F16ams_v6 by Microsoft Azure

F16ams_v6 is a Famsv6 family [AMD processor] [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0366 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
49,036
(All-cores)
3,079
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F16ams_v6
Name
F16ams_v6
API Reference
Standard_F16ams_v6
Description
Famsv6 family [AMD processor] [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs
Family
Famsv6
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
15.68
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-21T13:53:20.169625

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0366 USD/h 0.18 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1709 USD/h 0.925 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.925 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.925 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2646 USD/h 1.432 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.2646 USD/h 1.432 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.2646 USD/h 1.432 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.2648 USD/h 1.432 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.3019 USD/h 1.432 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.2779 USD/h 1.504 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.2831 USD/h 1.531 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.2909 USD/h 1.574 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.2953 USD/h 1.598 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.2953 USD/h 1.598 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2953 USD/h 1.598 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2988 USD/h 1.618 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.299 USD/h 1.618 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.299 USD/h 1.618 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.3042 USD/h 1.646 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.3075 USD/h 1.664 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.3108 USD/h 1.682 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.3108 USD/h 1.682 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.3108 USD/h 1.682 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.3108 USD/h 1.682 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.3167 USD/h 1.714 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.3167 USD/h 1.714 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.3193 USD/h 1.728 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.3193 USD/h 1.728 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.3193 USD/h 1.728 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.3193 USD/h 1.728 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.3199 USD/h 1.731 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.3199 USD/h 1.731 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.3199 USD/h 1.731 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.3262 USD/h 1.765 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.3262 USD/h 1.765 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.3262 USD/h 1.765 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1797 USD/h 1.797 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.3321 USD/h 1.797 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.3321 USD/h 1.797 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.3321 USD/h 1.797 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.3382 USD/h 1.83 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.3445 USD/h 1.864 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.3445 USD/h 1.864 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.3445 USD/h 1.864 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.3537 USD/h 1.914 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.3661 USD/h 1.981 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.3705 USD/h 2.005 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.3722 USD/h 2.014 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.3781 USD/h 2.046 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.3781 USD/h 2.046 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.3781 USD/h 2.046 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.403 USD/h 2.181 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.4151 USD/h 2.246 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.4237 USD/h 2.293 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.4243 USD/h 2.296 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.4583 USD/h 2.48 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.4919 USD/h 2.662 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.4919 USD/h 2.662 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.5505 USD/h 2.979 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, xtopology, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, 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
15.9
Scalability
99.38

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
128 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
128 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-intensive virtual machine featuring dedicated AMD EPYC processors and high memory-to-core density for memory-bound workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Microsoft Azure F16ams_v6 is a memory-intensive virtual machine from the Famsv6 family, powered by a 16-core AMD EPYC 9V74 processor running at 3.7 GHz on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It features 16 dedicated vCPUs and 128.0 GB of RAM, establishing an 8.0 GB per core memory-to-vCPU ratio. The instance lacks local storage and GPUs but is premium storage capable. Performance benchmarks highlight top-tier capabilities in small-model LLM text generation and strong results in memory bandwidth and single-core processing, while multi-core CPU and database operations remain average. This configuration represents a cost-efficient option for memory-optimized workloads that rely on external storage. It is highly suited for memory-cached applications, database hosting, and small-scale machine learning inference.

      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) 2,164,559 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 1.2 50.00% 50.00% +9.50%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 19,229,107 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 1.6 20.00% 20.00% +9.90%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,778 2,416 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 96,987 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,902 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 36,744
      Compression
      		 421,063
      Encryption
      		 20,965
      Extended Instructions
      		 39,722
      Floating Point Maths
      		 85,287
      Integer Maths
      		 96,733
      Physics
      		 4,317
      Prime Numbers
      		 309
      Single Threaded
      		 2,902
      String Sorting
      		 60,834

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,778
      Database Operations
      		 15,115
      Memory Latency
      		 76
      Memory Read Cached
      		 27,874
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 27,565
      Memory Write
      		 26,864

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 442.23 344.03 0.78×
      bitops
      		 160,612 2,541,630 15.82×
      branch
      		 212,761 3,382,000 15.90×
      funccall
      		 618.83 9,823 15.87×
      funcret
      		 20,974 339,697 16.20×
      hash
      		 163,574 2,613,366 15.98×
      intmath
      		 66,879 1,065,435 15.93×
      nop
      		 628,615 10,021,315 15.94×
      prime
      		 478,020 7,628,653 15.96×
      rotate
      		 88,365 1,410,019 15.96×
      str
      		 1,006,246 16,910,257 16.81×
      wcs
      		 702,061 11,359,672 16.18×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,738 59,048 15.80×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 861.39 13,395 15.55×
      zlib
      		 62.59 958.72 15.32×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 23,404 226,046 9.66×
      clone
      		 1,134 9,551 8.42×
      context
      		 3,048 48,554 15.93×
      cpu-sched
      		 60.51 1,017 16.80×
      eventfd
      		 41,545 1,322,759 31.84×
      fault
      		 10,834 107,838 9.95×
      fork
      		 4,253 37,717 8.87×
      getrandom
      		 51,583 822,298 15.94×
      hrtimers
      		 218,679 2,244,370 10.26×
      mprotect
      		 822,295 4,018,739 4.89×
      mtx
      		 37,403,284 2,128,299,944 56.90×
      munmap
      		 3,143 31,647 10.07×
      null
      		 351,397 5,606,281 15.95×
      pipe
      		 1,272,817 9,788,729 7.69×
      priv-instr
      		 449,983 6,791,481 15.09×
      resched
      		 4,881,932 1,869,893 0.38×
      switch
      		 149,557 3,168,989 21.19×
      timermix
      		 193,118 3,151,270 16.32×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 11,828 87,092 7.36×
      tsc
      		 785,717 12,503,127 15.91×
      usersyscall
      		 333,556 5,107,907 15.31×
      vdso
      		 94,522,626 1,505,536,723 15.93×
      vfork
      		 24,145 213,053 8.82×
      x86syscall
      		 4,177,353 66,638,192 15.95×
      yield
      		 12,568,835 14,522,703 1.16×
      zero
      		 2,780,504 44,105,216 15.86×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 16,453 261,494 15.89×
      expmath
      		 3,061 48,568 15.87×
      fma
      		 920,713 14,594,133 15.85×
      fp
      		 251.95 4,019 15.95×
      fractal
      		 7.4 116.7 15.77×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,836 60,841 15.86×
      logmath
      		 4,561 72,448 15.88×
      matrix
      		 4,938 78,353 15.87×
      matrix-3d
      		 157.57 2,137 13.56×
      monte-carlo
      		 182.37 2,916 15.99×
      mpfr
      		 1,703 26,745 15.70×
      powmath
      		 1,364 21,623 15.85×
      trig
      		 1,871 29,680 15.86×
      veccmp
      		 19,047 302,569 15.89×
      vecfp
      		 1,814 28,833 15.89×
      vecmath
      		 4,025 64,114 15.93×
      vecshuf
      		 638.76 10,181 15.94×
      vecwide
      		 28,606 455,904 15.94×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 10.4 166.4 16.00×
      bsearch
      		 305.8 4,888 15.98×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 13.2 16.50×
      fibsearch
      		 380.31 6,054 15.92×
      heapsort
      		 10.6 170.6 16.09×
      hsearch
      		 11,313 182,250 16.11×
      insertionsort
      		 13.2 207.8 15.74×
      malloc
      		 3,822,029 52,719,983 13.79×
      mcontend
      		 109.26 2,824 25.84×
      mergesort
      		 33.6 535.39 15.93×
      qsort
      		 21.8 348.99 16.01×
      skiplist
      		 7,096 112,577 15.87×
      tree
      		 2.2 23 10.45×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 884,527 1,214,911 1.37×
      cachehammer
      		 284,307 4,049,710 14.24×
      cacheline
      		 67.96 1,016 14.94×
      l1cache
      		 256.54 4,108 16.01×
      memcpy
      		 448.47 7,108 15.85×
      memrate
      		 3.75 9.42 2.51×
      memthrash
      		 190.93 818.2 4.29×
      ptr-chase
      		 58,290,634 156,837,920 2.69×
      spinmem
      		 315.18 1,097 3.48×
      stream
      		 137.32 6,760 49.23×
      vm
      		 194,370 293,826 1.51×

      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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