FX16mds_v2 by Microsoft Azure

FX16mds_v2 is a FXmdsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 336 GiB of memory and 945 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.4043 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
336 GiB Memory
945 GB Storage
Spare SCore
17,786
(All-cores)
2,170
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_FX16mds_v2
Name
FX16mds_v2
API Reference
Standard_FX16mds_v2
Description
FXmdsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
FXmdsv2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-10T22:47:19.482976

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
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
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
384 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 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
8.2
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
    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 memory-intensive server combining high single-core CPU speeds, massive RAM capacity, and local storage for demanding database and text processing workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure FX16mds_v2 is a memory-optimized server featuring 16 dedicated vCPUs and 336.0 GB of RAM, yielding a high ratio of 21.0 GB of memory per core. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8573C processor operating at 4.2 GHz, this x86_64 virtual machine includes 945 GB of local storage and runs on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. Benchmark data reveals top-tier single-core CPU and text processing performance, alongside strong single-threaded compression speeds. Conversely, the PassMark memory score falls into the bottom 25% tier, highlighting a performance tradeoff against its massive capacity. With built-in Intel AMX instructions, the server is suited for memory-intensive databases, text processing, and small-scale LLM inference tasks that benefit from high single-thread performance without requiring dedicated GPU hardware.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.59Score
    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) 3,500,805 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 1.83 50.00% 50.00% +35.30%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 17,150,496 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 1.47 20.00% 20.00% +8.01%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,796 2,418 0.743 10.00% 10.00% -2.93%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 247,744 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 2.29 10.00% 10.00% +8.64%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,253 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.38 10.00% 10.00% +3.27%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,217

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 13,065

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 29592
    Compression
    		 308642
    Encryption
    		 18874
    Extended Instructions
    		 25265
    Floating Point Maths
    		 60373
    Integer Maths
    		 85188
    Physics
    		 4070
    Prime Numbers
    		 171
    Single Threaded
    		 3253
    String Sorting
    		 42079

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1796
    Database Operations
    		 8009
    Memory Latency
    		 97
    Memory Read Cached
    		 29393
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 7473
    Memory Write
    		 6746

    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

    Alternatives

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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    FX2mds_v2 242 GiB0
    FX4-2mds_v2 284 GiB0
    FX8-2mds_v2 2168 GiB0
    FX4mds_v2 484 GiB0
    FX8-4mds_v2 4168 GiB0
    FX16-4mds_v2 4336 GiB0
    FX12-6mds_v2 6252 GiB0

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