FX24-6mds_v2 by Microsoft Azure
FX24-6mds_v2 is a FXmdsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 24 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 6 vCPUs, 504 GiB of memory and 1.42 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.6065 USD per hour.
6 vCPU
504 GiB Memory
1.42 TB Storage
Spare SCore
6660
(All-cores)
(All-cores)
2165
(Single-core)
(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | azure |
Server ID | Standard_FX24-6mds_v2 |
Name | FX24-6mds_v2 |
API Reference | Standard_FX24-6mds_v2 |
Description | FXmdsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 24 vCPUs |
Family | FXmdsv2 |
Hw Virt | |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-06-24T02:13:44.281752 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
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 | 6 |
Hypervisor | Microsoft Hyper-V |
CPU Allocation | Dedicated |
CPU Cores | 3 |
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 | 144 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache | 32 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache Total | 96 KiB |
CPU L2 Cache | 2 MiB |
CPU L2 Cache Total | 6 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 | 3.1 |
Scalability | 103.33 |
System Resources and Accelerators
| MEMORY | |
|---|---|
Memory Amount | 504 GiB |
Memory Amount Actual | 504 GiB |
| GPU | |
|---|---|
GPU Count | 0 |
GPU Memory Min | 0 MiB |
GPU Memory Total | 0 MiB |
GPUs |
| STORAGE | |
|---|---|
Storage Size | 1417 GB |
Storages |
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| NETWORK | |
|---|---|
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
Server Description
A memory-intensive virtual machine featuring an extraordinary memory-to-core ratio and high-speed single-core performance for demanding database and caching workloads.
Memory OptimizedStorage & Database
Microsoft Azure FX24-6mds_v2 is a memory-optimized virtual machine designed for memory-intensive workloads. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8573C processor running at 4.2 GHz, it provides 3 physical cores and 6 vCPUs on an x86_64 architecture. The server stands out with an extraordinary 504.0 GB of RAM, translating to 84.0 GB per core, alongside 1417 GB of local storage. It lacks GPU acceleration. Benchmarks show top-tier single-core capabilities, with a Geekbench single-core score of 2362.0 and strong single-threaded gzip compression at 34.83 GB/sec. However, multi-core performance is moderate, as evidenced by a Geekbench multi-core score of 7259.0. This resource profile makes the FX24-6mds_v2 highly cost-efficient for large in-memory databases, caching systems, and text-processing applications, though it presents a performance tradeoff for highly parallelized compute tasks or large-scale AI model inference.
Economics
Performance
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Score: 2,362
Geekbench Multi-Core
Score: 7,259
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 12058 |
Compression | 117414 |
Encryption | 7085 |
Extended Instructions | 9326 |
Floating Point Maths | 22613 |
Integer Maths | 31883 |
Physics | 1516 |
Prime Numbers | 64 |
Single Threaded | 3247 |
String Sorting | 15975 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 2482 |
Database Operations | 4382 |
Memory Latency | 58 |
Memory Read Cached | 28723 |
Memory Read Uncached | 10594 |
Memory Write | 9634 |
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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|---|---|---|---|
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| FX8-2mds_v2 | 2 | 168 GiB | 0 |
| FX4mds_v2 | 4 | 84 GiB | 0 |
| FX8-4mds_v2 | 4 | 168 GiB | 0 |
| FX16-4mds_v2 | 4 | 336 GiB | 0 |
| FX12-6mds_v2 | 6 | 252 GiB | 0 |
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