FX16-4mds_v2 by Microsoft Azure

FX16-4mds_v2 is a FXmdsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 336 GiB of memory and 945 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.4043 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
336 GiB Memory
945 GB Storage
Spare SCore
4,437
(All-cores)
2,164
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_FX16-4mds_v2
Name
FX16-4mds_v2
API Reference
Standard_FX16-4mds_v2
Description
FXmdsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
FXmdsv2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-22T21:29:36.861498

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.4043 USD/h 2.188 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.4043 USD/h 2.188 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.4593 USD/h 2.188 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.4045 USD/h 2.189 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.4173 USD/h 2.258 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.445 USD/h 2.408 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.4565 USD/h 2.473 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.4613 USD/h 2.496 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.4731 USD/h 2.56 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.4853 USD/h 2.626 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.4853 USD/h 2.626 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.4855 USD/h 2.627 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.4855 USD/h 2.627 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.4894 USD/h 2.648 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.4977 USD/h 2.693 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.4977 USD/h 2.693 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.5097 USD/h 2.758 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.5097 USD/h 2.758 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.5258 USD/h 2.845 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.5258 USD/h 2.845 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.5258 USD/h 2.845 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.5259 USD/h 2.846 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.5662 USD/h 3.064 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.5664 USD/h 3.065 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.5664 USD/h 3.065 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.5701 USD/h 3.085 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.5777 USD/h 3.126 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.5864 USD/h 3.173 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.5866 USD/h 3.174 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.5866 USD/h 3.174 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.5866 USD/h 3.174 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.6158 USD/h 3.332 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.623 USD/h 3.371 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.7362 USD/h 3.984 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.7887 USD/h 4.268 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
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
96 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 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
2
Scalability
50

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
336 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
336 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

    Server Description

    A memory-dense virtual machine combining top-tier single-core Intel performance with massive RAM and local NVMe storage for memory-intensive workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure FX16-4mds_v2 is a memory-optimized virtual machine featuring 4 vCPUs and 2 physical cores powered by an Intel Xeon 8573C processor running at 4.2 GHz. It is configured with an exceptionally high memory capacity of 336.0 GB (84.0 GB per core) and a 945 GB local NVMe SSD. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, the server delivers top-tier single-core performance, as evidenced by a Geekbench single-core score of 2357.0 and strong single-threaded compression benchmarks. However, multi-core compute and uncached large-block memory bandwidth are relatively weak due to the low core count. This hardware profile is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-intensive workloads that do not require massive parallel processing, making it highly suited for in-memory databases, caching layers, and memory-heavy data processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.54Score
    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) 851,342 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.45 50.00% 50.00% -33.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,282,933 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.36 20.00% 20.00% -18.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,406 2,416 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 68,253 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,240 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,357

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 5,278

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 8,152
    Compression
    		 78,690
    Encryption
    		 4,613
    Extended Instructions
    		 6,089
    Floating Point Maths
    		 15,062
    Integer Maths
    		 21,248
    Physics
    		 1,034
    Prime Numbers
    		 42
    Single Threaded
    		 3,240
    String Sorting
    		 10,741

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,406
    Database Operations
    		 3,102
    Memory Latency
    		 57
    Memory Read Cached
    		 29,282
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10,611
    Memory Write
    		 9,724

    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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