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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
17763
(All-cores)
2167
(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
2026-07-27T03:02:49.291175

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
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
    0 GB
    Storages
    • 0 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A high-frequency, memory-intensive virtual server featuring massive RAM-to-core ratios and top-tier single-core processing performance for demanding enterprise workloads.

    Memory OptimizedCompute Optimized

    Microsoft Azure FX32-16ms_v2 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the FXmsv2 family, running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It features an Intel Xeon 8573C processor with 8 physical cores and 16 vCPUs operating at a high clock speed of 4.2 GHz. The server is equipped with an extensive 672.0 GB of RAM, providing 42.0 GB of memory per core, though it lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks highlight top-tier single-core and text processing capabilities, alongside strong memory write bandwidth and single-threaded decompression speeds. This hardware profile is highly efficient for memory-intensive applications, in-memory databases, and workloads requiring high single-core compute performance coupled with massive memory capacity.

    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) 3,417,066 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 1.8 50.00% 50.00% +34.20%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 17,108,917 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 1.48 20.00% 20.00% +8.16%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,665 2,411 1.11 10.00% 10.00% +1.05%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 274,235 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 2.55 10.00% 10.00% +9.81%
    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: 2,336

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 13,705

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 29487
    Compression
    		 306375
    Encryption
    		 18742
    Extended Instructions
    		 24906
    Floating Point Maths
    		 60276
    Integer Maths
    		 85052
    Physics
    		 4006
    Prime Numbers
    		 169
    Single Threaded
    		 3248
    String Sorting
    		 42654

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2665
    Database Operations
    		 11178
    Memory Latency
    		 56
    Memory Read Cached
    		 29636
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10131
    Memory Write
    		 9539

    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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    FX4ms_v2 484 GiB0
    FX8-4ms_v2 4168 GiB0
    FX16-4ms_v2 4336 GiB0
    FX12-6ms_v2 6252 GiB0

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