F16als_v7 by Microsoft Azure

F16als_v7 is a Falsv7 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
57,920
(All-cores)
3,621
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F16als_v7
Name
F16als_v7
API Reference
Standard_F16als_v7
Description
Falsv7 family [AMD processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs
Family
Falsv7
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
14.33
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-22T05:56:35.229701

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1157 USD/h 0.626 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.626 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1788 USD/h 0.968 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 2 (US) / westus2
0.1789 USD/h 0.968 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1789 USD/h 0.968 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1878 USD/h 0.968 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1913 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
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1996 USD/h 1.08 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
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.2158 USD/h 1.168 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
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
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.2203 USD/h 1.192 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
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
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.2558 USD/h 1.384 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.2558 USD/h 1.384 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.2868 USD/h 1.552 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
4.5 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
9V45
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
768 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, xtopology, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, 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, avx_vnni, 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, avx512_vp2intersect
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 virtual machine featuring high-frequency AMD EPYC processors and dedicated cores for single-thread intensive workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Microsoft Azure F16als_v7 is an x86_64 compute-optimized virtual machine from the Falsv7 family, powered by a 4.5 GHz AMD EPYC 9V45 processor. It features 16 dedicated physical cores (16 vCPUs) and 32.0 GB of RAM, yielding a low memory-to-core ratio of 2.0 GB. The instance does not include local storage or GPUs but is Premium Storage capable. Benchmarks indicate top-tier single-core performance, with stress-ng, Geekbench single-core, and single-threaded compression tests ranking in the top 10%. Conversely, multi-core performance and memory bandwidth fall into the average tier. Lacking local storage and high memory density, this server presents a tradeoff for memory-heavy applications. It is best suited for compute-intensive, low-memory workloads such as image processing, text processing, and lightweight machine learning inference.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.3Score
      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) 2,121,974 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 1.1 50.00% 50.00% +4.90%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 20,594,429 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 1.8 20.00% 20.00% +12.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,700 2,416 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 155,529 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 1.5 10.00% 10.00% +4.10%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,670 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.5 10.00% 10.00% +4.10%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,853

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 20,959

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 44,169
      Compression
      		 490,055
      Encryption
      		 24,165
      Extended Instructions
      		 44,564
      Floating Point Maths
      		 116,051
      Integer Maths
      		 117,516
      Physics
      		 5,661
      Prime Numbers
      		 408
      Single Threaded
      		 3,670
      String Sorting
      		 66,188

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,700
      Database Operations
      		 19,660
      Memory Latency
      		 83
      Memory Read Cached
      		 32,535
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 28,312
      Memory Write
      		 30,022

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 352.92 388.07 1.10×
      bitops
      		 221,737 3,408,424 15.37×
      branch
      		 177,111 2,721,736 15.37×
      funccall
      		 855.96 13,369 15.62×
      funcret
      		 25,700 393,937 15.33×
      hash
      		 208,040 3,248,826 15.62×
      intmath
      		 77,392 1,209,627 15.63×
      nop
      		 413,460 6,595,219 15.95×
      prime
      		 592,613 9,141,531 15.43×
      rotate
      		 137,204 2,152,053 15.69×
      str
      		 1,543,787 23,372,228 15.14×
      wcs
      		 1,031,554 14,452,111 14.01×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 5,212 78,288 15.02×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 1,087 16,274 14.97×
      zlib
      		 64.93 1,161 17.87×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 25,497 248,210 9.73×
      clone
      		 1,180 8,402 7.12×
      context
      		 5,415 85,267 15.75×
      cpu-sched
      		 62.48 1,034 16.54×
      eventfd
      		 45,444 1,472,597 32.40×
      fault
      		 12,516 128,210 10.24×
      fork
      		 5,063 43,200 8.53×
      getrandom
      		 71,757 1,111,516 15.49×
      hrtimers
      		 164,801 2,048,988 12.43×
      mprotect
      		 882,134 4,597,444 5.21×
      mtx
      		 41,023,385 1,151,203,929 28.06×
      munmap
      		 3,760 36,014 9.58×
      null
      		 583,882 9,098,564 15.58×
      pipe
      		 2,572,132 11,021,549 4.28×
      priv-instr
      		 562,066 8,250,460 14.68×
      resched
      		 5,180,006 1,966,677 0.38×
      switch
      		 247,511 3,725,277 15.05×
      timermix
      		 211,251 3,313,253 15.68×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 15,645 92,081 5.89×
      tsc
      		 836,907 13,397,777 16.01×
      usersyscall
      		 458,877 6,800,533 14.82×
      vdso
      		 105,717,426 1,655,962,167 15.66×
      vfork
      		 25,920 224,848 8.67×
      x86syscall
      		 7,894,105 122,737,995 15.55×
      yield
      		 12,988,092 12,385,742 0.95×
      zero
      		 4,223,851 65,573,517 15.52×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 16,639 257,979 15.50×
      expmath
      		 3,837 60,068 15.65×
      fma
      		 1,496,245 22,687,229 15.16×
      fp
      		 189.6 3,105 16.38×
      fractal
      		 8.6 132.42 15.40×
      hyperbolic
      		 5,223 80,998 15.51×
      logmath
      		 5,445 84,619 15.54×
      matrix
      		 8,550 128,265 15.00×
      matrix-3d
      		 102.5 1,455 14.20×
      monte-carlo
      		 280.33 4,271 15.23×
      mpfr
      		 2,314 35,432 15.31×
      powmath
      		 1,762 27,614 15.68×
      trig
      		 2,348 36,159 15.40×
      veccmp
      		 29,143 444,990 15.27×
      vecfp
      		 2,304 35,280 15.31×
      vecmath
      		 4,568 70,958 15.53×
      vecshuf
      		 956.89 14,700 15.36×
      vecwide
      		 38,638 575,583 14.90×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 12.6 186.99 14.84×
      bsearch
      		 355.11 5,398 15.20×
      bubblesort
      		 1.2 16 13.33×
      fibsearch
      		 415.85 6,418 15.43×
      heapsort
      		 13.8 209.19 15.16×
      hsearch
      		 13,037 192,055 14.73×
      insertionsort
      		 11.8 185 15.68×
      malloc
      		 4,891,469 45,694,277 9.34×
      mcontend
      		 158.52 2,735 17.26×
      mergesort
      		 37.4 572.38 15.30×
      qsort
      		 24.8 389.99 15.73×
      skiplist
      		 8,175 123,957 15.16×
      tree
      		 2.6 26.8 10.31×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 1,034,169 1,758,899 1.70×
      cachehammer
      		 264,568 4,040,261 15.27×
      cacheline
      		 68.08 1,105 16.24×
      l1cache
      		 1,318 20,236 15.35×
      memcpy
      		 766.51 11,539 15.05×
      memrate
      		 4.54 17.52 3.86×
      memthrash
      		 130.45 964.38 7.39×
      ptr-chase
      		 88,849,529 232,050,804 2.61×
      spinmem
      		 315.98 1,069 3.38×
      stream
      		 141.12 11,164 79.11×
      vm
      		 239,204 293,823 1.23×

      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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