E96s_v7 by Microsoft Azure

E96s_v7 is a Esv7 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 96 vCPUs, 768 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.5068 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
768 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
102,251
(All-cores)
2,248
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E96s_v7
Name
E96s_v7
API Reference
Standard_E96s_v7
Description
Esv7 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs
Family
Esv7
Hw Virt
-
Average Time To Start
14
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-03T20:30:52.981845

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central US (US) / centralus
1.5068 USD/h 8.002 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
1.5405 USD/h 8.336 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
1.5405 USD/h 8.336 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
1.5405 USD/h 8.336 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
1.5405 USD/h 8.336 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
1.5713 USD/h 8.336 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
1.5675 USD/h 8.482 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
1.639 USD/h 8.869 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
1.7007 USD/h 9.203 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
1.7098 USD/h 9.252 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
1.7745 USD/h 9.602 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
1.7781 USD/h 9.622 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
1.7868 USD/h 9.669 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
1.8484 USD/h 10.002 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
1.8484 USD/h 10.002 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
1.8486 USD/h 10.003 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
1.8486 USD/h 10.003 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
1.8583 USD/h 10.056 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
1.8979 USD/h 10.27 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
1.8979 USD/h 10.27 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
1.9225 USD/h 10.403 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
2.0088 USD/h 10.87 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
2.0334 USD/h 11.003 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
2.4647 USD/h 13.337 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
96
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
48
CPU Speed
4.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
6973P-C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
3 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
96 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
480 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
480 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, tsc_known_freq, 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
45.5
Scalability
47.4

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
768 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
768 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

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A memory-optimized virtual machine featuring ninety-six high-frequency Intel Xeon vCPUs and seven hundred sixty-eight gigabytes of RAM for enterprise workloads.

      Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

      Microsoft Azure E96s_v7 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the Esv7 family, powered by an Intel Xeon 6973P-C processor with 96 dedicated vCPUs and 48 physical cores running at 4.2 GHz. It features 768.0 GB of RAM, providing an 8.0 GB per core memory allocation. While it lacks local storage and GPUs, it is Premium Storage capable. Benchmarks reveal top-tier performance, including a PassMark CPU score of 109,110.34, a multi-threaded bzip3 decompression speed of 604.05 GB/sec, and 160.72 million Redis SET operations per second. The architecture supports AVX-512 and AMX instructions, enabling efficient CPU-based LLM prompt processing. This server is optimized for large-scale in-memory databases, caching layers, and enterprise workloads requiring substantial memory capacity and strong multi-core compute capabilities.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      5.9Score
      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) 18,723,033 ops/sec 1,922,940 ops/sec 10 50.00% 50.00% +220.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 107,199,446 ops/sec 11,785,922 ops/sec 9.2 20.00% 20.00% +56.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,561 2,415 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 428,507 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 3.9 10.00% 10.00% +15.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,530 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.5 10.00% 10.00% +4.10%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 109,110
      Compression
      		 1,876,320
      Encryption
      		 107,456
      Extended Instructions
      		 127,838
      Floating Point Maths
      		 354,386
      Integer Maths
      		 486,729
      Physics
      		 14,151
      Prime Numbers
      		 933
      Single Threaded
      		 3,530
      String Sorting
      		 243,748

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,561
      Database Operations
      		 33,096
      Memory Latency
      		 75
      Memory Read Cached
      		 29,908
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 19,047
      Memory Write
      		 8,382

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 160.74 33.96 0.21×
      bitops
      		 175,171 9,037,418 51.59×
      branch
      		 164,077 11,849,855 72.22×
      funccall
      		 909.07 52,517 57.77×
      funcret
      		 14,819 1,025,071 69.17×
      hash
      		 198,789 12,904,622 64.92×
      intmath
      		 76,061 4,092,945 53.81×
      nop
      		 306,994 14,630,619 47.66×
      prime
      		 554,004 32,757,714 59.13×
      rotate
      		 115,227 8,674,545 75.28×
      str
      		 1,120,353 70,855,627 63.24×
      wcs
      		 775,698 41,515,138 53.52×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,959 219,596 55.46×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 957.93 53,522 55.87×
      zlib
      		 83.36 5,095 61.12×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 25,825 190,988 7.40×
      clone
      		 1,374 36,906 26.86×
      context
      		 6,197 456,532 73.67×
      cpu-sched
      		 52.8 6,129 116.08×
      eventfd
      		 37,541 2,450,044 65.26×
      fault
      		 27,703 259,913 9.38×
      fork
      		 5,673 60,058 10.59×
      getrandom
      		 67,875 4,474,540 65.92×
      hrtimers
      		 438,831 9,344,162 21.29×
      mprotect
      		 806,094 19,714,056 24.46×
      mtx
      		 32,424,809 2,686,654,994 82.86×
      munmap
      		 4,395 63,870 14.53×
      null
      		 1,016,888 72,776,056 71.57×
      pipe
      		 717,729 72,727,063 101.33×
      priv-instr
      		 1,015,940 8,455,157 8.32×
      resched
      		 13,451,853 10,436,613 0.78×
      switch
      		 57,317 19,376,234 338.05×
      timermix
      		 232,958 14,416,269 61.88×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 5,491 136,274 24.82×
      tsc
      		 1,066,503 72,298,850 67.79×
      usersyscall
      		 858,634 8,645,755 10.07×
      vdso
      		 124,207,510 8,525,248,004 68.64×
      vfork
      		 23,547 191,690 8.14×
      x86syscall
      		 12,097,746 925,878,052 76.53×
      yield
      		 147,297,687 149,995,130 1.02×
      zero
      		 6,759,098 510,231,998 75.49×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 19,304 1,091,945 56.57×
      expmath
      		 4,084 267,222 65.43×
      fma
      		 1,406,355 84,126,190 59.82×
      fp
      		 217.55 15,848 72.85×
      fractal
      		 8.2 491.76 59.97×
      hyperbolic
      		 4,734 308,543 65.18×
      logmath
      		 6,065 425,339 70.13×
      matrix
      		 6,727 306,940 45.63×
      matrix-3d
      		 638.35 13,107 20.53×
      monte-carlo
      		 345.43 25,412 73.57×
      mpfr
      		 2,024 113,489 56.08×
      powmath
      		 2,274 155,460 68.38×
      trig
      		 3,195 184,303 57.68×
      veccmp
      		 28,823 1,453,722 50.44×
      vecfp
      		 1,720 99,001 57.55×
      vecmath
      		 4,552 282,949 62.16×
      vecshuf
      		 947.78 47,922 50.56×
      vecwide
      		 36,450 1,845,069 50.62×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 11.4 633.38 55.56×
      bsearch
      		 364.19 20,363 55.91×
      bubblesort
      		 1.4 70.4 50.29×
      fibsearch
      		 346.2 18,553 53.59×
      heapsort
      		 11.4 694.78 60.95×
      hsearch
      		 9,838 528,949 53.77×
      insertionsort
      		 14.8 653 44.12×
      malloc
      		 2,859,237 88,251,483 30.87×
      mcontend
      		 71.5 14,762 206.46×
      mergesort
      		 36 2,272 63.10×
      qsort
      		 25.6 1,572 61.41×
      skiplist
      		 7,445 510,861 68.62×
      tree
      		 1.8 77.99 43.33×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 271,932 11,386,321 41.87×
      cachehammer
      		 161,404 7,711,669 47.78×
      cacheline
      		 34.78 2,953 84.90×
      l1cache
      		 854.47 18,314 21.43×
      memcpy
      		 790.05 36,234 45.86×
      memrate
      		 0.15 11.43 76.20×
      memthrash
      		 168.23 1,646 9.79×
      ptr-chase
      		 30,168,774 667,667,343 22.13×
      spinmem
      		 337.17 712 2.11×
      stream
      		 2.22 2,692 1212.78×
      vm
      		 193,585 303,906 1.57×

      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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