FX32ms_v2 by Microsoft Azure

FX32ms_v2 is a FXmsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 32 vCPUs, 672 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.6544 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
672 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
35,528
(All-cores)
2,168
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_FX32ms_v2
Name
FX32ms_v2
API Reference
Standard_FX32ms_v2
Description
FXmsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs
Family
FXmsv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
57
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-25T01:32:09.344777

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
32
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
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
768 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
32 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
16.4
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 high-frequency, memory-dense virtual machine featuring 672 GB of RAM and dedicated Intel Xeon processors for demanding enterprise workloads.

      Memory OptimizedCompute Optimized

      Microsoft Azure FX32ms_v2 is a memory-intensive virtual machine featuring an Intel Xeon 8573C processor with 32 dedicated vCPUs, 16 physical cores, and a high clock speed of 4.2 GHz. It is equipped with 672.0 GB of RAM, providing a substantial 21.0 GB of memory per core, though it lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Built on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this x86_64 server delivers top-tier single-core, image processing, and text processing performance in Geekbench benchmarks, alongside strong large-block memory bandwidth. While it exhibits average performance in database operations and weak text generation speeds for large 70B language models, its high memory density and advanced CPU instructions like Intel AMX make it highly suitable for memory-bound enterprise workloads, in-memory databases, and heavy data processing tasks that do not require local NVMe storage.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      2.7Score
      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) 6,640,687 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 3.5 50.00% 50.00% +87.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 34,036,618 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 2.8 20.00% 20.00% +23.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,513 2,416 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 506,292 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 4.6 10.00% 10.00% +16.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,249 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,309

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 18,624

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 52,509
      Compression
      		 617,540
      Encryption
      		 37,479
      Extended Instructions
      		 50,319
      Floating Point Maths
      		 120,558
      Integer Maths
      		 170,142
      Physics
      		 7,894
      Prime Numbers
      		 341
      Single Threaded
      		 3,249
      String Sorting
      		 84,586

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,513
      Database Operations
      		 20,148
      Memory Latency
      		 66
      Memory Read Cached
      		 29,076
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,853
      Memory Write
      		 9,234

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 192.71 233.18 1.21×
      bitops
      		 166,592 3,215,297 19.30×
      branch
      		 155,849 3,821,786 24.52×
      funccall
      		 844.68 17,730 20.99×
      funcret
      		 14,061 352,598 25.08×
      hash
      		 198,613 4,582,122 23.07×
      intmath
      		 73,146 1,385,815 18.95×
      nop
      		 295,647 3,785,396 12.80×
      prime
      		 529,569 10,234,574 19.33×
      rotate
      		 111,472 1,898,337 17.03×
      str
      		 1,018,865 24,233,804 23.79×
      wcs
      		 733,077 15,692,511 21.41×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,796 69,565 18.33×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 920.09 19,423 21.11×
      zlib
      		 69.66 1,713 24.59×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 37,701 187,135 4.96×
      clone
      		 1,144 16,937 14.81×
      context
      		 5,962 156,679 26.28×
      cpu-sched
      		 67.48 2,073 30.72×
      eventfd
      		 36,464 1,235,698 33.89×
      fault
      		 23,405 168,135 7.18×
      fork
      		 6,255 46,683 7.46×
      getrandom
      		 65,705 1,568,819 23.88×
      hrtimers
      		 638,198 3,463,279 5.43×
      mprotect
      		 560,343 10,929,107 19.50×
      mtx
      		 31,541,327 1,036,883,562 32.87×
      munmap
      		 4,961 42,915 8.65×
      null
      		 971,312 24,146,071 24.86×
      pipe
      		 715,757 20,387,462 28.48×
      priv-instr
      		 969,430 15,095,536 15.57×
      resched
      		 9,952,002 2,364,254 0.24×
      switch
      		 39,918 10,894,272 272.91×
      timermix
      		 271,033 6,722,928 24.80×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 7,063 61,514 8.71×
      tsc
      		 1,020,406 24,572,083 24.08×
      usersyscall
      		 802,384 14,384,794 17.93×
      vdso
      		 119,377,714 2,804,170,339 23.49×
      vfork
      		 25,444 165,073 6.49×
      x86syscall
      		 11,716,659 317,506,209 27.10×
      yield
      		 55,406,991 47,688,863 0.86×
      zero
      		 6,515,423 167,273,632 25.67×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 18,115 373,117 20.60×
      expmath
      		 3,940 90,616 23.00×
      fma
      		 1,461,536 30,385,657 20.79×
      fp
      		 232.8 5,468 23.49×
      fractal
      		 7.2 167.46 23.26×
      hyperbolic
      		 4,547 104,216 22.92×
      logmath
      		 5,822 147,222 25.29×
      matrix
      		 5,433 111,210 20.47×
      matrix-3d
      		 754.22 10,511 13.94×
      monte-carlo
      		 334.03 8,724 26.12×
      mpfr
      		 1,964 35,756 18.21×
      powmath
      		 2,201 52,952 24.05×
      trig
      		 2,998 63,166 21.07×
      veccmp
      		 28,053 520,686 18.56×
      vecfp
      		 1,729 35,265 20.40×
      vecmath
      		 4,388 98,340 22.41×
      vecshuf
      		 925.41 16,791 18.14×
      vecwide
      		 40,163 778,804 19.39×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 10 188.39 18.84×
      bsearch
      		 322.89 6,683 20.70×
      bubblesort
      		 1.2 25.2 21.00×
      fibsearch
      		 345.52 6,693 19.37×
      heapsort
      		 11.2 245.19 21.89×
      hsearch
      		 9,430 184,465 19.56×
      insertionsort
      		 14.4 203.8 14.15×
      malloc
      		 2,523,339 31,670,403 12.55×
      mcontend
      		 62.36 5,503 88.24×
      mergesort
      		 34.4 788.98 22.94×
      qsort
      		 24.6 546.8 22.23×
      skiplist
      		 6,107 154,291 25.26×
      tree
      		 2 44 22.00×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 257,112 3,187,639 12.40×
      cachehammer
      		 122,794 3,511,808 28.60×
      cacheline
      		 43.92 2,848 64.85×
      l1cache
      		 1,222 7,705 6.30×
      memcpy
      		 496.79 7,857 15.82×
      memrate
      		 - 1.68 -
      memthrash
      		 103.25 762.91 7.39×
      ptr-chase
      		 37,132,413 659,393,563 17.76×
      spinmem
      		 381.78 1,614 4.23×
      stream
      		 2.36 919.11 389.45×
      vm
      		 190,565 296,278 1.55×

      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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