FX32-16ms_v2 by Microsoft Azure

FX32-16ms_v2 is a FXmsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 672 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.6544 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
672 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
17,763
(All-cores)
2,167
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_FX32-16ms_v2
Name
FX32-16ms_v2
API Reference
Standard_FX32-16ms_v2
Description
FXmsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs
Family
FXmsv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
16
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-25T13:14:46.945636

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.6544 USD/h 3.541 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.6544 USD/h 3.541 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.7433 USD/h 3.541 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.6546 USD/h 3.542 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.6754 USD/h 3.655 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.72 USD/h 3.896 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.7386 USD/h 4.001 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.7464 USD/h 4.039 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.7656 USD/h 4.143 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.7852 USD/h 4.249 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.7852 USD/h 4.249 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.7856 USD/h 4.251 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.7856 USD/h 4.251 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.7919 USD/h 4.285 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.8052 USD/h 4.357 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.8052 USD/h 4.357 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.8248 USD/h 4.463 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.8248 USD/h 4.463 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.8506 USD/h 4.603 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.8506 USD/h 4.603 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.8506 USD/h 4.603 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.851 USD/h 4.605 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.9161 USD/h 4.957 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.9164 USD/h 4.959 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.9164 USD/h 4.959 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.9227 USD/h 4.993 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.9347 USD/h 5.058 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.9489 USD/h 5.135 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.9491 USD/h 5.136 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.9491 USD/h 5.136 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.9491 USD/h 5.136 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.9963 USD/h 5.391 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
1.0081 USD/h 5.455 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
1.1914 USD/h 6.447 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.2764 USD/h 6.907 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
51.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
672 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
672 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      An ultra-high-memory virtual server featuring dedicated high-frequency Intel Xeon processors for demanding in-memory database and enterprise workloads.

      Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

      The Microsoft Azure FX32-16ms_v2 is an x86_64 memory-optimized virtual machine from the FXmsv2 family, running on Microsoft Hyper-V. It is powered by an Intel Xeon 8573C processor operating at 4.2 GHz with 16 dedicated vCPUs and a 260 MB L3 cache. A key feature is its massive memory capacity of 672.0 GB, providing 42.0 GB of RAM per core, while local storage and GPUs are absent. Benchmarks highlight top-tier single-core performance, with a Geekbench single-core score of 2336.0 and strong single-threaded compression speeds. Supported by AVX-512 and Intel AMX, it delivers efficient text processing and small-model LLM inference. This server is highly suited for memory-intensive workloads, such as large in-memory databases, enterprise applications, and data caching, where massive memory capacity is required without excessive CPU scaling.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.6Score
      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) 3,417,066 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.8 50.00% 50.00% +34.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 17,108,917 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1.4 20.00% 20.00% +7.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,665 2,416 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 274,235 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 2.5 10.00% 10.00% +9.60%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,248 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,336

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 13,705

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 29,487
      Compression
      		 306,375
      Encryption
      		 18,742
      Extended Instructions
      		 24,906
      Floating Point Maths
      		 60,276
      Integer Maths
      		 85,052
      Physics
      		 4,006
      Prime Numbers
      		 169
      Single Threaded
      		 3,248
      String Sorting
      		 42,654

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,665
      Database Operations
      		 11,178
      Memory Latency
      		 56
      Memory Read Cached
      		 29,636
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,131
      Memory Write
      		 9,539

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 212.63 209.64 0.99×
      bitops
      		 166,462 1,598,987 9.61×
      branch
      		 156,590 1,927,065 12.31×
      funccall
      		 845.7 8,732 10.33×
      funcret
      		 14,174 175,489 12.38×
      hash
      		 198,857 2,304,954 11.59×
      intmath
      		 73,351 695,151 9.48×
      nop
      		 296,422 1,884,841 6.36×
      prime
      		 529,740 5,107,763 9.64×
      rotate
      		 111,422 948,455 8.51×
      str
      		 1,058,757 12,152,477 11.48×
      wcs
      		 743,020 7,785,628 10.48×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,792 34,799 9.18×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 920.43 9,617 10.45×
      zlib
      		 67.87 823.82 12.14×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 42,107 185,947 4.42×
      clone
      		 1,131 9,448 8.35×
      context
      		 5,939 78,366 13.19×
      cpu-sched
      		 63.76 1,027 16.10×
      eventfd
      		 34,367 2,120,782 61.71×
      fault
      		 28,305 109,854 3.88×
      fork
      		 4,443 31,913 7.18×
      getrandom
      		 65,832 784,090 11.91×
      hrtimers
      		 164,261 1,730,115 10.53×
      mprotect
      		 565,518 5,315,253 9.40×
      mtx
      		 33,268,715 479,020,513 14.40×
      munmap
      		 3,721 29,039 7.80×
      null
      		 974,756 12,237,419 12.55×
      pipe
      		 723,785 10,340,783 14.29×
      priv-instr
      		 967,246 9,101,339 9.41×
      resched
      		 7,446,738 1,495,207 0.20×
      switch
      		 42,611 5,417,971 127.15×
      timermix
      		 272,599 3,424,285 12.56×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 6,916 35,631 5.15×
      tsc
      		 1,019,373 12,432,555 12.20×
      usersyscall
      		 809,616 8,106,306 10.01×
      vdso
      		 119,331,725 1,396,574,274 11.70×
      vfork
      		 20,291 160,642 7.92×
      x86syscall
      		 11,729,829 158,099,866 13.48×
      yield
      		 20,467,786 21,204,942 1.04×
      zero
      		 6,514,455 86,926,259 13.34×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 18,125 188,078 10.38×
      expmath
      		 3,940 45,903 11.65×
      fma
      		 1,463,871 15,235,673 10.41×
      fp
      		 244.41 2,695 11.03×
      fractal
      		 7.2 83.86 11.65×
      hyperbolic
      		 4,551 52,432 11.52×
      logmath
      		 5,822 73,677 12.66×
      matrix
      		 5,543 51,227 9.24×
      matrix-3d
      		 747.75 7,336 9.81×
      monte-carlo
      		 334.06 4,421 13.23×
      mpfr
      		 1,965 18,232 9.28×
      powmath
      		 2,198 26,586 12.10×
      trig
      		 2,996 31,584 10.54×
      veccmp
      		 27,996 260,240 9.30×
      vecfp
      		 1,731 17,706 10.23×
      vecmath
      		 4,391 49,445 11.26×
      vecshuf
      		 924.69 8,466 9.16×
      vecwide
      		 40,133 394,878 9.84×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 10 95.2 9.52×
      bsearch
      		 322.67 3,174 9.84×
      bubblesort
      		 1.2 12.8 10.67×
      fibsearch
      		 347.51 3,398 9.78×
      heapsort
      		 11.2 122.2 10.91×
      hsearch
      		 9,550 89,953 9.42×
      insertionsort
      		 14.4 103 7.15×
      malloc
      		 3,135,236 21,941,378 7.00×
      mcontend
      		 60.15 2,692 44.76×
      mergesort
      		 34.2 392.59 11.48×
      qsort
      		 24.2 276.59 11.43×
      skiplist
      		 6,113 77,457 12.67×
      tree
      		 2 22.4 11.20×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 280,482 1,783,782 6.36×
      cachehammer
      		 213,006 2,079,963 9.76×
      cacheline
      		 43.74 675.75 15.45×
      l1cache
      		 1,225 3,780 3.09×
      memcpy
      		 497.68 3,887 7.81×
      memrate
      		 0.13 2.05 15.77×
      memthrash
      		 62.17 494.95 7.96×
      ptr-chase
      		 37,501,187 542,664,048 14.47×
      spinmem
      		 380.79 1,025 2.69×
      stream
      		 3.33 517.5 155.41×
      vm
      		 206,948 294,299 1.42×

      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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