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F16 by Microsoft Azure

F16 is a F family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 262 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1042 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
262 GB Storage
Spare SCore
16365
(All-cores)
1064
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F16
Name
F16
API Reference
Standard_F16
Description
F family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
F
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-06-30T22:58:00.103082

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.146 USD/h 0.79 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.79 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.79 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1471 USD/h 0.796 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1476 USD/h 0.796 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1544 USD/h 0.796 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.156 USD/h 0.796 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.4897 USD/h 0.796 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1493 USD/h 0.808 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1508 USD/h 0.816 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.1508 USD/h 0.816 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.403 USD/h 0.83 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.1538 USD/h 0.832 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.1538 USD/h 0.832 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1615 USD/h 0.874 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1539 USD/h 0.875 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1617 USD/h 0.875 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1617 USD/h 0.875 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1617 USD/h 0.875 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.1623 USD/h 0.878 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2024 USD/h 0.905 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.14 USD/h 0.909 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.168 USD/h 0.909 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.168 USD/h 0.909 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.168 USD/h 0.909 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.168 USD/h 0.909 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.168 USD/h 0.909 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.168 USD/h 0.909 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.1685 USD/h 0.912 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1685 USD/h 0.912 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1712 USD/h 0.924 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1756 USD/h 0.95 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.1765 USD/h 0.955 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.1765 USD/h 0.955 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.177 USD/h 0.955 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.1785 USD/h 0.966 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1841 USD/h 0.996 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1848 USD/h 0.9999 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.1848 USD/h 1 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1863 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1863 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1042 USD/h 1.042 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.1926 USD/h 1.042 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1926 USD/h 1.042 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1926 USD/h 1.042 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.194 USD/h 1.05 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.197 USD/h 1.066 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.2022 USD/h 1.094 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.2057 USD/h 1.113 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.2122 USD/h 1.148 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.2134 USD/h 1.155 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.2184 USD/h 1.182 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.2192 USD/h 1.186 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.2402 USD/h 1.3 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.2404 USD/h 1.3006 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.2479 USD/h 1.337 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.2759 USD/h 1.493 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2673 v4
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
50 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
50 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, cpuid, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, rdseed, adx, smap, xsaveopt, md_clear
Ecpus
15.4
Scalability
96.25

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    Server Description

    A compute-optimized virtual machine featuring dedicated physical cores and balanced multi-threaded performance for resource-focused workloads.

    Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure F16 is an F-family virtual machine featuring 16 dedicated physical cores on an Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 processor running at 2.3 GHz with 32.0 GB of RAM and 262 GB of local storage. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this x86_64 server provides a compute-optimized 1:2 vCPU-to-RAM ratio. Benchmarks show weak single-core performance but average multi-core scaling, with a Passmark CPU score of 16171.74 and average software compilation speeds. Memory read bandwidth is average, while large-block write bandwidth is weak. Qualitatively, the F16 offers a cost-efficient option for dedicated compute resources where high memory density is unnecessary. It is suitable for multi-threaded workloads, including static web serving, database operations, and software compilation.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 919

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 7,319

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		16172
    Compression
    		252740
    Encryption
    		4591
    Extended Instructions
    		15562
    Floating Point Maths
    		41976
    Integer Maths
    		48798
    Physics
    		1698
    Prime Numbers
    		133
    Single Threaded
    		1800
    String Sorting
    		33931

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		1855
    Database Operations
    		8544
    Memory Latency
    		70
    Memory Read Cached
    		20041
    Memory Read Uncached
    		7217
    Memory Write
    		5938

    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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    F2 24 GiB0
    F4 48 GiB0
    F8 816 GiB0

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