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
57,892
(All-cores)
3,623
(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
2026-10-21T17:52:51.029717

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
0.2019 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
East US (US) / eastus
0.212 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
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

      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

      1.3Score
      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) 2,110,346 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 1.1 50.00% 50.00% +4.90%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 20,700,017 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 1.8 20.00% 20.00% +12.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,751 2,416 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 159,076 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 1.5 10.00% 10.00% +4.10%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,669 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.5 10.00% 10.00% +4.10%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 43,765
      Compression
      		 476,956
      Encryption
      		 24,259
      Extended Instructions
      		 42,168
      Floating Point Maths
      		 117,596
      Integer Maths
      		 119,007
      Physics
      		 5,509
      Prime Numbers
      		 395
      Single Threaded
      		 3,669
      String Sorting
      		 65,240

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,751
      Database Operations
      		 19,093
      Memory Latency
      		 83
      Memory Read Cached
      		 33,165
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 28,901
      Memory Write
      		 30,439

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 393.94 366.71 0.93×
      bitops
      		 215,814 3,387,377 15.70×
      branch
      		 177,623 2,712,832 15.27×
      funccall
      		 876.68 13,108 14.95×
      funcret
      		 25,675 397,943 15.50×
      hash
      		 209,566 3,241,650 15.47×
      intmath
      		 77,478 1,207,745 15.59×
      nop
      		 415,216 6,600,410 15.90×
      prime
      		 601,073 8,838,381 14.70×
      rotate
      		 137,799 2,184,738 15.85×
      str
      		 1,500,839 22,057,101 14.70×
      wcs
      		 1,024,362 14,417,753 14.07×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 5,219 77,770 14.90×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 1,100 15,539 14.13×
      zlib
      		 61.29 1,133 18.49×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 25,190 262,586 10.42×
      clone
      		 1,192 10,307 8.64×
      context
      		 5,349 85,417 15.97×
      cpu-sched
      		 60.45 1,012 16.74×
      eventfd
      		 46,861 1,469,825 31.37×
      fault
      		 13,377 127,757 9.55×
      fork
      		 5,110 43,563 8.53×
      getrandom
      		 67,789 1,041,454 15.36×
      hrtimers
      		 1,520,717 2,433,978 1.60×
      mprotect
      		 928,984 4,576,112 4.93×
      mtx
      		 47,414,685 1,128,947,126 23.81×
      munmap
      		 3,754 38,814 10.34×
      null
      		 591,147 9,173,409 15.52×
      pipe
      		 2,655,798 11,214,004 4.22×
      priv-instr
      		 570,254 8,397,261 14.73×
      resched
      		 5,138,053 1,917,961 0.37×
      switch
      		 86,005 3,703,049 43.06×
      timermix
      		 212,503 3,264,300 15.36×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 16,386 97,932 5.98×
      tsc
      		 852,225 13,602,553 15.96×
      usersyscall
      		 458,127 6,838,520 14.93×
      vdso
      		 105,810,500 1,676,291,098 15.84×
      vfork
      		 26,443 235,165 8.89×
      x86syscall
      		 8,073,208 124,497,442 15.42×
      yield
      		 13,336,166 11,601,647 0.87×
      zero
      		 4,291,407 64,608,539 15.06×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 16,928 255,409 15.09×
      expmath
      		 3,886 59,465 15.30×
      fma
      		 1,520,665 21,905,241 14.41×
      fp
      		 196.8 3,038 15.43×
      fractal
      		 8.8 131.26 14.92×
      hyperbolic
      		 5,240 80,693 15.40×
      logmath
      		 5,513 84,172 15.27×
      matrix
      		 9,042 121,822 13.47×
      matrix-3d
      		 104.09 1,444 13.87×
      monte-carlo
      		 279.79 4,249 15.19×
      mpfr
      		 2,337 34,509 14.77×
      powmath
      		 1,793 27,748 15.47×
      trig
      		 2,370 36,083 15.23×
      veccmp
      		 28,980 434,219 14.98×
      vecfp
      		 2,238 34,594 15.46×
      vecmath
      		 4,590 71,527 15.58×
      vecshuf
      		 961.52 14,346 14.92×
      vecwide
      		 38,915 551,623 14.17×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 12.2 183.79 15.06×
      bsearch
      		 353.66 5,204 14.71×
      bubblesort
      		 1 16.2 16.20×
      fibsearch
      		 416.27 6,400 15.38×
      heapsort
      		 13.8 203.39 14.74×
      hsearch
      		 13,103 187,596 14.32×
      insertionsort
      		 7.8 194 24.87×
      malloc
      		 5,057,059 55,191,434 10.91×
      mcontend
      		 169.68 2,794 16.46×
      mergesort
      		 37.6 558.19 14.85×
      qsort
      		 26 381.19 14.66×
      skiplist
      		 8,067 121,187 15.02×
      tree
      		 2.6 26 10.00×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 1,064,805 1,725,378 1.62×
      cachehammer
      		 275,930 4,080,103 14.79×
      cacheline
      		 68.18 1,199 17.59×
      l1cache
      		 1,296 20,138 15.54×
      memcpy
      		 781.59 11,221 14.36×
      memrate
      		 4.74 12.56 2.65×
      memthrash
      		 183.73 945.41 5.15×
      ptr-chase
      		 83,890,716 158,369,747 1.89×
      spinmem
      		 330.18 1,191 3.61×
      stream
      		 153.53 8,100 52.76×
      vm
      		 241,310 293,852 1.22×

      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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