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FX16-8ms_v2 by Microsoft Azure

FX16-8ms_v2 is a FXmsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 336 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.3273 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
336 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
8877
(All-cores)
2167
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_FX16-8ms_v2
Name
FX16-8ms_v2
API Reference
Standard_FX16-8ms_v2
Description
FXmsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
FXmsv2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-08T10:22:27.918809

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.3273 USD/h 1.771 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.3273 USD/h 1.771 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.3273 USD/h 1.771 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.3717 USD/h 1.771 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.3376 USD/h 1.827 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.36 USD/h 1.948 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.3694 USD/h 2.001 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.3733 USD/h 2.02 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.3829 USD/h 2.072 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.3927 USD/h 2.125 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.3927 USD/h 2.125 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.3927 USD/h 2.125 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.3927 USD/h 2.125 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.3958 USD/h 2.142 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.4027 USD/h 2.179 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.4027 USD/h 2.179 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.4123 USD/h 2.231 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.4123 USD/h 2.231 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.4254 USD/h 2.302 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.4254 USD/h 2.302 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.4254 USD/h 2.302 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.4254 USD/h 2.302 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.4581 USD/h 2.479 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.4583 USD/h 2.48 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.4583 USD/h 2.48 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.4613 USD/h 2.496 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.4674 USD/h 2.529 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.4744 USD/h 2.567 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.4746 USD/h 2.568 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.4746 USD/h 2.568 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.4746 USD/h 2.568 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.4982 USD/h 2.696 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.504 USD/h 2.727 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.5956 USD/h 3.223 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.6383 USD/h 3.454 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
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
192 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 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
4.1
Scalability
102.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
336 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
336 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

    Server Description

    A memory-intensive server combining massive RAM capacity with high-frequency single-core performance for demanding enterprise databases and caching.

    Memory OptimizedCompute Optimized

    The Microsoft Azure FX16-8ms_v2 is a memory-optimized server from the FXmsv2 family, featuring an x86_64 Intel Xeon 8573C processor with 8 dedicated vCPUs, 4 physical cores, and a high clock speed of 4.2 GHz. It is equipped with 336.0 GB of RAM, providing an exceptional 42.0 GB of memory per core, though it lacks local storage and GPUs. Performance benchmarks show top-tier single-core execution, with a Geekbench single-core score of 2338.0 and strong single-threaded compression speeds. Conversely, multi-core and memory bandwidth metrics align with average tiers, and larger LLM inference tasks show performance trade-offs. This server is highly efficient for memory-intensive workloads that benefit from high single-core clock speeds, such as in-memory databases, Redis caching, and complex text processing pipelines.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.921Score
    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) 1,663,122 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.87 50.00% 50.00% -6.73%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 8,482,062 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.731 20.00% 20.00% -6.07%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,304 2,416 0.954 10.00% 10.00% -0.47%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 135,988 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 1.26 10.00% 10.00% +2.34%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,246 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 1.37 10.00% 10.00% +3.20%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,338

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 8,962

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 15732
    Compression
    		 154497
    Encryption
    		 9435
    Extended Instructions
    		 12495
    Floating Point Maths
    		 30121
    Integer Maths
    		 42515
    Physics
    		 1986
    Prime Numbers
    		 81
    Single Threaded
    		 3246
    String Sorting
    		 21325

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2304
    Database Operations
    		 5071
    Memory Latency
    		 70
    Memory Read Cached
    		 29472
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10338
    Memory Write
    		 9572

    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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    FX4ms_v2 484 GiB0
    FX8-4ms_v2 4168 GiB0
    FX16-4ms_v2 4336 GiB0
    FX12-6ms_v2 6252 GiB0

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