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FX32-16mds_v2 by Microsoft Azure

FX32-16mds_v2 is a FXmdsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 672 GiB of memory and 1.89 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.8089 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
672 GiB Memory
1.89 TB Storage
Spare SCore
17759
(All-cores)
2168
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_FX32-16mds_v2
Name
FX32-16mds_v2
API Reference
Standard_FX32-16mds_v2
Description
FXmdsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs
Family
FXmdsv2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-25T22:39:29.726558

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.8089 USD/h 4.377 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.8089 USD/h 4.377 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.9187 USD/h 4.377 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.8091 USD/h 4.378 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.8347 USD/h 4.517 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.89 USD/h 4.816 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.913 USD/h 4.946 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.9225 USD/h 4.992 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.9464 USD/h 5.121 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.9706 USD/h 5.252 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.9706 USD/h 5.252 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.9708 USD/h 5.253 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.9708 USD/h 5.253 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.9787 USD/h 5.296 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.9951 USD/h 5.385 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.9951 USD/h 5.385 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
1.0194 USD/h 5.516 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
1.0194 USD/h 5.516 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
1.0515 USD/h 5.69 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
1.0515 USD/h 5.69 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
1.0515 USD/h 5.69 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
1.0517 USD/h 5.691 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
1.1323 USD/h 6.127 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
1.1326 USD/h 6.129 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
1.1326 USD/h 6.129 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
1.1404 USD/h 6.171 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
1.1554 USD/h 6.252 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
1.1727 USD/h 6.346 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
1.1731 USD/h 6.348 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
1.1731 USD/h 6.348 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
1.1731 USD/h 6.348 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
1.2313 USD/h 6.663 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
1.2459 USD/h 6.742 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
1.4725 USD/h 7.968 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.5776 USD/h 8.537 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
520 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
672 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
672 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    1890 GB
    Storages
    • 0 GB ssd (temp disk)
    • 1890 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A high-frequency, memory-intensive server featuring exceptional memory-to-core density and top-tier single-core performance for demanding database workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure FX32-16mds_v2 is a memory-optimized x86_64 server from the FXmdsv2 family, running on Microsoft Hyper-V. It features 16 dedicated vCPUs across 8 physical Intel Xeon 8573C cores operating at 4.2 GHz, paired with 672.0 GB of RAM and 1890 GB of local storage. The server exhibits strong single-core performance, with Geekbench single-core and text processing scores in the top 10% tier, alongside strong single-threaded gzip compression and large-block memory write speeds. Multi-core benchmarks, including Geekbench multi-core and stress-ng, align with average tier performance. Lacking a GPU, this configuration is tailored for memory-intensive, single-thread-heavy workloads. It is highly suited for large-scale in-memory databases, enterprise application hosting, and data processing tasks that demand substantial memory capacity per core without requiring massive parallel CPU scaling.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.66Score
    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) 3,396,420 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 1.79 50.00% 50.00% +33.80%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 17,147,077 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 1.49 20.00% 20.00% +8.30%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,697 2,411 1.12 10.00% 10.00% +1.14%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 276,573 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 2.58 10.00% 10.00% +9.94%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,248 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.37 10.00% 10.00% +3.20%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,315

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 13,710

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 29536
    Compression
    		 310473
    Encryption
    		 18847
    Extended Instructions
    		 24569
    Floating Point Maths
    		 60293
    Integer Maths
    		 85060
    Physics
    		 3997
    Prime Numbers
    		 170
    Single Threaded
    		 3248
    String Sorting
    		 42615

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2697
    Database Operations
    		 11260
    Memory Latency
    		 56
    Memory Read Cached
    		 28674
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10732
    Memory Write
    		 9880

    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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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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    FX4mds_v2 484 GiB0
    FX8-4mds_v2 4168 GiB0
    FX16-4mds_v2 4336 GiB0
    FX12-6mds_v2 6252 GiB0

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