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FX12-6mds_v2 by Microsoft Azure

FX12-6mds_v2 is a FXmdsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 12 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 6 vCPUs, 252 GiB of memory and 945 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.3033 USD per hour.
6 vCPU
252 GiB Memory
945 GB Storage
Spare SCore
6661
(All-cores)
2168
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_FX12-6mds_v2
Name
FX12-6mds_v2
API Reference
Standard_FX12-6mds_v2
Description
FXmdsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 12 vCPUs
Family
FXmdsv2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-19T13:59:41.298833

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.3033 USD/h 1.641 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.3033 USD/h 1.641 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.3444 USD/h 1.641 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.3034 USD/h 1.642 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.3131 USD/h 1.694 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.3337 USD/h 1.806 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.3424 USD/h 1.855 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.3459 USD/h 1.872 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.3548 USD/h 1.92 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.3639 USD/h 1.969 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.3639 USD/h 1.969 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.3641 USD/h 1.97 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.3641 USD/h 1.97 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.367 USD/h 1.986 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.3733 USD/h 2.02 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.3733 USD/h 2.02 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.3822 USD/h 2.068 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.3822 USD/h 2.068 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.3944 USD/h 2.134 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.3944 USD/h 2.134 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.3944 USD/h 2.134 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.3944 USD/h 2.134 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.4247 USD/h 2.298 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.4247 USD/h 2.298 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.4247 USD/h 2.298 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.4276 USD/h 2.314 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.4332 USD/h 2.344 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.4398 USD/h 2.38 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.44 USD/h 2.381 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.44 USD/h 2.381 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.44 USD/h 2.381 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.4618 USD/h 2.499 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.4672 USD/h 2.528 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.5522 USD/h 2.988 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.5915 USD/h 3.201 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
6
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
3
CPU Speed
4.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8573C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
144 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
96 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
6 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
260 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
260 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, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, waitpkg, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, serialize, tsxldtrk, ibt, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
3.1
Scalability
103.33

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    Server Description

    A high-frequency, memory-dense virtual machine featuring exceptional single-core performance and substantial local storage for memory-intensive workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure FX12-6mds_v2 is a memory-optimized virtual machine featuring 6 vCPUs and 252.0 GB of RAM, delivering an exceptional 42.0 GB of memory per core. Powered by a dedicated Intel Xeon 8573C processor running at 4.2 GHz with a 260 MB L3 cache, this x86_64 instance excels in single-core performance, with Geekbench single-core and text processing scores ranking in the top 10% tier. The server is equipped with 945 GB of local storage and supports Premium Storage, though it lacks a GPU. While multi-core benchmarks and large-model LLM inference speeds are average to weak due to the 6-vCPU limit, its high memory density and fast clock speed make it highly cost-efficient for memory-bound workloads. It is best suited for databases, caching layers, and single-threaded data processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.753Score
    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) 1,276,814 ops/sec 1,895,870 ops/sec 0.673 50.00% 50.00% -18.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,444,933 ops/sec 11,503,938 ops/sec 0.56 20.00% 20.00% -10.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,468 2,410 1.02 10.00% 10.00% +0.20%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 103,070 MB/sec 107,331 MB/sec 0.96 10.00% 10.00% -0.41%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,249 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.37 10.00% 10.00% +3.20%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,357

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 7,305

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		12021
    Compression
    		116503
    Encryption
    		7071
    Extended Instructions
    		9215
    Floating Point Maths
    		22610
    Integer Maths
    		31894
    Physics
    		1498
    Prime Numbers
    		64
    Single Threaded
    		3249
    String Sorting
    		16048

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		2468
    Database Operations
    		4370
    Memory Latency
    		60
    Memory Read Cached
    		29281
    Memory Read Uncached
    		10957
    Memory Write
    		10027

    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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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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    FX8-2mds_v2 2168 GiB0
    FX4mds_v2 484 GiB0
    FX8-4mds_v2 4168 GiB0
    FX16-4mds_v2 4336 GiB0
    FX24-6mds_v2 6504 GiB0

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