E96a_v4 by Microsoft Azure

E96a_v4 is a EAv4 family [AMD processor] 96 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 96 vCPUs, 672 GiB of memory and 2.46 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.7046 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
672 GiB Memory
2.46 TB Storage
Spare SCore
36,746
(All-cores)
783
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E96a_v4
Name
E96a_v4
API Reference
Standard_E96a_v4
Description
EAv4 family [AMD processor] 96 vCPUs
Family
EAv4
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-31T04:55:00.579824

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.7046 USD/h 3.813 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 3.813 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 3.813 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
1.1177 USD/h 6.048 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
1.1177 USD/h 6.048 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
1.1177 USD/h 6.048 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
1.1177 USD/h 6.048 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
1.2731 USD/h 6.048 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
1.1532 USD/h 6.24 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
1.1798 USD/h 6.384 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
1.1886 USD/h 6.432 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
1.2064 USD/h 6.528 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
1.2134 USD/h 6.566 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
1.2152 USD/h 6.576 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
1.2152 USD/h 6.576 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
1.2152 USD/h 6.576 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
1.2241 USD/h 6.624 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
1.2241 USD/h 6.624 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
1.2295 USD/h 6.653 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
1.2419 USD/h 6.72 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
1.2507 USD/h 6.768 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
1.2622 USD/h 6.834 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
1.2773 USD/h 6.912 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
1.1345 USD/h 7.104 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
1.3128 USD/h 7.104 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
1.3128 USD/h 7.104 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
1.3128 USD/h 7.104 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.7248 USD/h 7.248 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
1.3394 USD/h 7.248 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
1.3394 USD/h 7.248 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
1.3413 USD/h 7.258 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
1.3413 USD/h 7.258 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
1.3483 USD/h 7.296 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
1.3483 USD/h 7.296 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
1.3483 USD/h 7.296 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
1.3483 USD/h 7.296 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
1.3483 USD/h 7.296 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
1.3483 USD/h 7.296 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
1.3483 USD/h 7.296 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
1.3524 USD/h 7.318 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
1.3758 USD/h 7.445 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
1.3758 USD/h 7.445 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
1.4034 USD/h 7.594 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
1.5471 USD/h 7.61 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
1.4305 USD/h 7.741 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
1.4529 USD/h 7.862 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
1.4814 USD/h 8.016 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
1.4902 USD/h 8.064 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
1.576 USD/h 8.528 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
1.5983 USD/h 8.649 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
1.5983 USD/h 8.649 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
1.7066 USD/h 9.235 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
1.7528 USD/h 9.485 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.783 USD/h 9.648 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
1.7883 USD/h 9.677 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
1.9373 USD/h 10.483 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
2.0777 USD/h 11.243 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
2.0777 USD/h 11.243 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
2.3178 USD/h 12.542 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
96
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
48
CPU Speed
3.35 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
7452
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
24 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 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, ht, syscall, nx, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, rep_good, nopl, cpuid, extd_apicid, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, topoext, ssbd, vmmcall, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaveerptr, arat, umip, rdpid
Ecpus
46.9
Scalability
48.85

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
672 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
672 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    2458 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 2458 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A high-capacity memory-optimized instance with integrated local SSD storage, designed for demanding database and multi-threaded data processing workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure E96a_v4 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the EAv4 family, featuring 96 vCPUs, 48 physical cores, and an AMD EPYC 7452 processor running at 3.35 GHz. It is equipped with 672.0 GB of RAM and 2458 GB of local SSD storage, managed via Microsoft Hyper-V. While single-core CPU performance and large-model LLM inference are relatively weak, the server delivers strong multi-threaded capabilities, particularly in memory bandwidth, cryptographic operations, and Redis SET throughput. The high memory-to-core ratio and integrated local SSD storage make this instance highly suitable for memory-intensive workloads, large-scale databases, and caching platforms where parallel processing and high memory capacity are critical.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    2.6Score
    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) 7,050,121 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 3.7 50.00% 50.00% +92.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 43,903,303 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 3.7 20.00% 20.00% +30.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,874 2,416 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 164,532 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1.5 10.00% 10.00% +4.10%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,155 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.92 10.00% 10.00% -0.83%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,384

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 12,195

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 68,394
    Compression
    		 1,283,000
    Encryption
    		 97,050
    Extended Instructions
    		 71,592
    Floating Point Maths
    		 189,889
    Integer Maths
    		 318,625
    Physics
    		 7,643
    Prime Numbers
    		 463
    Single Threaded
    		 2,155
    String Sorting
    		 169,580

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,874
    Database Operations
    		 21,485
    Memory Latency
    		 51
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24,920
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 12,449
    Memory Write
    		 10,897

    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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