F16as_v6 by Microsoft Azure

F16as_v6 is a Fasv6 family [AMD processor] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1305 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
49,271
(All-cores)
3,080
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F16as_v6
Name
F16as_v6
API Reference
Standard_F16as_v6
Description
Fasv6 family [AMD processor] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs
Family
Fasv6
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-06T04:49:17.997017

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1305 USD/h 0.706 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.706 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.706 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.202 USD/h 1.093 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.202 USD/h 1.093 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.202 USD/h 1.093 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.2021 USD/h 1.093 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2304 USD/h 1.093 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.212 USD/h 1.147 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.216 USD/h 1.168 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.2221 USD/h 1.202 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.2253 USD/h 1.219 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.2253 USD/h 1.219 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2253 USD/h 1.219 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2281 USD/h 1.235 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.2282 USD/h 1.235 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.2282 USD/h 1.235 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.2321 USD/h 1.256 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.2347 USD/h 1.27 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.2371 USD/h 1.283 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.2371 USD/h 1.283 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.2371 USD/h 1.283 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.2371 USD/h 1.283 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2419 USD/h 1.309 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.2419 USD/h 1.309 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.2439 USD/h 1.32 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.2439 USD/h 1.32 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.2439 USD/h 1.32 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.2443 USD/h 1.322 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.2443 USD/h 1.322 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.2443 USD/h 1.322 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.2443 USD/h 1.322 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.2489 USD/h 1.347 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.2489 USD/h 1.347 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.2489 USD/h 1.347 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1373 USD/h 1.373 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.2537 USD/h 1.373 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.2537 USD/h 1.373 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.2537 USD/h 1.373 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.2791 USD/h 1.373 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.2582 USD/h 1.397 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.2628 USD/h 1.422 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.2628 USD/h 1.422 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.2628 USD/h 1.422 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.27 USD/h 1.461 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.2794 USD/h 1.512 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.2827 USD/h 1.53 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2842 USD/h 1.538 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.2887 USD/h 1.562 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.2888 USD/h 1.563 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.2888 USD/h 1.563 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.3075 USD/h 1.664 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.3169 USD/h 1.715 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.3234 USD/h 1.75 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.3241 USD/h 1.754 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.3498 USD/h 1.893 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.3755 USD/h 2.032 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.3755 USD/h 2.032 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.4202 USD/h 2.274 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
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A balanced, dedicated AMD EPYC server offering strong single-core performance and 64 GB of RAM for general-purpose workloads.

      General PurposeCompute Optimized

      The Microsoft Azure F16as_v6 is a general-purpose server from the Fasv6 family, powered by a dedicated 3.7 GHz AMD EPYC 9V74 processor with 16 physical cores and 16 vCPUs. It features 64.0 GB of RAM, providing a balanced 4.0 GB per core, but does not include local storage or integrated GPUs. Operating under the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, the instance supports advanced instruction sets such as AVX-512 and AES cryptography. Benchmark data highlights strong single-core performance, excellent small-model LLM text generation speeds, and solid multi-core capabilities. The server is optimized for workloads such as web serving, software compilation, image processing, and database operations, offering a balanced resource profile without the added cost of bundled local storage.

      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) 2,288,510 ops/sec 1,916,704 ops/sec 1.2 50.00% 50.00% +9.50%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 20,121,462 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 1.7 20.00% 20.00% +11.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,757 2,417 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 97,807 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.89 10.00% 10.00% -1.20%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,905 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,086

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 16,516

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 36798
      Compression
      		 421808
      Encryption
      		 21015
      Extended Instructions
      		 39791
      Floating Point Maths
      		 85430
      Integer Maths
      		 96806
      Physics
      		 4289
      Prime Numbers
      		 315
      Single Threaded
      		 2905
      String Sorting
      		 60780

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2757
      Database Operations
      		 14923
      Memory Latency
      		 76
      Memory Read Cached
      		 27902
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 27587
      Memory Write
      		 26825

      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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