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F16as_v7 by Microsoft Azure

F16as_v7 is a Fasv7 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
57892
(All-cores)
3623
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F16as_v7
Name
F16as_v7
API Reference
Standard_F16as_v7
Description
Fasv7 family [AMD processor] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs
Family
Fasv7
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
27
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-23T15:00:07.864758

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1305 USD/h 0.706 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.706 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1998 USD/h 1.093 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.202 USD/h 1.093 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 2 (US) / westus2
0.202 USD/h 1.093 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.202 USD/h 1.093 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.2158 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
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2253 USD/h 1.219 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
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.2439 USD/h 1.32 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
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
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.2489 USD/h 1.347 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
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
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.2888 USD/h 1.563 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.2888 USD/h 1.563 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.3241 USD/h 1.754 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
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
    • 0 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An AMD-powered server featuring high single-core clock speeds and balanced memory allocation for single-threaded and general-purpose workloads.

    General PurposeCompute Optimized

    Microsoft Azure F16as_v7 is an x86_64 server in the Fasv7 family, featuring 16 dedicated AMD EPYC 9V45 physical cores running at 4.5 GHz and 64.0 GB of RAM. Lacking local storage and GPU accelerators, this virtualized instance relies on Premium Storage compatibility. Benchmarks reveal top-tier single-core performance, with stress-ng single-core, single-threaded gzip compression, and bzip3 decompression scoring in the top 10%. Multi-core performance, memory bandwidth, and database operations align with average tiers. The server is suited for workloads requiring high single-thread execution speeds, such as lightweight language model inference, web serving, and general-purpose compute tasks that do not require local NVMe storage.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.31Score
    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) 2,110,346 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 1.11 50.00% 50.00% +5.36%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 20,700,017 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 1.79 20.00% 20.00% +12.30%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,751 2,411 1.14 10.00% 10.00% +1.32%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 159,076 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 1.48 10.00% 10.00% +4.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,669 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.55 10.00% 10.00% +4.48%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 43765
    Compression
    		 476956
    Encryption
    		 24259
    Extended Instructions
    		 42168
    Floating Point Maths
    		 117596
    Integer Maths
    		 119007
    Physics
    		 5509
    Prime Numbers
    		 395
    Single Threaded
    		 3669
    String Sorting
    		 65240

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2751
    Database Operations
    		 19093
    Memory Latency
    		 83
    Memory Read Cached
    		 33165
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 28901
    Memory Write
    		 30439

    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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    F2as_v7 28 GiB0
    F4as_v7 416 GiB0
    F8as_v7 832 GiB0
    F32as_v7 32128 GiB0
    F48as_v7 48192 GiB0
    F64as_v7 64256 GiB0

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