F16als_v6 by Microsoft Azure

F16als_v6 is a Falsv6 family [AMD processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1157 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
49,270
(All-cores)
3,081
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F16als_v6
Name
F16als_v6
API Reference
Standard_F16als_v6
Description
Falsv6 family [AMD processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs
Family
Falsv6
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
12
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-28T17:05:31.497776

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1157 USD/h 0.626 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.626 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.626 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1789 USD/h 0.968 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1789 USD/h 0.968 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1789 USD/h 0.968 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.179 USD/h 0.968 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2041 USD/h 0.968 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.1878 USD/h 1.016 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1914 USD/h 1.035 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1966 USD/h 1.064 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1996 USD/h 1.08 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1996 USD/h 1.08 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1996 USD/h 1.08 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2019 USD/h 1.093 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.2022 USD/h 1.094 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.2022 USD/h 1.094 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.2055 USD/h 1.112 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.2079 USD/h 1.125 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.2099 USD/h 1.136 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.2099 USD/h 1.136 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.2099 USD/h 1.136 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.2099 USD/h 1.136 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.214 USD/h 1.158 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.214 USD/h 1.158 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.2158 USD/h 1.168 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.2158 USD/h 1.168 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.2158 USD/h 1.168 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.2162 USD/h 1.17 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.2162 USD/h 1.17 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.2162 USD/h 1.17 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.2162 USD/h 1.17 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.2203 USD/h 1.192 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.2203 USD/h 1.192 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.2203 USD/h 1.192 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1214 USD/h 1.214 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.2243 USD/h 1.214 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.2243 USD/h 1.214 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.2243 USD/h 1.214 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.2468 USD/h 1.214 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.2286 USD/h 1.237 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.2327 USD/h 1.259 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.2327 USD/h 1.259 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.2327 USD/h 1.259 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.2389 USD/h 1.293 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.2474 USD/h 1.339 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.2504 USD/h 1.355 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2517 USD/h 1.362 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.2558 USD/h 1.384 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.2558 USD/h 1.384 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.2558 USD/h 1.384 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.2724 USD/h 1.474 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.2805 USD/h 1.518 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.2864 USD/h 1.55 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.2868 USD/h 1.552 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.3095 USD/h 1.675 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.3326 USD/h 1.8 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.3326 USD/h 1.8 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.372 USD/h 2.013 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
3.7 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
9V74
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
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
64 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, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, svm, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, topoext, vmmcall, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, avx512_bf16, clzero, xsaveerptr, rdpru, arat, npt, nrip_save, tsc_scale, vmcb_clean, flushbyasid, decodeassists, pausefilter, pfthreshold, v_vmsave_vmload, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, rdpid, fsrm
Ecpus
16
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 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 compute-optimized instance featuring dedicated AMD EPYC cores and a low memory-to-CPU ratio for high-throughput processing workloads.

      Compute Optimized

      Microsoft Azure F16als_v6 is a compute-optimized virtual machine powered by an AMD EPYC 9V74 processor with 16 dedicated physical cores and 16 vCPUs running at 3.7 GHz. It features 32.0 GB of RAM, providing a low memory-to-core ratio of 2.0 GB per core, and lacks local storage or GPUs. Benchmarks show strong single-core and multi-core performance, placing in the top 25% for Geekbench and stress-ng single-core tests. It also achieves top-tier results in text generation for small language models. The primary tradeoff is the constrained memory capacity relative to compute power. This instance is highly efficient for compute-heavy workloads such as software compilation, image processing, text processing, and web serving.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.2Score
      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) 2,290,794 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.2 50.00% 50.00% +9.50%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 20,000,250 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1.7 20.00% 20.00% +11.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,648 2,416 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 97,780 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.89 10.00% 10.00% -1.20%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,907 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,097

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 16,815

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 36,828
      Compression
      		 422,156
      Encryption
      		 21,025
      Extended Instructions
      		 39,941
      Floating Point Maths
      		 85,431
      Integer Maths
      		 96,824
      Physics
      		 4,278
      Prime Numbers
      		 314
      Single Threaded
      		 2,907
      String Sorting
      		 60,952

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,648
      Database Operations
      		 15,018
      Memory Latency
      		 78
      Memory Read Cached
      		 27,885
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 27,563
      Memory Write
      		 26,861

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 370.43 347.92 0.94×
      bitops
      		 160,425 2,550,380 15.90×
      branch
      		 212,859 3,372,112 15.84×
      funccall
      		 618.83 9,815 15.86×
      funcret
      		 20,953 337,694 16.12×
      hash
      		 163,334 2,599,674 15.92×
      intmath
      		 67,240 1,065,086 15.84×
      nop
      		 628,772 9,994,466 15.90×
      prime
      		 484,322 7,712,254 15.92×
      rotate
      		 88,358 1,405,504 15.91×
      str
      		 1,084,148 17,373,687 16.03×
      wcs
      		 690,010 10,863,661 15.74×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,750 59,034 15.74×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 865.07 13,551 15.66×
      zlib
      		 66.66 1,023 15.34×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 23,252 223,923 9.63×
      clone
      		 1,127 8,145 7.23×
      context
      		 3,057 48,689 15.92×
      cpu-sched
      		 63.92 1,014 15.86×
      eventfd
      		 43,823 1,375,987 31.40×
      fault
      		 10,931 116,172 10.63×
      fork
      		 4,340 38,423 8.85×
      getrandom
      		 52,077 829,874 15.94×
      hrtimers
      		 813,905 1,821,027 2.24×
      mprotect
      		 800,553 4,028,710 5.03×
      mtx
      		 39,722,965 2,006,983,639 50.52×
      munmap
      		 3,236 31,922 9.87×
      null
      		 354,311 5,640,406 15.92×
      pipe
      		 1,267,087 9,441,169 7.45×
      priv-instr
      		 453,588 6,846,553 15.09×
      resched
      		 4,894,320 1,906,131 0.39×
      switch
      		 126,596 3,683,957 29.10×
      timermix
      		 200,410 3,130,395 15.62×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 11,781 85,494 7.26×
      tsc
      		 785,743 12,522,891 15.94×
      usersyscall
      		 334,909 5,129,074 15.31×
      vdso
      		 94,560,338 1,501,382,219 15.88×
      vfork
      		 24,634 214,107 8.69×
      x86syscall
      		 4,205,539 67,114,930 15.96×
      yield
      		 12,673,055 12,274,505 0.97×
      zero
      		 2,795,462 44,316,211 15.85×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 16,147 260,953 16.16×
      expmath
      		 2,323 36,812 15.85×
      fma
      		 919,825 14,599,184 15.87×
      fp
      		 252 4,012 15.92×
      fractal
      		 7.4 117.24 15.84×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,819 60,820 15.93×
      logmath
      		 4,561 72,665 15.93×
      matrix
      		 4,885 78,304 16.03×
      matrix-3d
      		 159.78 2,177 13.63×
      monte-carlo
      		 182.63 2,919 15.98×
      mpfr
      		 1,697 27,041 15.94×
      powmath
      		 1,212 19,449 16.04×
      trig
      		 1,875 29,877 15.94×
      veccmp
      		 19,010 302,896 15.93×
      vecfp
      		 1,813 28,913 15.95×
      vecmath
      		 4,034 63,854 15.83×
      vecshuf
      		 638.37 10,178 15.94×
      vecwide
      		 28,602 455,646 15.93×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 10.4 164.8 15.85×
      bsearch
      		 306.03 4,905 16.03×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 13.2 16.50×
      fibsearch
      		 380.79 6,047 15.88×
      heapsort
      		 10.6 172.19 16.24×
      hsearch
      		 11,236 182,984 16.29×
      insertionsort
      		 13 209.2 16.09×
      malloc
      		 3,822,077 41,803,212 10.94×
      mcontend
      		 106.44 2,668 25.06×
      mergesort
      		 34.4 539.59 15.69×
      qsort
      		 22 348.8 15.85×
      skiplist
      		 7,033 111,905 15.91×
      tree
      		 2.2 23.4 10.64×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 884,766 1,243,454 1.41×
      cachehammer
      		 282,776 4,041,981 14.29×
      cacheline
      		 57.92 1,004 17.33×
      l1cache
      		 252.61 4,052 16.04×
      memcpy
      		 448.65 7,126 15.88×
      memrate
      		 3.74 9.41 2.52×
      memthrash
      		 167.35 800.67 4.78×
      ptr-chase
      		 61,999,244 156,228,880 2.52×
      spinmem
      		 310.98 1,105 3.55×
      stream
      		 134.93 6,755 50.06×
      vm
      		 201,683 293,804 1.46×

      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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