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E96pds_v6 by Microsoft Azure

E96pds_v6 is a Epdsv6 family [ARM processor] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 96 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 96 vCPUs, 672 GiB of memory and 5.67 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.7764 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
672 GiB Memory
5.67 TB Storage
Spare SCore
198369
(All-cores)
2073
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E96pds_v6
Name
E96pds_v6
API Reference
Standard_E96pds_v6
Description
Epdsv6 family [ARM processor] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 96 vCPUs
Family
Epdsv6
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
138
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-29T09:02:05.169912

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.8242 USD/h 3.686 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
1.0378 USD/h 5.616 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
1.0378 USD/h 5.616 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
1.0378 USD/h 5.616 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
1.8218 USD/h 5.616 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
2.1498 USD/h 5.616 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
1.1053 USD/h 5.981 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
1.1408 USD/h 6.173 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
1.1532 USD/h 6.24 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
1.1532 USD/h 6.24 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
1.1585 USD/h 6.269 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
1.4049 USD/h 6.269 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
1.7413 USD/h 6.346 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.7764 USD/h 6.47 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
1.2064 USD/h 6.528 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
1.2117 USD/h 6.557 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
1.3199 USD/h 6.557 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
1.24 USD/h 6.71 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
1.24 USD/h 6.71 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
1.9573 USD/h 6.71 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
1.2454 USD/h 6.739 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
1.2454 USD/h 6.739 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
1.2542 USD/h 6.787 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
1.5634 USD/h 6.854 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
1.2932 USD/h 6.998 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
1.3457 USD/h 6.998 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
1.3341 USD/h 7.219 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
1.3359 USD/h 7.229 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
1.3483 USD/h 7.296 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
1.3518 USD/h 7.315 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
1.3572 USD/h 7.344 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
1.4281 USD/h 7.728 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
1.4547 USD/h 7.872 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
1.4832 USD/h 8.026 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
1.6179 USD/h 8.755 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.648 USD/h 8.918 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
96
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
96
CPU Speed
3.4 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Manufacturer
Microsoft
CPU Family
ARM
CPU Model
Neoverse-N2
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
6 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
6 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
96 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
128 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
128 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, atomics, fphp, asimdhp, cpuid, asimdrdm, jscvt, fcma, lrcpc, dcpop, sha3, sm3, sm4, asimddp, sha512, sve, asimdfhm, uscat, ilrcpc, flagm, ssbs, sb, paca, pacg, dcpodp, sve2, sveaes, svebitperm, svesha3, svesm4, flagm2, frint, svei8mm, svebf16, i8mm, bf16
Ecpus
95.7
Scalability
99.69

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
672 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
672 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    5669 GB
    Storages
    • 0 GB ssd (temp disk)
    • 5669 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A high-density ARM64 virtual machine delivering ninety-six dedicated cores, massive memory bandwidth, and extensive local storage for data-intensive enterprise workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    The Microsoft Azure E96pds_v6 is an ARM-based virtual machine from the Epdsv6 family, featuring 96 dedicated physical cores on a 3.4 GHz Microsoft Neoverse-N2 processor. It is equipped with 672.0 GB of RAM (7.0 GB per core) and 5669 GB of local storage, running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. Benchmark data highlights top-tier multi-core CPU performance and exceptional memory bandwidth, with both read and write operations ranking in the top 10%. While single-core performance remains average, the server excels in multi-threaded tasks, database operations, and high-throughput Redis caching. The qualitative cost efficiency of its ARM architecture makes it a strong choice for resource-dense deployments. This instance is highly recommended for memory-intensive databases, large-scale web serving, and parallel data processing workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    5.52Score
    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) 17,061,297 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 9 50.00% 50.00% +200.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 104,494,694 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 9.06 20.00% 20.00% +55.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 3,448 2,411 1.43 10.00% 10.00% +3.64%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 509,277 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 4.74 10.00% 10.00% +16.80%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,885 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.798 10.00% 10.00% -2.23%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,689

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 23,825

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 56681
    Compression
    		 657254
    Encryption
    		 18139
    Extended Instructions
    		 85661
    Floating Point Maths
    		 507335
    Integer Maths
    		 603773
    Physics
    		 18268
    Prime Numbers
    		 632
    Single Threaded
    		 1885
    String Sorting
    		 477752

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 3448
    Database Operations
    		 37969
    Memory Latency
    		 52
    Memory Read Cached
    		 25608
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 19752
    Memory Write
    		 25739

    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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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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    E8pds_v6 864 GiB0
    E16pds_v6 16128 GiB0
    E32pds_v6 32256 GiB0
    E48pds_v6 48384 GiB0
    E64pds_v6 64512 GiB0

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