F8ams_v6 by Microsoft Azure

F8ams_v6 is a Famsv6 family [AMD processor] [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0183 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
24,613
(All-cores)
3,081
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F8ams_v6
Name
F8ams_v6
API Reference
Standard_F8ams_v6
Description
Famsv6 family [AMD processor] [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] 8 vCPUs
Family
Famsv6
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
17
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-29T21:53:15.138820

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0183 USD/h 0.0898 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0854 USD/h 0.462 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.462 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.462 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1323 USD/h 0.716 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1323 USD/h 0.716 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1323 USD/h 0.716 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1324 USD/h 0.716 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1509 USD/h 0.716 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.139 USD/h 0.752 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1416 USD/h 0.766 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1454 USD/h 0.787 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1477 USD/h 0.799 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1477 USD/h 0.799 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1477 USD/h 0.799 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1494 USD/h 0.809 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.1495 USD/h 0.809 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.1495 USD/h 0.809 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.1521 USD/h 0.823 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1538 USD/h 0.832 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1554 USD/h 0.841 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1554 USD/h 0.841 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1554 USD/h 0.841 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1554 USD/h 0.841 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1584 USD/h 0.857 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1584 USD/h 0.857 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.1597 USD/h 0.864 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.1597 USD/h 0.864 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.1597 USD/h 0.864 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1597 USD/h 0.864 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.16 USD/h 0.866 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.16 USD/h 0.866 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.16 USD/h 0.866 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.163 USD/h 0.882 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.163 USD/h 0.882 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.163 USD/h 0.882 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0898 USD/h 0.898 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.1659 USD/h 0.898 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1659 USD/h 0.898 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1659 USD/h 0.898 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.1691 USD/h 0.915 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1722 USD/h 0.932 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1722 USD/h 0.932 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1722 USD/h 0.932 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1769 USD/h 0.957 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.183 USD/h 0.99 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.1852 USD/h 1.002 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.1861 USD/h 1.007 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.189 USD/h 1.023 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.189 USD/h 1.023 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.189 USD/h 1.023 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.2014 USD/h 1.09 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.2075 USD/h 1.123 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.2118 USD/h 1.146 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.2122 USD/h 1.148 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.2292 USD/h 1.24 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.246 USD/h 1.331 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.246 USD/h 1.331 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.2754 USD/h 1.49 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
3.7 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
9V74
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
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, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, 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, 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
Ecpus
8
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, memory-intensive virtual machine featuring high memory-to-core density and strong single-core performance for database and text processing workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Microsoft Azure F8ams_v6 is a memory-optimized virtual machine featuring 8 dedicated AMD EPYC 9V74 vCPUs running at 3.7 GHz on the x86_64 architecture. It is equipped with 64.0 GB of RAM, yielding a high resource density of 8.0 GB per core, though it lacks bundled local storage and GPUs. Benchmark results show strong single-core CPU performance and text processing capabilities, placing in the top 25%, while multi-core operations, database tasks, and web serving throughput perform at average levels. Conversely, large-block uncached memory read bandwidth is a notable bottleneck, scoring in the bottom 25%. Qualitatively, the F8ams_v6 provides a cost-effective profile for memory-intensive workloads that do not require local disk storage. It is well-suited for database operations, text processing, and small-scale language model inference.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.72Score
      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) 1,150,401 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.63 50.00% 50.00% -21.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 9,949,252 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.82 20.00% 20.00% -3.90%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,603 2,416 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 48,964 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.45 10.00% 10.00% -7.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,905 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,104

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 10,979

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 20,098
      Compression
      		 210,748
      Encryption
      		 10,463
      Extended Instructions
      		 19,753
      Floating Point Maths
      		 42,619
      Integer Maths
      		 48,366
      Physics
      		 2,079
      Prime Numbers
      		 157
      Single Threaded
      		 2,905
      String Sorting
      		 30,522

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,603
      Database Operations
      		 7,446
      Memory Latency
      		 77
      Memory Read Cached
      		 27,898
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 27,577
      Memory Write
      		 26,864

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 600.06 546.59 0.91×
      bitops
      		 160,480 1,282,176 7.99×
      branch
      		 212,803 1,701,849 8.00×
      funccall
      		 619.51 4,927 7.95×
      funcret
      		 20,866 170,379 8.17×
      hash
      		 163,588 1,305,183 7.98×
      intmath
      		 66,801 532,614 7.97×
      nop
      		 628,755 5,016,789 7.98×
      prime
      		 475,679 3,825,957 8.04×
      rotate
      		 88,382 705,305 7.98×
      str
      		 1,087,543 8,692,210 7.99×
      wcs
      		 685,105 5,627,750 8.21×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,753 29,976 7.99×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 871.42 6,838 7.85×
      zlib
      		 65.21 477.78 7.33×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 22,905 158,366 6.91×
      clone
      		 1,394 6,633 4.76×
      context
      		 3,060 24,390 7.97×
      cpu-sched
      		 65.32 471.22 7.21×
      eventfd
      		 43,641 691,890 15.85×
      fault
      		 11,278 76,263 6.76×
      fork
      		 5,824 33,241 5.71×
      getrandom
      		 53,011 417,551 7.88×
      hrtimers
      		 346,340 968,078 2.80×
      mprotect
      		 1,570,832 2,185,883 1.39×
      mtx
      		 36,279,039 1,183,464,724 32.62×
      munmap
      		 3,936 24,772 6.29×
      null
      		 350,590 2,809,155 8.01×
      pipe
      		 1,257,191 4,554,975 3.62×
      priv-instr
      		 451,943 3,611,988 7.99×
      resched
      		 2,236,976 1,004,308 0.45×
      switch
      		 186,329 1,789,408 9.60×
      timermix
      		 192,498 1,562,759 8.12×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 19,616 50,061 2.55×
      tsc
      		 785,893 6,271,564 7.98×
      usersyscall
      		 332,612 2,663,247 8.01×
      vdso
      		 94,565,201 754,736,314 7.98×
      vfork
      		 35,256 202,891 5.75×
      x86syscall
      		 4,173,545 33,317,341 7.98×
      yield
      		 5,270,133 5,488,489 1.04×
      zero
      		 2,785,922 22,168,458 7.96×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 16,463 132,130 8.03×
      expmath
      		 2,223 17,726 7.97×
      fma
      		 920,844 7,348,969 7.98×
      fp
      		 252 2,009 7.97×
      fractal
      		 7.4 58.8 7.95×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,818 30,489 7.99×
      logmath
      		 4,565 36,415 7.98×
      matrix
      		 4,913 39,356 8.01×
      matrix-3d
      		 147.79 1,066 7.21×
      monte-carlo
      		 182.41 1,458 7.99×
      mpfr
      		 1,700 13,591 7.99×
      powmath
      		 1,319 10,539 7.99×
      trig
      		 1,873 14,963 7.99×
      veccmp
      		 19,005 152,105 8.00×
      vecfp
      		 1,813 14,455 7.97×
      vecmath
      		 4,025 32,116 7.98×
      vecshuf
      		 638.43 5,091 7.97×
      vecwide
      		 28,589 227,878 7.97×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 10.4 83.2 8.00×
      bsearch
      		 306.37 2,452 8.00×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 6.8 8.50×
      fibsearch
      		 380.81 3,037 7.98×
      heapsort
      		 10.8 85.6 7.93×
      hsearch
      		 11,341 90,149 7.95×
      insertionsort
      		 13 104.4 8.03×
      malloc
      		 3,836,912 29,992,457 7.82×
      mcontend
      		 218.29 1,630 7.47×
      mergesort
      		 34.2 273.19 7.99×
      qsort
      		 22 173.8 7.90×
      skiplist
      		 7,092 56,307 7.94×
      tree
      		 2.2 11.8 5.36×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 924,915 2,253,013 2.44×
      cachehammer
      		 280,472 2,190,105 7.81×
      cacheline
      		 77.19 641.96 8.32×
      l1cache
      		 252.34 2,046 8.11×
      memcpy
      		 448.53 3,577 7.97×
      memrate
      		 3.74 4.71 1.26×
      memthrash
      		 163.89 430.97 2.63×
      ptr-chase
      		 58,307,261 79,497,181 1.36×
      spinmem
      		 323.79 632.96 1.95×
      stream
      		 139.89 1,583 11.32×
      vm
      		 201,823 292,349 1.45×

      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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