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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 0.0166 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
24613
(All-cores)
3081
(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
2026-07-31T11:21:39.327787

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0166 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
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1323 USD/h 0.716 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1336 USD/h 0.716 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1412 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
0.1444 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
0.1738 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
0.131 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
0.1813 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
0.1849 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
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
    • 0 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An AMD-powered virtual machine featuring high memory density, dedicated single-thread performance, and advanced vector extensions for memory-intensive enterprise workloads.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure F8ams_v6 is an x86_64 memory-intensive virtual machine powered by an AMD EPYC 9V74 processor running at 3.7 GHz. It features 8 dedicated physical cores and 8 vCPUs, paired with 64.0 GB of RAM, establishing an 8.0 GB per vCPU ratio. The instance does not include local storage but is premium storage capable. Benchmarks reveal strong single-core CPU performance and top-tier text processing capabilities, though multi-core metrics and uncached large-block memory read bandwidth remain average to weak. Supported instruction sets include AVX-512 and AES. This configuration is suited for memory-intensive applications, database operations, and text processing workloads that require dedicated compute resources without GPU acceleration.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.719Score
    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 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.607 50.00% 50.00% -22.10%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 9,949,252 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.862 20.00% 20.00% -2.93%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,603 2,411 1.08 10.00% 10.00% +0.77%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 48,964 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.456 10.00% 10.00% -7.55%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,905 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.23 10.00% 10.00% +2.09%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,104

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 10,979

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 20098
    Compression
    		 210748
    Encryption
    		 10463
    Extended Instructions
    		 19753
    Floating Point Maths
    		 42619
    Integer Maths
    		 48366
    Physics
    		 2079
    Prime Numbers
    		 157
    Single Threaded
    		 2905
    String Sorting
    		 30522

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2603
    Database Operations
    		 7446
    Memory Latency
    		 77
    Memory Read Cached
    		 27898
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 27577
    Memory Write
    		 26864

    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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