F8alds_v7 by Microsoft Azure

F8alds_v7 is a Faldsv7 family [AMD processor] [Low Memory] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 945 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0684 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
945 GB Storage
Spare SCore
30,004
(All-cores)
3,771
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F8alds_v7
Name
F8alds_v7
API Reference
Standard_F8alds_v7
Description
Faldsv7 family [AMD processor] [Low Memory] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 8 vCPUs
Family
Faldsv7
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
34
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-23T00:55:48.158255

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0684 USD/h 0.37 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.37 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0996 USD/h 0.539 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1056 USD/h 0.572 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1057 USD/h 0.572 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1057 USD/h 0.572 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1057 USD/h 0.572 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1057 USD/h 0.572 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.111 USD/h 0.572 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1131 USD/h 0.612 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1162 USD/h 0.629 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1181 USD/h 0.639 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1181 USD/h 0.639 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1229 USD/h 0.665 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1242 USD/h 0.672 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1242 USD/h 0.672 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1242 USD/h 0.672 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1242 USD/h 0.672 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1277 USD/h 0.691 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1279 USD/h 0.692 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1279 USD/h 0.692 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1303 USD/h 0.705 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.1303 USD/h 0.705 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1327 USD/h 0.718 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1327 USD/h 0.718 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1377 USD/h 0.745 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1377 USD/h 0.745 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1412 USD/h 0.764 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1464 USD/h 0.792 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.1512 USD/h 0.818 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1512 USD/h 0.818 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1696 USD/h 0.918 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
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
384 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
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
8
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An 8-core compute-optimized server combining high-frequency AMD processors with fast local NVMe storage for single-threaded and disk-intensive workloads.

    Compute OptimizedStorage & Database

    The Microsoft Azure F8alds_v7 is a compute-optimized server from the Faldsv7 family, featuring 8 dedicated AMD EPYC 9V45 vCPUs running at 4.5 GHz and 16.0 GB of RAM. This configuration yields a low memory-to-core ratio of 2.0 GB per vCPU, which is offset by a substantial 945 GB local NVMe SSD. In benchmark testing, the server achieves top-tier results in single-core CPU execution, single-threaded gzip compression, and small-model LLM text generation. Conversely, multi-core performance and memory bandwidth remain in the average tier. The F8alds_v7 is suited for compute-heavy, single-threaded tasks, small-scale database operations, and lightweight web serving where high-speed local storage is required but memory demands are moderate.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.75Score
    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) 1,077,878 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.58 50.00% 50.00% -24.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 10,571,028 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.92 20.00% 20.00% -1.70%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,429 2,416 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 70,117 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.64 10.00% 10.00% -4.40%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,791 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.6 10.00% 10.00% +4.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 24,587
    Compression
    		 246,768
    Encryption
    		 12,429
    Extended Instructions
    		 22,199
    Floating Point Maths
    		 60,248
    Integer Maths
    		 60,945
    Physics
    		 2,865
    Prime Numbers
    		 202
    Single Threaded
    		 3,791
    String Sorting
    		 33,727

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,429
    Database Operations
    		 9,960
    Memory Latency
    		 82
    Memory Read Cached
    		 33,798
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 29,899
    Memory Write
    		 30,367

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 501.48 472.35 0.94×
    bitops
    		 231,780 1,738,378 7.50×
    branch
    		 179,959 1,406,378 7.81×
    funccall
    		 907.1 6,738 7.43×
    funcret
    		 26,670 199,391 7.48×
    hash
    		 216,267 1,645,412 7.61×
    intmath
    		 79,564 638,735 8.03×
    nop
    		 430,499 3,426,085 7.96×
    prime
    		 617,352 4,598,096 7.45×
    rotate
    		 141,298 1,130,997 8.00×
    str
    		 1,475,968 11,766,149 7.97×
    wcs
    		 1,054,734 7,575,098 7.18×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 5,451 38,301 7.03×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 1,125 8,395 7.46×
    zlib
    		 71.78 507.6 7.07×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 26,818 180,209 6.72×
    clone
    		 1,373 3,972 2.89×
    context
    		 5,454 43,751 8.02×
    cpu-sched
    		 67.88 495.94 7.31×
    eventfd
    		 48,881 762,951 15.61×
    fault
    		 12,489 84,010 6.73×
    fork
    		 6,716 38,060 5.67×
    getrandom
    		 75,341 566,117 7.51×
    hrtimers
    		 630,364 1,245,282 1.98×
    mprotect
    		 1,700,647 2,473,585 1.45×
    mtx
    		 20,033,525 642,162,552 32.05×
    munmap
    		 4,582 30,515 6.66×
    null
    		 598,347 4,828,063 8.07×
    pipe
    		 2,729,654 5,401,370 1.98×
    priv-instr
    		 582,118 4,633,897 7.96×
    resched
    		 2,361,170 1,073,096 0.45×
    switch
    		 184,944 1,878,698 10.16×
    timermix
    		 217,093 1,599,418 7.37×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 24,293 53,948 2.22×
    tsc
    		 886,106 7,075,615 7.99×
    usersyscall
    		 463,316 3,648,565 7.87×
    vdso
    		 110,132,346 875,928,407 7.95×
    vfork
    		 40,422 222,095 5.49×
    x86syscall
    		 8,370,524 62,894,232 7.51×
    yield
    		 5,741,329 5,981,252 1.04×
    zero
    		 4,368,904 32,968,774 7.55×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 17,446 130,897 7.50×
    expmath
    		 3,992 30,243 7.58×
    fma
    		 1,567,898 11,506,203 7.34×
    fp
    		 189.21 1,572 8.31×
    fractal
    		 8.8 66.8 7.59×
    hyperbolic
    		 5,425 41,046 7.57×
    logmath
    		 5,717 43,040 7.53×
    matrix
    		 9,303 66,529 7.15×
    matrix-3d
    		 113.13 772.73 6.83×
    monte-carlo
    		 280.55 2,155 7.68×
    mpfr
    		 2,416 17,932 7.42×
    powmath
    		 1,831 13,987 7.64×
    trig
    		 2,444 18,343 7.51×
    veccmp
    		 30,219 225,333 7.46×
    vecfp
    		 2,446 18,015 7.36×
    vecmath
    		 4,756 36,159 7.60×
    vecshuf
    		 1,003 7,427 7.40×
    vecwide
    		 40,334 291,253 7.22×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 12.8 95.4 7.45×
    bsearch
    		 366.28 2,775 7.58×
    bubblesort
    		 1.2 8.2 6.83×
    fibsearch
    		 429.49 3,278 7.63×
    heapsort
    		 14.4 105.8 7.35×
    hsearch
    		 13,451 99,565 7.40×
    insertionsort
    		 15.8 87 5.51×
    malloc
    		 5,293,905 34,239,001 6.47×
    mcontend
    		 279.27 1,711 6.13×
    mergesort
    		 38.8 289.99 7.47×
    qsort
    		 26.8 196.8 7.34×
    skiplist
    		 8,466 62,703 7.41×
    tree
    		 2.8 14 5.00×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 1,113,328 2,917,045 2.62×
    cachehammer
    		 278,084 2,226,695 8.01×
    cacheline
    		 79.8 688.28 8.63×
    l1cache
    		 1,363 10,306 7.56×
    memcpy
    		 798.97 5,907 7.39×
    memrate
    		 4.95 6.31 1.27×
    memthrash
    		 182.5 498.77 2.73×
    ptr-chase
    		 91,646,348 80,033,157 0.87×
    spinmem
    		 357.99 660.36 1.84×
    stream
    		 154.71 1,847 11.94×
    vm
    		 242,020 292,473 1.21×

    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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