h | 11.139 USD/h |
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast | 2.4336 USD/h | 13.169 USD/h |
Processor
vCPUs | 48 |
Hypervisor | Microsoft Hyper-V |
CPU Allocation | Dedicated |
CPU Cores | 24 |
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 | 1 MiB |
CPU L1I Cache | 32 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache Total | 768 KiB |
CPU L2 Cache | 2 MiB |
CPU L2 Cache Total | 48 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache | 260 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache Total | 520 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 | 24.6 |
Scalability | 102.5 |
System Resources and Accelerators
| MEMORY | |
|---|---|
Memory Amount | 768 GiB |
Memory Amount Actual | 768 GiB |
| GPU | |
|---|---|
GPU Count | 0 |
GPU Memory Min | 0 MiB |
GPU Memory Total | 0 MiB |
GPUs |
| STORAGE | |
|---|---|
Storage Size | 0 GB |
Storages |
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| NETWORK | |
|---|---|
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
Server Description
A memory-dense, Intel-powered virtual server featuring high memory bandwidth and advanced matrix extensions for memory-intensive enterprise workloads.
Microsoft Azure E96-48s_v6 is an x86_64 memory-optimized server from the Esv6 family, powered by a 24-core Intel Xeon 8573C processor running at 4.2 GHz with 48 dedicated vCPUs. It features 768.0 GB of RAM, providing a high ratio of 16.0 GB per core, but lacks local storage and GPUs. Performance benchmarks show strong capabilities, with memory bandwidth, database operations, and Redis SET operations scoring in the top 25%. The processor's Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) enable strong prompt processing speeds for language models. Lacking local storage, the instance relies on remote Premium Storage. It is designed for memory-intensive workloads, including in-memory databases, large-scale data compilation, and CPU-based inference.
Economics
Performance
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Geekbench Multi-Core
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 63899 |
Compression | 822192 |
Encryption | 50749 |
Extended Instructions | 70187 |
Floating Point Maths | 162693 |
Integer Maths | 229542 |
Physics | 10866 |
Prime Numbers | 473 |
Single Threaded | 2922 |
String Sorting | 113594 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 2569 |
Database Operations | 27022 |
Memory Latency | 62 |
Memory Read Cached | 26173 |
Memory Read Uncached | 10775 |
Memory Write | 9636 |
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
Alternatives
Servers of the Same Family
| INSTANCE | vCPUs | MEMORY | GPUs |
|---|---|---|---|
| E2s_v6 | 2 | 16 GiB | 0 |
| E4-2s_v6 | 2 | 32 GiB | 0 |
| E8-2s_v6 | 2 | 64 GiB | 0 |
| E4s_v6 | 4 | 32 GiB | 0 |
| E8-4s_v6 | 4 | 64 GiB | 0 |
| E16-4s_v6 | 4 | 128 GiB | 0 |
| E8s_v6 | 8 | 64 GiB | 0 |
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