F4alds_v7 by Microsoft Azure

F4alds_v7 is a Faldsv7 family [AMD processor] [Low Memory] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 4 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 472 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0342 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
472 GB Storage
Spare SCore
14,901
(All-cores)
3,679
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F4alds_v7
Name
F4alds_v7
API Reference
Standard_F4alds_v7
Description
Faldsv7 family [AMD processor] [Low Memory] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 4 vCPUs
Family
Faldsv7
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
22.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-21T21:33:24.992579

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0342 USD/h 0.185 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.185 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0499 USD/h 0.27 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0528 USD/h 0.286 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0529 USD/h 0.286 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0529 USD/h 0.286 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0529 USD/h 0.286 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0529 USD/h 0.286 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0555 USD/h 0.286 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0565 USD/h 0.306 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0582 USD/h 0.315 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.059 USD/h 0.319 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.059 USD/h 0.319 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0615 USD/h 0.333 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0621 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0621 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0621 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0621 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0638 USD/h 0.345 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0639 USD/h 0.346 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0639 USD/h 0.346 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.065 USD/h 0.352 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.065 USD/h 0.352 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0663 USD/h 0.359 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0663 USD/h 0.359 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0687 USD/h 0.372 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0687 USD/h 0.372 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0706 USD/h 0.382 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0732 USD/h 0.396 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0756 USD/h 0.409 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0756 USD/h 0.409 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0848 USD/h 0.459 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
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
192 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 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
4.1
Scalability
102.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    472 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 472 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A high-frequency, compute-optimized virtual machine featuring dedicated AMD EPYC cores and fast local NVMe SSD storage for single-threaded workloads.

    Compute OptimizedStorage & Database

    The Microsoft Azure F4alds_v7 is a compute-optimized virtual machine powered by a 4.5 GHz AMD EPYC 9V45 processor with 4 dedicated vCPUs and 4 physical cores. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this x86_64 server features a low-memory configuration of 8.0 GB RAM paired with a bundled 472 GB local NVMe SSD. Benchmark results highlight top-tier single-core performance, with stress-ng single-core and Geekbench single-core scores placing in the top 10%. It also excels in single-threaded compression tasks and small-model LLM text generation. However, multi-core performance and memory bandwidth remain average, and prompt processing for medium models is relatively weak. This server is highly cost-efficient for high-frequency, single-threaded compute tasks, software compilation, and lightweight web serving that benefit from fast local storage but do not require extensive memory capacity.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.46Score
    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) 533,855 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.28 50.00% 50.00% -47.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 5,461,994 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.46 20.00% 20.00% -14.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,155 2,416 0.92 10.00% 10.00% -0.83%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 96,978 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,607 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.5 10.00% 10.00% +4.10%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,829

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 8,843

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 12,918
    Compression
    		 127,057
    Encryption
    		 6,064
    Extended Instructions
    		 11,339
    Floating Point Maths
    		 29,476
    Integer Maths
    		 29,280
    Physics
    		 1,765
    Prime Numbers
    		 112
    Single Threaded
    		 3,607
    String Sorting
    		 17,286

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,155
    Database Operations
    		 5,328
    Memory Latency
    		 83
    Memory Read Cached
    		 32,098
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 28,595
    Memory Write
    		 29,943

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 479.76 483.19 1.01×
    bitops
    		 219,951 872,265 3.97×
    branch
    		 175,368 680,983 3.88×
    funccall
    		 870.72 3,489 4.01×
    funcret
    		 26,287 107,585 4.09×
    hash
    		 213,730 857,286 4.01×
    intmath
    		 76,914 306,105 3.98×
    nop
    		 424,579 1,703,173 4.01×
    prime
    		 611,336 2,421,109 3.96×
    rotate
    		 139,744 554,816 3.97×
    str
    		 1,551,852 6,204,590 4.00×
    wcs
    		 1,021,293 4,049,886 3.97×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 5,231 20,961 4.01×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 1,077 4,281 3.98×
    zlib
    		 68.98 290.27 4.21×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 26,070 95,912 3.68×
    clone
    		 1,330 1,114 0.84×
    context
    		 5,141 20,864 4.06×
    cpu-sched
    		 57.56 245.99 4.27×
    eventfd
    		 46,715 352,307 7.54×
    fault
    		 13,050 46,327 3.55×
    fork
    		 6,270 21,990 3.51×
    getrandom
    		 69,825 283,522 4.06×
    hrtimers
    		 382,119 766,348 2.01×
    mprotect
    		 1,159,174 1,259,510 1.09×
    mtx
    		 19,408,838 285,225,840 14.70×
    munmap
    		 4,535 16,383 3.61×
    null
    		 586,429 2,267,625 3.87×
    pipe
    		 2,630,347 2,757,550 1.05×
    priv-instr
    		 572,416 2,219,552 3.88×
    resched
    		 957,692 470,732 0.49×
    switch
    		 174,197 852,474 4.89×
    timermix
    		 210,901 837,134 3.97×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 23,802 29,404 1.24×
    tsc
    		 849,595 3,367,857 3.96×
    usersyscall
    		 441,468 1,776,747 4.02×
    vdso
    		 104,783,058 414,051,995 3.95×
    vfork
    		 39,539 128,899 3.26×
    x86syscall
    		 8,026,950 31,267,074 3.90×
    yield
    		 2,870,645 2,903,256 1.01×
    zero
    		 4,257,076 16,744,716 3.93×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 17,017 67,515 3.97×
    expmath
    		 3,871 15,429 3.99×
    fma
    		 1,531,754 6,007,602 3.92×
    fp
    		 200.5 788.08 3.93×
    fractal
    		 8.8 34 3.86×
    hyperbolic
    		 5,311 21,005 3.95×
    logmath
    		 5,516 22,207 4.03×
    matrix
    		 8,896 35,372 3.98×
    matrix-3d
    		 100.98 672.94 6.66×
    monte-carlo
    		 280.59 1,119 3.99×
    mpfr
    		 2,388 9,525 3.99×
    powmath
    		 1,802 7,188 3.99×
    trig
    		 2,359 9,332 3.96×
    veccmp
    		 28,832 114,837 3.98×
    vecfp
    		 2,321 9,055 3.90×
    vecmath
    		 4,532 18,176 4.01×
    vecshuf
    		 945.28 3,770 3.99×
    vecwide
    		 38,398 152,550 3.97×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 12.4 48.4 3.90×
    bsearch
    		 349.31 1,402 4.01×
    bubblesort
    		 1 4.8 4.80×
    fibsearch
    		 419.71 1,674 3.99×
    heapsort
    		 14.2 56.6 3.99×
    hsearch
    		 13,188 51,637 3.92×
    insertionsort
    		 12.6 46.2 3.67×
    malloc
    		 5,195,290 20,593,054 3.96×
    mcontend
    		 277.66 815.08 2.94×
    mergesort
    		 39 155.2 3.98×
    qsort
    		 26.8 103.6 3.87×
    skiplist
    		 8,313 32,678 3.93×
    tree
    		 2.6 10.2 3.92×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 1,080,937 2,142,076 1.98×
    cachehammer
    		 278,782 1,101,174 3.95×
    cacheline
    		 74.59 299.05 4.01×
    l1cache
    		 1,319 5,339 4.05×
    memcpy
    		 790.1 3,189 4.04×
    memrate
    		 4.73 6.28 1.33×
    memthrash
    		 84.74 276.44 3.26×
    ptr-chase
    		 87,874,062 97,102,265 1.11×
    spinmem
    		 338.39 276.75 0.82×
    stream
    		 147.01 875.99 5.96×
    vm
    		 239,140 291,518 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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