E96bs_v5 by Microsoft Azure

E96bs_v5 is a EBSv5 family [Block Storage performance] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 96 vCPUs, 672 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.8544 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
672 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
93,261
(All-cores)
1,900
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E96bs_v5
Name
E96bs_v5
API Reference
Standard_E96bs_v5
Description
EBSv5 family [Block Storage performance] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs
Family
EBSv5
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-10T12:01:52.449630

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
1.3217 USD/h 7.152 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
1.3217 USD/h 7.152 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
1.3217 USD/h 7.152 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
1.5062 USD/h 7.152 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
2.6276 USD/h 7.152 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
1.3749 USD/h 7.44 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
1.3749 USD/h 7.44 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 7.44 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 7.44 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
1.4156 USD/h 7.656 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
1.4211 USD/h 7.69 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
1.4211 USD/h 7.69 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
1.4538 USD/h 7.867 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
1.4592 USD/h 7.896 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
2.8686 USD/h 7.896 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
1.4814 USD/h 8.016 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
1.9886 USD/h 8.064 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
1.4936 USD/h 8.082 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
1.52 USD/h 8.225 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
1.5656 USD/h 8.472 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
1.5656 USD/h 8.472 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.8544 USD/h 8.544 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
1.5789 USD/h 8.544 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
1.5789 USD/h 8.544 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
1.5789 USD/h 8.544 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
1.5789 USD/h 8.544 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
1.5789 USD/h 8.544 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
1.5789 USD/h 8.544 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
1.5789 USD/h 8.544 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
1.5789 USD/h 8.544 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
1.5789 USD/h 8.544 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
1.5789 USD/h 8.544 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
1.5789 USD/h 8.544 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
1.5789 USD/h 8.544 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
1.5841 USD/h 8.544 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
1.586 USD/h 8.582 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
1.586 USD/h 8.582 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
1.5993 USD/h 8.654 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
1.6055 USD/h 8.688 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
1.641 USD/h 8.88 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
1.641 USD/h 8.88 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
1.641 USD/h 8.88 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
1.6854 USD/h 9.12 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
1.6918 USD/h 9.155 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
1.7183 USD/h 9.298 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
1.7652 USD/h 9.552 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
1.7741 USD/h 9.6 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
1.8504 USD/h 10.013 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
1.8635 USD/h 10.084 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
1.89 USD/h 10.227 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
1.89 USD/h 10.227 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
2.0354 USD/h 11.014 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
2.0526 USD/h 11.107 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
2.1245 USD/h 11.496 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
2.1333 USD/h 11.544 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
2.3063 USD/h 12.48 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
2.4571 USD/h 13.296 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
2.4571 USD/h 13.296 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
2.7618 USD/h 14.945 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
96
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
48
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8370C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
60 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
96 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, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, fsrm, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
49.1
Scalability
51.15

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
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A high-memory, block-storage-optimized virtual machine featuring ninety-six Intel vCPUs and robust multi-core performance for enterprise database workloads.

      Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

      Microsoft Azure E96bs_v5 is an EBSv5-family virtual machine configured with 96 dedicated vCPUs and 672.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8370C processor at 2.8 GHz. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this x86_64 instance lacks local storage and GPUs but is optimized for Premium Block Storage. Benchmarks show strong multi-core capabilities, placing in the top 25% for multi-threaded decompression and memory bandwidth, alongside a top 10% tier ranking in cryptographic encryption. Single-core performance remains average. The server is highly effective for database operations, high-throughput web serving, and memory-intensive enterprise applications. However, it exhibits a clear performance tradeoff in large language model text generation, where throughput drops to a weak 2.74 tokens/sec for 70B models due to the absence of hardware accelerators.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      3.9Score
      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) 12,431,771 ops/sec 1,921,522 ops/sec 6.3 50.00% 50.00% +150.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 59,132,415 ops/sec 11,803,344 ops/sec 4.9 20.00% 20.00% +37.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,948 2,406 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 345,056 MB/sec 108,665 MB/sec 3.2 10.00% 10.00% +12.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,435 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,708

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 17,571

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 76,808
      Compression
      		 1,459,461
      Encryption
      		 87,562
      Extended Instructions
      		 84,461
      Floating Point Maths
      		 206,595
      Integer Maths
      		 404,159
      Physics
      		 7,753
      Prime Numbers
      		 476
      Single Threaded
      		 2,435
      String Sorting
      		 201,040

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,948
      Database Operations
      		 30,802
      Memory Latency
      		 51
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24,295
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 12,939
      Memory Write
      		 11,537

      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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