FX32-8ms_v2 by Microsoft Azure

FX32-8ms_v2 is a FXmsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 672 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.6544 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
672 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
8,881
(All-cores)
2,168
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_FX32-8ms_v2
Name
FX32-8ms_v2
API Reference
Standard_FX32-8ms_v2
Description
FXmsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs
Family
FXmsv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
17
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-25T01:32:09.344709

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
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
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
192 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 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
4.1
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

      A highly specialized memory-intensive server featuring an exceptional RAM-to-CPU ratio and strong single-core performance for demanding in-memory workloads.

      Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

      Microsoft Azure FX32-8ms_v2 is a memory-optimized server powered by a dedicated Intel Xeon 8573C processor with 8 vCPUs and 4 physical cores running at 4.2 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture under Microsoft Hyper-V, it features an exceptionally high memory capacity of 672.0 GB, translating to 84.0 GB per core. The processor includes a 260 MB L3 cache and supports AVX-512 and AMX instructions. While it lacks local storage and GPUs, it is premium storage capable. Benchmarks show top-tier single-core and text processing performance, though multi-core metrics and large-model text generation speeds are average to weak. This server is designed for memory-intensive workloads, in-memory databases, and caching systems requiring massive RAM-to-CPU ratios without the need for high parallel core counts.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.94Score
      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) 1,708,557 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.89 50.00% 50.00% -5.70%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 8,550,881 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.72 20.00% 20.00% -6.40%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,564 2,416 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 135,987 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,246 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,369

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 8,692

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 15,781
      Compression
      		 156,313
      Encryption
      		 9,434
      Extended Instructions
      		 12,278
      Floating Point Maths
      		 30,149
      Integer Maths
      		 42,527
      Physics
      		 2,008
      Prime Numbers
      		 84
      Single Threaded
      		 3,246
      String Sorting
      		 21,431

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,564
      Database Operations
      		 6,031
      Memory Latency
      		 57
      Memory Read Cached
      		 29,051
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,323
      Memory Write
      		 9,335

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 190.13 186.25 0.98×
      bitops
      		 166,464 803,988 4.83×
      branch
      		 156,143 967,645 6.20×
      funccall
      		 845.51 4,492 5.31×
      funcret
      		 14,008 88,036 6.28×
      hash
      		 198,894 1,153,102 5.80×
      intmath
      		 73,293 337,448 4.60×
      nop
      		 295,092 943,294 3.20×
      prime
      		 528,820 2,554,961 4.83×
      rotate
      		 111,295 477,293 4.29×
      str
      		 1,056,301 6,095,784 5.77×
      wcs
      		 785,081 3,891,355 4.96×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,781 17,411 4.60×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 922.43 4,880 5.29×
      zlib
      		 56.86 431.75 7.59×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 44,277 151,364 3.42×
      clone
      		 1,120 5,007 4.47×
      context
      		 5,941 39,203 6.60×
      cpu-sched
      		 57.59 498.13 8.65×
      eventfd
      		 33,531 976,707 29.13×
      fault
      		 24,673 82,140 3.33×
      fork
      		 4,518 21,681 4.80×
      getrandom
      		 65,869 392,087 5.95×
      hrtimers
      		 571,482 1,462,405 2.56×
      mprotect
      		 535,365 2,749,317 5.14×
      mtx
      		 16,184,260 270,286,844 16.70×
      munmap
      		 3,772 18,728 4.96×
      null
      		 968,879 6,114,815 6.31×
      pipe
      		 731,566 6,783,309 9.27×
      priv-instr
      		 963,615 4,831,377 5.01×
      resched
      		 3,322,684 882,473 0.27×
      switch
      		 71,266 2,793,726 39.20×
      timermix
      		 270,272 1,718,638 6.36×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 6,941 15,456 2.23×
      tsc
      		 1,019,271 6,231,900 6.11×
      usersyscall
      		 810,711 4,198,447 5.18×
      vdso
      		 119,036,580 700,224,884 5.88×
      vfork
      		 20,347 120,081 5.90×
      x86syscall
      		 11,717,107 79,527,903 6.79×
      yield
      		 8,852,929 9,702,761 1.10×
      zero
      		 6,503,294 43,133,867 6.63×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 18,115 93,443 5.16×
      expmath
      		 3,944 22,966 5.82×
      fma
      		 1,463,045 7,623,616 5.21×
      fp
      		 227 1,345 5.93×
      fractal
      		 7.2 42.01 5.83×
      hyperbolic
      		 4,544 26,200 5.77×
      logmath
      		 5,818 36,812 6.33×
      matrix
      		 5,490 26,290 4.79×
      matrix-3d
      		 777.54 3,704 4.76×
      monte-carlo
      		 334.03 2,207 6.61×
      mpfr
      		 1,963 9,124 4.65×
      powmath
      		 2,200 13,320 6.05×
      trig
      		 2,989 15,796 5.28×
      veccmp
      		 27,955 130,029 4.65×
      vecfp
      		 1,728 8,769 5.07×
      vecmath
      		 4,388 24,678 5.62×
      vecshuf
      		 924.8 4,233 4.58×
      vecwide
      		 40,083 195,660 4.88×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 10 48 4.80×
      bsearch
      		 322.53 1,600 4.96×
      bubblesort
      		 1.2 6.4 5.33×
      fibsearch
      		 347.88 1,717 4.94×
      heapsort
      		 11.2 61.2 5.46×
      hsearch
      		 9,477 45,092 4.76×
      insertionsort
      		 14.2 51.4 3.62×
      malloc
      		 3,184,115 18,341,679 5.76×
      mcontend
      		 64.88 1,353 20.86×
      mergesort
      		 34.2 196.8 5.75×
      qsort
      		 24.4 137 5.61×
      skiplist
      		 6,047 38,599 6.38×
      tree
      		 2 11.2 5.60×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 278,205 989,487 3.56×
      cachehammer
      		 205,536 1,188,127 5.78×
      cacheline
      		 35.16 327.65 9.32×
      l1cache
      		 1,221 1,871 1.53×
      memcpy
      		 497.68 1,986 3.99×
      memrate
      		 0.13 1.04 8.00×
      memthrash
      		 26.28 282.29 10.74×
      ptr-chase
      		 37,403,109 273,355,712 7.31×
      spinmem
      		 367.39 605.75 1.65×
      stream
      		 3.38 133.69 39.55×
      vm
      		 206,002 292,609 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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