FX24-12mds_v2 by Microsoft Azure

FX24-12mds_v2 is a FXmdsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 24 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 12 vCPUs, 504 GiB of memory and 1.42 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.6065 USD per hour.
12 vCPU
504 GiB Memory
1.42 TB Storage
Spare SCore
13,327
(All-cores)
2,167
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_FX24-12mds_v2
Name
FX24-12mds_v2
API Reference
Standard_FX24-12mds_v2
Description
FXmdsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 24 vCPUs
Family
FXmdsv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
40
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-24T15:35:47.652770

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.6065 USD/h 3.282 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.6065 USD/h 3.282 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.6889 USD/h 3.282 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.6067 USD/h 3.283 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.6261 USD/h 3.388 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.6675 USD/h 3.612 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.6847 USD/h 3.709 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.6919 USD/h 3.744 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.7096 USD/h 3.84 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.7279 USD/h 3.939 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.7279 USD/h 3.939 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.7281 USD/h 3.94 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.7281 USD/h 3.94 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.734 USD/h 3.972 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.7464 USD/h 4.039 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.7464 USD/h 4.039 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.7645 USD/h 4.137 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.7645 USD/h 4.137 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.7885 USD/h 4.267 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.7885 USD/h 4.267 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.7885 USD/h 4.267 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.7887 USD/h 4.268 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.8492 USD/h 4.595 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.8495 USD/h 4.597 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.8495 USD/h 4.597 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.8553 USD/h 4.628 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.8665 USD/h 4.689 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.8796 USD/h 4.76 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.8798 USD/h 4.761 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.8798 USD/h 4.761 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.8798 USD/h 4.761 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.9234 USD/h 4.997 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.9343 USD/h 5.056 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
1.1044 USD/h 5.976 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.1833 USD/h 6.403 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
12
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
6
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
288 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
192 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
12 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
6.1
Scalability
50.83

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
504 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
504 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    1417 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 1417 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized virtual machine combining high-frequency single-core CPU performance with an exceptionally dense memory footprint and local NVMe storage.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure FX24-12mds_v2 is a memory-optimized virtual machine powered by an Intel Xeon 8573C x86_64 processor with 12 dedicated vCPUs and 6 physical cores running at 4.2 GHz. It features 504.0 GB of RAM, providing an exceptional 42.0 GB of memory per core, alongside a local 1417 GB NVMe SSD. Benchmark results highlight top-tier single-core performance, particularly in Geekbench single-core and text processing tests, as well as strong single-threaded compression speeds. However, multi-core benchmarks and medium-model LLM text generation speeds fall into average and weak tiers, respectively. This server is designed for memory-intensive workloads that require high single-threaded CPU performance and substantial memory capacity, such as large database operations, caching systems, and text processing pipelines, rather than highly parallelized multi-core computing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.3Score
    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) 2,565,592 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.4 50.00% 50.00% +18.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 12,860,257 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1.1 20.00% 20.00% +1.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,588 2,416 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 203,995 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1.8 10.00% 10.00% +6.10%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,246 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,356

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 11,836

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 22,815
    Compression
    		 229,856
    Encryption
    		 14,021
    Extended Instructions
    		 18,613
    Floating Point Maths
    		 45,242
    Integer Maths
    		 63,825
    Physics
    		 3,022
    Prime Numbers
    		 127
    Single Threaded
    		 3,246
    String Sorting
    		 31,924

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,588
    Database Operations
    		 7,891
    Memory Latency
    		 58
    Memory Read Cached
    		 29,587
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10,485
    Memory Write
    		 9,612

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 274.11 279.51 1.02×
    bitops
    		 166,655 1,207,782 7.25×
    branch
    		 156,709 1,454,572 9.28×
    funccall
    		 846.13 6,486 7.67×
    funcret
    		 14,165 132,483 9.35×
    hash
    		 199,279 1,734,581 8.70×
    intmath
    		 73,440 520,032 7.08×
    nop
    		 296,503 1,415,334 4.77×
    prime
    		 529,833 3,806,303 7.18×
    rotate
    		 111,426 713,304 6.40×
    str
    		 971,930 9,120,669 9.38×
    wcs
    		 772,909 5,685,547 7.36×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 3,796 26,154 6.89×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 921.78 7,316 7.94×
    zlib
    		 80.73 644.09 7.98×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 43,851 265,472 6.05×
    clone
    		 1,487 8,790 5.91×
    context
    		 5,949 58,906 9.90×
    cpu-sched
    		 73.53 744.99 10.13×
    eventfd
    		 37,632 517,453 13.75×
    fault
    		 25,493 128,681 5.05×
    fork
    		 6,425 37,890 5.90×
    getrandom
    		 65,934 590,265 8.95×
    hrtimers
    		 705,947 2,213,471 3.14×
    mprotect
    		 982,589 4,593,952 4.68×
    mtx
    		 30,417,581 440,651,591 14.49×
    munmap
    		 5,031 35,836 7.12×
    null
    		 978,458 9,251,265 9.45×
    pipe
    		 699,674 10,102,372 14.44×
    priv-instr
    		 967,326 7,692,328 7.95×
    resched
    		 6,074,048 988,100 0.16×
    switch
    		 64,454 4,209,734 65.31×
    timermix
    		 271,594 2,623,981 9.66×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 8,777 27,435 3.13×
    tsc
    		 1,020,962 9,378,603 9.19×
    usersyscall
    		 811,739 6,692,290 8.24×
    vdso
    		 119,434,278 1,054,229,841 8.83×
    vfork
    		 28,857 231,972 8.04×
    x86syscall
    		 11,738,228 119,501,926 10.18×
    yield
    		 12,206,390 11,801,089 0.97×
    zero
    		 6,521,971 65,402,846 10.03×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 18,152 142,863 7.87×
    expmath
    		 3,943 34,518 8.75×
    fma
    		 1,462,896 11,456,900 7.83×
    fp
    		 221.64 2,052 9.26×
    fractal
    		 7.2 62.61 8.70×
    hyperbolic
    		 4,552 39,484 8.67×
    logmath
    		 5,827 55,479 9.52×
    matrix
    		 5,683 41,016 7.22×
    matrix-3d
    		 753.32 4,403 5.84×
    monte-carlo
    		 334.08 3,269 9.78×
    mpfr
    		 1,962 13,701 6.98×
    powmath
    		 2,200 20,077 9.13×
    trig
    		 2,999 23,838 7.95×
    veccmp
    		 28,039 195,273 6.96×
    vecfp
    		 1,732 13,162 7.60×
    vecmath
    		 4,400 37,065 8.42×
    vecshuf
    		 925.23 6,362 6.88×
    vecwide
    		 40,152 296,451 7.38×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 10 71.8 7.18×
    bsearch
    		 322.6 2,648 8.21×
    bubblesort
    		 1.2 9.6 8.00×
    fibsearch
    		 358.79 2,657 7.41×
    heapsort
    		 11.2 91.4 8.16×
    hsearch
    		 9,463 69,841 7.38×
    insertionsort
    		 14.4 75.6 5.25×
    malloc
    		 2,792,916 22,433,097 8.03×
    mcontend
    		 117.87 1,849 15.68×
    mergesort
    		 34.2 294.59 8.61×
    qsort
    		 24.6 207.79 8.45×
    skiplist
    		 6,116 58,191 9.52×
    tree
    		 1.8 16.8 9.33×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 254,815 961,427 3.77×
    cachehammer
    		 128,361 1,216,802 9.48×
    cacheline
    		 67.55 832.49 12.32×
    l1cache
    		 1,232 2,830 2.30×
    memcpy
    		 498.62 2,944 5.90×
    memthrash
    		 198.18 436.53 2.20×
    ptr-chase
    		 36,020,762 347,476,420 9.65×
    spinmem
    		 314.19 815.9 2.60×
    stream
    		 4.95 384.62 77.70×
    vm
    		 199,879 292,889 1.47×

    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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