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
6,660
(All-cores)
2,165
(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
Average Time To Start
61
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-06T09:11:39.583854

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
0.7194 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
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.7222 USD/h 3.611 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
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.768 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 Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.7878 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
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.8272 USD/h 4.136 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
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.8534 USD/h 4.267 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.8534 USD/h 4.267 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.7887 USD/h 4.268 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.8862 USD/h 4.431 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
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.9388 USD/h 4.694 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.9388 USD/h 4.694 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.9518 USD/h 4.759 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
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.965 USD/h 4.825 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.965 USD/h 4.825 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
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
1.0176 USD/h 5.088 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
1.0242 USD/h 5.121 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
1.0242 USD/h 5.121 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
1.1044 USD/h 5.976 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
1.221 USD/h 6.105 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
1.221 USD/h 6.105 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
1.221 USD/h 6.105 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
1.221 USD/h 6.105 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.1833 USD/h 6.403 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
1.7068 USD/h 8.534 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
51.67

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-intensive server combining high single-core performance, massive RAM-to-CPU density, and fast local NVMe storage for database workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure FX24-6mds_v2 is an x86_64 memory-optimized server featuring 6 vCPUs, 3 physical Intel Xeon 8573C cores at 4.2 GHz, and 504.0 GB of RAM. This configuration provides an exceptional 84.0 GB of memory per core, complemented by a 1417 GB NVMe SSD. In benchmark testing, the server demonstrates top-tier single-core performance, scoring 2362.0 in Geekbench single-core and 2948.0 in text processing, alongside strong single-threaded compression speeds. However, multi-core benchmarks and memory bandwidth fall into average ranges, and LLM inference tasks show weak to poor performance due to the lack of GPU acceleration. This server is highly suited for memory-intensive applications, database operations, and single-threaded text processing workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.74Score
    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) 1,293,285 ops/sec 1,936,298 ops/sec 0.68 50.00% 50.00% -18.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,405,562 ops/sec 11,797,257 ops/sec 0.53 20.00% 20.00% -12.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,482 2,407 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 101,229 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 0.91 10.00% 10.00% -0.94%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,247 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,362

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 7,259

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 12,058
    Compression
    		 117,414
    Encryption
    		 7,085
    Extended Instructions
    		 9,326
    Floating Point Maths
    		 22,613
    Integer Maths
    		 31,883
    Physics
    		 1,516
    Prime Numbers
    		 64
    Single Threaded
    		 3,247
    String Sorting
    		 15,975

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,482
    Database Operations
    		 4,382
    Memory Latency
    		 58
    Memory Read Cached
    		 28,723
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10,594
    Memory Write
    		 9,634

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 271.29 268.33 0.99×
    bitops
    		 166,392 603,436 3.63×
    branch
    		 156,264 725,373 4.64×
    funccall
    		 847.67 3,355 3.96×
    funcret
    		 13,988 66,065 4.72×
    hash
    		 198,824 860,978 4.33×
    intmath
    		 73,321 255,869 3.49×
    nop
    		 295,639 706,262 2.39×
    prime
    		 528,690 1,922,929 3.64×
    rotate
    		 111,319 356,112 3.20×
    str
    		 1,000,251 4,546,760 4.55×
    wcs
    		 767,080 2,795,362 3.64×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 3,789 13,030 3.44×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 917.88 3,690 4.02×
    zlib
    		 56.39 305.94 5.43×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 45,306 169,868 3.75×
    clone
    		 1,452 4,764 3.28×
    context
    		 5,938 29,392 4.95×
    cpu-sched
    		 58.69 388.64 6.62×
    eventfd
    		 34,598 823,058 23.79×
    fault
    		 24,468 77,261 3.16×
    fork
    		 6,557 25,853 3.94×
    getrandom
    		 65,876 294,298 4.47×
    hrtimers
    		 259,434 944,379 3.64×
    mprotect
    		 1,051,178 2,316,141 2.20×
    mtx
    		 32,407,969 234,067,448 7.22×
    munmap
    		 5,125 20,218 3.95×
    null
    		 973,986 4,614,700 4.74×
    pipe
    		 786,272 5,189,826 6.60×
    priv-instr
    		 956,165 3,873,615 4.05×
    resched
    		 2,578,594 638,132 0.25×
    switch
    		 53,316 2,063,519 38.70×
    timermix
    		 270,692 1,309,955 4.84×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 9,269 15,947 1.72×
    tsc
    		 1,019,051 4,675,679 4.59×
    usersyscall
    		 810,463 3,367,797 4.16×
    vdso
    		 119,119,472 525,112,182 4.41×
    vfork
    		 30,529 167,251 5.48×
    x86syscall
    		 11,713,279 59,652,696 5.09×
    yield
    		 6,177,329 6,990,450 1.13×
    zero
    		 6,498,300 32,517,669 5.00×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 18,106 71,430 3.95×
    expmath
    		 3,941 17,197 4.36×
    fma
    		 1,463,449 5,721,543 3.91×
    fp
    		 222.54 1,028 4.62×
    fractal
    		 7.2 31.4 4.36×
    hyperbolic
    		 4,548 19,653 4.32×
    logmath
    		 5,815 27,641 4.75×
    matrix
    		 6,130 19,692 3.21×
    matrix-3d
    		 751.51 2,724 3.62×
    monte-carlo
    		 334.02 1,637 4.90×
    mpfr
    		 1,961 6,856 3.50×
    powmath
    		 2,199 10,014 4.55×
    trig
    		 2,994 11,875 3.97×
    veccmp
    		 28,016 97,302 3.47×
    vecfp
    		 1,726 6,588 3.82×
    vecmath
    		 4,392 18,502 4.21×
    vecshuf
    		 924.54 3,174 3.43×
    vecwide
    		 40,137 146,936 3.66×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 10 35.8 3.58×
    bsearch
    		 322.77 1,197 3.71×
    bubblesort
    		 1.2 4.8 4.00×
    fibsearch
    		 361.52 1,318 3.65×
    heapsort
    		 11.2 45.8 4.09×
    hsearch
    		 9,440 33,677 3.57×
    insertionsort
    		 14.2 38 2.68×
    malloc
    		 3,089,695 17,072,838 5.53×
    mcontend
    		 119.29 1,181 9.90×
    mergesort
    		 34.2 147.4 4.31×
    qsort
    		 24.6 103.6 4.21×
    skiplist
    		 6,111 29,008 4.75×
    tree
    		 2 8.4 4.20×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 388,011 715,981 1.85×
    cachehammer
    		 231,035 1,128,840 4.89×
    cacheline
    		 68.51 365.72 5.34×
    l1cache
    		 1,235 1,395 1.13×
    memcpy
    		 497.54 1,474 2.96×
    memrate
    		 0.13 0.76 5.85×
    memthrash
    		 102.63 291.53 2.84×
    ptr-chase
    		 35,396,219 197,087,948 5.57×
    spinmem
    		 378.59 473.75 1.25×
    stream
    		 6.87 149.69 21.79×
    vm
    		 209,301 292,135 1.40×

    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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