F8 by Microsoft Azure

F8 is a F family [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 131 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0521 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
131 GB Storage
Spare SCore
6,599
(All-cores)
956
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F8
Name
F8
API Reference
Standard_F8
Description
F family [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
F
Hw Virt
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-09-24T08:31:11.911045Z

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0804 USD/h 0.395 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.395 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.395 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.081 USD/h 0.398 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.081 USD/h 0.398 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0813 USD/h 0.398 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.086 USD/h 0.398 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2449 USD/h 0.398 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0823 USD/h 0.404 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0831 USD/h 0.408 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0831 USD/h 0.408 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.2015 USD/h 0.415 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0847 USD/h 0.416 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0847 USD/h 0.416 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.089 USD/h 0.437 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.089 USD/h 0.437 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0849 USD/h 0.438 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0892 USD/h 0.438 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0892 USD/h 0.438 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0894 USD/h 0.439 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0921 USD/h 0.452 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0924 USD/h 0.454 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0924 USD/h 0.454 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0924 USD/h 0.454 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0924 USD/h 0.454 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0924 USD/h 0.454 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0924 USD/h 0.454 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0924 USD/h 0.454 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0929 USD/h 0.456 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0929 USD/h 0.456 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0943 USD/h 0.462 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0967 USD/h 0.475 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0973 USD/h 0.478 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0973 USD/h 0.478 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0976 USD/h 0.478 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0983 USD/h 0.483 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1014 USD/h 0.498 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.1016 USD/h 0.499 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1017 USD/h 0.4994 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1026 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1026 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0521 USD/h 0.521 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.1061 USD/h 0.521 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1061 USD/h 0.521 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1061 USD/h 0.521 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.1069 USD/h 0.525 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1085 USD/h 0.533 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.1114 USD/h 0.547 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.1135 USD/h 0.557 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1169 USD/h 0.574 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1177 USD/h 0.578 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.1201 USD/h 0.59 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.1207 USD/h 0.593 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.1321 USD/h 0.649 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.1322 USD/h 0.6491 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.1367 USD/h 0.669 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.1522 USD/h 0.747 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2673 v4
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
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
50 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
50 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, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, rdseed, adx, smap, xsaveopt, md_clear
Ecpus
6.9
Scalability
86.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    131 GB
    Storages
    • 131 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A compute-optimized x86_64 server featuring eight dedicated cores, bundled local storage, and balanced multi-core performance for parallelized workloads.

    Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure F8 is an x86_64 compute-optimized server from the F family, running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It features an Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 processor with 8 dedicated physical cores operating at 2.3 GHz, paired with 16.0 GB of RAM and 131 GB of bundled local storage. The instance does not include a GPU. Performance benchmarks reveal a contrast between average multi-core capabilities and poor single-core execution. Multi-core metrics, such as a Geekbench multi-core score of 4494.0 and a stress-ng multi-core score of 6598.92, fall in the average tier, whereas single-core benchmarks reside in the bottom 10%. Memory write bandwidth is weak at 23.47 GB/sec, though read bandwidth remains average. This hardware configuration is suited for parallelized workloads like static web serving, Redis operations, and software compilation, offering a balanced compute-to-RAM ratio for non-memory-intensive applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.45Score
    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) 737,487 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 0.384 50.00% 50.00% -38.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 5,146,543 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 0.439 20.00% 20.00% -15.20%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,596 2,418 0.66 10.00% 10.00% -4.07%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 53,256 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 0.492 10.00% 10.00% -6.85%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,525 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.645 10.00% 10.00% -4.29%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 812

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 4,494

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 8795
    Compression
    		 118588
    Encryption
    		 3021
    Extended Instructions
    		 9872
    Floating Point Maths
    		 19390
    Integer Maths
    		 23510
    Physics
    		 794
    Prime Numbers
    		 44
    Single Threaded
    		 1525
    String Sorting
    		 14173

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1596
    Database Operations
    		 4106
    Memory Latency
    		 74
    Memory Read Cached
    		 17657
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 6253
    Memory Write
    		 6706

    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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