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FX16ms_v2 by Microsoft Azure

FX16ms_v2 is a FXmsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 336 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.3273 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
336 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
17770
(All-cores)
2168
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_FX16ms_v2
Name
FX16ms_v2
API Reference
Standard_FX16ms_v2
Description
FXmsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
FXmsv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
62
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-27T11:41:38.127167

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
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
    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

    A memory-intensive virtual server featuring high-frequency Intel Xeon processors and advanced matrix extensions for demanding database and text processing workloads.

    Memory Optimized

    Microsoft Azure FX16ms_v2 is an x86_64 memory-optimized virtual machine running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It features 16 dedicated vCPUs from an 8-core Intel Xeon 8573C processor clocked at 4.2 GHz, supported by 336.0 GB of RAM. The architecture includes advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and Intel AMX. Benchmarks show top-tier performance in text processing and small-model LLM text generation, alongside strong single-core execution. However, memory subsystem performance shows some limitations, with a weak PassMark memory score. The server lacks local storage and complimentary public IPv4 addresses, relying entirely on remote premium storage. This configuration is suited for memory-intensive database operations, text processing pipelines, and CPU-based machine learning inference.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.5Score
    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) 3,377,078 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 1.78 50.00% 50.00% +33.40%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 16,073,382 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 1.39 20.00% 20.00% +6.81%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,534 2,411 0.636 10.00% 10.00% -4.42%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 208,754 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 1.94 10.00% 10.00% +6.85%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,241 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.37 10.00% 10.00% +3.20%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,143

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 12,947

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 29504
    Compression
    		 311002
    Encryption
    		 18726
    Extended Instructions
    		 25267
    Floating Point Maths
    		 60309
    Integer Maths
    		 85078
    Physics
    		 3964
    Prime Numbers
    		 168
    Single Threaded
    		 3241
    String Sorting
    		 41679

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1534
    Database Operations
    		 7394
    Memory Latency
    		 125
    Memory Read Cached
    		 28996
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 7019
    Memory Write
    		 6330

    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
    FX2ms_v2 242 GiB0
    FX4-2ms_v2 284 GiB0
    FX8-2ms_v2 2168 GiB0
    FX4ms_v2 484 GiB0
    FX8-4ms_v2 4168 GiB0
    FX16-4ms_v2 4336 GiB0
    FX12-6ms_v2 6252 GiB0

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