F16s_v2 by Microsoft Azure

F16s_v2 is a FSv2 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 131 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0888 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
131 GB Storage
Spare SCore
14,872
(All-cores)
1,445
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F16s_v2
Name
F16s_v2
API Reference
Standard_F16s_v2
Description
FSv2 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
FSv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
22
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-26T00:13:04.186508

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1251 USD/h 0.677 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1251 USD/h 0.677 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1489 USD/h 0.677 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2692 USD/h 0.677 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1257 USD/h 0.68 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1257 USD/h 0.68 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.1257 USD/h 0.68 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.1261 USD/h 0.68 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.68 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.68 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.1305 USD/h 0.706 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.1305 USD/h 0.706 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1369 USD/h 0.741 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.2479 USD/h 0.741 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1375 USD/h 0.744 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.1382 USD/h 0.748 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1419 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.1419 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1419 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1708 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.1434 USD/h 0.776 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.1434 USD/h 0.776 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1434 USD/h 0.776 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1434 USD/h 0.776 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1434 USD/h 0.776 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1434 USD/h 0.776 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1439 USD/h 0.776 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1449 USD/h 0.784 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1487 USD/h 0.808 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1493 USD/h 0.808 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.1493 USD/h 0.808 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1495 USD/h 0.809 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1468 USD/h 0.816 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1508 USD/h 0.816 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1508 USD/h 0.816 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.1562 USD/h 0.845 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.1562 USD/h 0.845 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1567 USD/h 0.848 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1577 USD/h 0.8536 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.1578 USD/h 0.854 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1582 USD/h 0.856 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1597 USD/h 0.864 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0888 USD/h 0.888 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.1641 USD/h 0.888 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1641 USD/h 0.888 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1647 USD/h 0.891 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1684 USD/h 0.911 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.1724 USD/h 0.933 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1739 USD/h 0.938 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.1752 USD/h 0.948 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.1865 USD/h 1.009 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.1865 USD/h 1.009 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.1935 USD/h 1.047 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1937 USD/h 1.048 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.2052 USD/h 1.1103 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.2336 USD/h 1.264 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.2517 USD/h 1.362 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
2.6 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8272CL
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
36 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
36 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, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, cpuid, pni, pclmulqdq, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xsaves, vnmi, md_clear
Ecpus
10.3
Scalability
64.38

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
    131 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 131 GB ssd (temp disk)
    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 sixteen dedicated vCPUs and a low memory-to-core ratio for high-throughput processing tasks.

    Compute Optimized

    Microsoft Azure F16s_v2 is a compute-optimized virtual machine from the FSv2 family, featuring 16 vCPUs and 32.0 GB of RAM. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor running at 2.6 GHz, this x86_64 instance provides a dedicated CPU allocation with 8 physical cores and hyper-threading. It includes 131 GB of local storage and supports Premium Storage. Performance benchmarks indicate strong compute capabilities, with a stress-ng multi-core score of 14872.23, a Geekbench software compilation score of 12769.0, and a Redis SET throughput of 13.89 million operations per second. The 1:2 vCPU-to-RAM ratio makes this instance a cost-efficient choice for compute-intensive workloads that do not require high memory density. It is highly suitable for software compilation, web serving, batch processing, and small-scale model inference.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.78Score
    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) 1,351,101 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.74 50.00% 50.00% -14.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 8,579,529 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.72 20.00% 20.00% -6.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,426 2,416 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 86,533 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,089 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,179

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 7,454

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 15,952
    Compression
    		 219,599
    Encryption
    		 6,874
    Extended Instructions
    		 15,020
    Floating Point Maths
    		 26,760
    Integer Maths
    		 49,834
    Physics
    		 1,484
    Prime Numbers
    		 84
    Single Threaded
    		 2,089
    String Sorting
    		 25,664

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,426
    Database Operations
    		 5,444
    Memory Latency
    		 58
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24,230
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11,454
    Memory Write
    		 9,797

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 231.55 224.74 0.97×
    bitops
    		 114,217 1,033,959 9.05×
    branch
    		 157,691 1,870,462 11.86×
    funccall
    		 552 4,477 8.11×
    funcret
    		 11,611 129,093 11.12×
    hash
    		 128,100 1,437,651 11.22×
    intmath
    		 22,647 264,442 11.68×
    nop
    		 193,995 1,320,811 6.81×
    prime
    		 321,561 2,812,425 8.75×
    rotate
    		 98,949 1,047,964 10.59×
    str
    		 749,616 6,548,286 8.74×
    wcs
    		 495,367 4,090,887 8.26×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,503 18,997 7.59×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 584.23 5,369 9.19×
    zlib
    		 48.81 595.25 12.20×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 19,889 166,023 8.35×
    clone
    		 1,021 7,921 7.76×
    context
    		 1,966 20,788 10.58×
    cpu-sched
    		 65.69 1,034 15.74×
    eventfd
    		 36,146 369,629 10.23×
    fault
    		 9,761 77,986 7.99×
    fork
    		 3,932 27,902 7.10×
    getrandom
    		 45,594 427,110 9.37×
    hrtimers
    		 219,590 1,316,168 5.99×
    mprotect
    		 1,040,096 2,435,188 2.34×
    mtx
    		 8,894,532 327,621,958 36.83×
    munmap
    		 2,840 22,888 8.06×
    null
    		 210,746 2,046,302 9.71×
    pipe
    		 958,027 5,516,351 5.76×
    priv-instr
    		 462,282 4,541,383 9.82×
    resched
    		 2,788,630 679,625 0.24×
    switch
    		 60,618 2,659,370 43.87×
    timermix
    		 181,465 2,271,795 12.52×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 8,017 28,194 3.52×
    tsc
    		 1,008,333 10,908,754 10.82×
    usersyscall
    		 316,904 3,107,533 9.81×
    vdso
    		 75,584,262 827,154,052 10.94×
    vfork
    		 22,707 171,011 7.53×
    x86syscall
    		 2,384,247 23,038,020 9.66×
    yield
    		 7,759,945 8,173,684 1.05×
    zero
    		 1,587,804 14,952,646 9.42×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 16,649 159,933 9.61×
    expmath
    		 2,718 32,711 12.03×
    fma
    		 668,980 8,708,167 13.02×
    fp
    		 160.8 1,707 10.62×
    fractal
    		 5.4 61.61 11.41×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,875 35,064 12.20×
    logmath
    		 4,642 53,685 11.57×
    matrix
    		 3,174 38,543 12.14×
    matrix-3d
    		 704.55 2,843 4.04×
    monte-carlo
    		 107.59 1,175 10.92×
    mpfr
    		 1,235 10,391 8.41×
    powmath
    		 1,618 19,354 11.96×
    trig
    		 1,731 18,119 10.47×
    veccmp
    		 15,816 122,489 7.74×
    vecfp
    		 2,244 21,633 9.64×
    vecmath
    		 2,140 26,743 12.50×
    vecshuf
    		 933.52 7,835 8.39×
    vecwide
    		 55,975 516,560 9.23×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 7.4 67.2 9.08×
    bsearch
    		 248.01 2,188 8.82×
    bubblesort
    		 0.8 6.4 8.00×
    fibsearch
    		 248.69 2,240 9.01×
    heapsort
    		 9 82.8 9.20×
    hsearch
    		 5,154 49,366 9.58×
    insertionsort
    		 8.4 64 7.62×
    malloc
    		 2,200,147 25,688,211 11.68×
    mcontend
    		 119.28 4,139 34.70×
    mergesort
    		 23.8 249.39 10.48×
    qsort
    		 15.2 137.4 9.04×
    skiplist
    		 4,989 55,593 11.14×
    tree
    		 1.6 12.8 8.00×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 330,348 678,977 2.06×
    cachehammer
    		 425,235 5,729,263 13.47×
    cacheline
    		 37.75 619.38 16.41×
    l1cache
    		 231.48 1,952 8.43×
    memcpy
    		 356.05 2,996 8.41×
    memrate
    		 1.37 9.2 6.72×
    memthrash
    		 127.58 549.84 4.31×
    ptr-chase
    		 44,006,175 189,235,832 4.30×
    spinmem
    		 414.38 806.9 1.95×
    stream
    		 30.06 4,047 134.64×
    vm
    		 66,298 293,851 4.43×

    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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