FX2mds_v2 by Microsoft Azure

FX2mds_v2 is a FXmdsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 42 GiB of memory and 118 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0506 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
42 GiB Memory
118 GB Storage
Spare SCore
2,216
(All-cores)
2,160
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_FX2mds_v2
Name
FX2mds_v2
API Reference
Standard_FX2mds_v2
Description
FXmdsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs
Family
FXmdsv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
28
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-04T00:17:49.212696

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0506 USD/h 0.274 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0506 USD/h 0.274 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0506 USD/h 0.274 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0601 USD/h 0.274 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0521 USD/h 0.282 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0556 USD/h 0.301 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0602 USD/h 0.301 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.057 USD/h 0.309 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0577 USD/h 0.312 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0591 USD/h 0.32 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.064 USD/h 0.32 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0606 USD/h 0.328 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0606 USD/h 0.328 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0606 USD/h 0.328 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0606 USD/h 0.328 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0656 USD/h 0.328 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0612 USD/h 0.331 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0623 USD/h 0.337 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0623 USD/h 0.337 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0638 USD/h 0.345 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0638 USD/h 0.345 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.069 USD/h 0.345 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0658 USD/h 0.356 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0658 USD/h 0.356 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0658 USD/h 0.356 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0658 USD/h 0.356 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0712 USD/h 0.356 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0712 USD/h 0.356 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0738 USD/h 0.369 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.0708 USD/h 0.383 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0708 USD/h 0.383 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0708 USD/h 0.383 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0713 USD/h 0.386 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0723 USD/h 0.391 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0782 USD/h 0.391 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0782 USD/h 0.391 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0734 USD/h 0.397 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0734 USD/h 0.397 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0734 USD/h 0.397 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0734 USD/h 0.397 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0794 USD/h 0.397 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0804 USD/h 0.402 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0804 USD/h 0.402 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0769 USD/h 0.416 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0778 USD/h 0.421 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0848 USD/h 0.424 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0854 USD/h 0.427 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0854 USD/h 0.427 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.092 USD/h 0.498 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.1018 USD/h 0.509 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.1018 USD/h 0.509 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.1018 USD/h 0.509 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.1018 USD/h 0.509 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0987 USD/h 0.534 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.1422 USD/h 0.711 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
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
48 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 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
1
Scalability
50

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
42 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
42 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    118 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 118 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 virtual machine combining high single-core clock speeds with a dense memory footprint and local NVMe SSD storage.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure FX2mds_v2 is a memory-intensive virtual machine powered by a dedicated 4.2 GHz Intel Xeon 8573C processor with 2 vCPUs on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It features a high memory-to-core ratio with 42.0 GB of RAM and includes 118 GB of local NVMe SSD storage. Benchmarks indicate top-tier single-core performance, highlighted by strong single-threaded compression and decompression results, though multi-core and memory bandwidth metrics are comparatively weak due to the low core count. This server is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-heavy, single-threaded operations, making it suitable for lightweight database tasks, caching, and text processing workloads that require a substantial memory footprint without demanding high parallel compute power.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.3Score
    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) 420,293 ops/sec 1,930,206 ops/sec 0.22 50.00% 50.00% -53.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,139,741 ops/sec 11,792,140 ops/sec 0.17 20.00% 20.00% -30.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,119 2,412 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 34,941 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 0.32 10.00% 10.00% -11.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,207 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,355

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,903

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 4,174
    Compression
    		 40,653
    Encryption
    		 2,326
    Extended Instructions
    		 2,968
    Floating Point Maths
    		 7,524
    Integer Maths
    		 10,603
    Physics
    		 524
    Prime Numbers
    		 22
    Single Threaded
    		 3,207
    String Sorting
    		 5,426

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,119
    Database Operations
    		 1,796
    Memory Latency
    		 56
    Memory Read Cached
    		 28,910
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10,509
    Memory Write
    		 9,709

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 825.83 826.63 1.00×
    bitops
    		 165,629 200,565 1.21×
    branch
    		 154,810 240,999 1.56×
    funccall
    		 839.77 1,109 1.32×
    funcret
    		 13,912 22,235 1.60×
    hash
    		 197,099 286,387 1.45×
    intmath
    		 72,996 89,695 1.23×
    nop
    		 290,398 234,998 0.81×
    prime
    		 521,816 636,591 1.22×
    rotate
    		 110,605 119,446 1.08×
    str
    		 945,256 1,435,247 1.52×
    wcs
    		 768,385 966,607 1.26×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 3,728 4,335 1.16×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 936.77 1,262 1.35×
    zlib
    		 53.3 93.73 1.76×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 45,081 75,612 1.68×
    clone
    		 1,367 1,868 1.37×
    context
    		 5,899 9,729 1.65×
    cpu-sched
    		 66.15 136.97 2.07×
    eventfd
    		 65,531 256,326 3.91×
    fault
    		 24,148 33,686 1.39×
    fork
    		 8,215 12,279 1.49×
    getrandom
    		 65,324 97,419 1.49×
    hrtimers
    		 371,233 340,897 0.92×
    mprotect
    		 852,555 862,110 1.01×
    mtx
    		 18,121,954 86,178,449 4.76×
    munmap
    		 5,923 9,230 1.56×
    null
    		 960,672 1,517,968 1.58×
    pipe
    		 3,770,809 1,853,440 0.49×
    priv-instr
    		 957,731 1,369,672 1.43×
    resched
    		 459,576 311,136 0.68×
    switch
    		 206,839 638,344 3.09×
    timermix
    		 268,497 437,724 1.63×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 6,520 5,712 0.88×
    tsc
    		 1,010,808 1,549,083 1.53×
    usersyscall
    		 801,723 1,169,918 1.46×
    vdso
    		 118,216,246 174,134,077 1.47×
    vfork
    		 50,920 95,985 1.89×
    x86syscall
    		 11,641,891 19,725,231 1.69×
    yield
    		 1,999,786 1,991,077 1.00×
    zero
    		 6,468,423 10,814,667 1.67×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 17,908 23,825 1.33×
    expmath
    		 3,906 5,699 1.46×
    fma
    		 1,451,352 1,898,560 1.31×
    fp
    		 211.77 330.65 1.56×
    fractal
    		 7.2 10.6 1.47×
    hyperbolic
    		 4,505 6,468 1.44×
    logmath
    		 5,782 9,167 1.59×
    matrix
    		 5,645 6,396 1.13×
    matrix-3d
    		 741.3 889.43 1.20×
    monte-carlo
    		 333.54 549.2 1.65×
    mpfr
    		 1,933 2,291 1.19×
    powmath
    		 2,181 3,309 1.52×
    trig
    		 2,959 3,925 1.33×
    veccmp
    		 27,665 32,240 1.17×
    vecfp
    		 1,722 2,189 1.27×
    vecmath
    		 4,358 6,124 1.41×
    vecshuf
    		 912.72 1,053 1.15×
    vecwide
    		 39,757 48,956 1.23×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 9.8 12 1.22×
    bsearch
    		 318.8 394.28 1.24×
    bubblesort
    		 1.2 1.6 1.33×
    fibsearch
    		 361.89 458.52 1.27×
    heapsort
    		 11.2 15.2 1.36×
    hsearch
    		 8,910 11,152 1.25×
    insertionsort
    		 14 12.8 0.91×
    malloc
    		 3,057,247 5,593,788 1.83×
    mcontend
    		 396.08 481.36 1.22×
    mergesort
    		 34 49.2 1.45×
    qsort
    		 24.2 34.4 1.42×
    skiplist
    		 6,068 9,601 1.58×
    tree
    		 2 2.8 1.40×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 367,432 388,670 1.06×
    cachehammer
    		 224,019 381,241 1.70×
    cacheline
    		 36.5 71.1 1.95×
    l1cache
    		 1,211 469.28 0.39×
    memcpy
    		 491.33 511.1 1.04×
    memrate
    		 0.13 0.25 1.92×
    memthrash
    		 76.09 105.49 1.39×
    ptr-chase
    		 35,150,465 65,310,534 1.86×
    spinmem
    		 329.54 175.14 0.53×
    stream
    		 6.54 16.39 2.51×
    vm
    		 205,152 237,907 1.16×

    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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