FX64-32mds_v2 by Microsoft Azure

FX64-32mds_v2 is a FXmdsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 64 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 32 vCPUs, 1344 GiB of memory and 3.78 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.6176 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
1344 GiB Memory
3.78 TB Storage
Spare SCore
35,523
(All-cores)
2,168
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_FX64-32mds_v2
Name
FX64-32mds_v2
API Reference
Standard_FX64-32mds_v2
API Reference Object
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Description
FXmdsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 64 vCPUs
Family
FXmdsv2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-19T00:28:17.810610

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
1.6176 USD/h 8.753 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
1.6176 USD/h 8.753 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
1.8373 USD/h 8.753 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
1.6179 USD/h 8.755 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
1.6695 USD/h 9.034 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
1.7798 USD/h 9.631 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
1.8259 USD/h 9.891 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
1.8452 USD/h 9.985 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
1.8925 USD/h 10.241 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
1.9411 USD/h 10.504 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
1.9411 USD/h 10.504 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
1.9417 USD/h 10.507 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
1.9417 USD/h 10.507 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
1.9572 USD/h 10.591 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
1.9905 USD/h 10.771 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
1.9905 USD/h 10.771 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
2.0387 USD/h 11.032 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
2.0387 USD/h 11.032 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
2.1028 USD/h 11.379 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
2.1028 USD/h 11.379 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
2.1028 USD/h 11.379 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
2.1034 USD/h 11.382 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
2.2645 USD/h 12.254 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
2.2653 USD/h 12.258 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
2.2653 USD/h 12.258 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
2.2808 USD/h 12.342 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
2.3107 USD/h 12.504 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
2.3457 USD/h 12.693 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
2.3462 USD/h 12.696 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
2.3462 USD/h 12.696 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
2.3462 USD/h 12.696 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
2.4628 USD/h 13.327 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
2.4918 USD/h 13.484 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
2.945 USD/h 15.936 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
3.1553 USD/h 17.074 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
1 TB
Memory Amount Actual
1 TB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    3780 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 3780 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A memory-intensive x86 platform featuring high-capacity RAM, local NVMe SSD storage, and strong single-core processing capabilities.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure FX64-32mds_v2 is a memory-intensive virtual machine featuring a dedicated 32-vCPU Intel Xeon 8573C processor running at 4.2 GHz on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. Built on the x86_64 architecture, it provides 1344.0 GB of RAM and 3780 GB of local NVMe SSD storage. Benchmark results show top-tier single-core CPU, image, and text processing capabilities, alongside strong large-block memory bandwidth. However, database operations and Redis SET operations perform in the average tier, and text generation for large 70B language models is weak. This server is designed for memory-bound workloads, large-scale data decompression, and text or image processing pipelines.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    2.9Score
    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) 7,058,844 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 3.7 50.00% 50.00% +92.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 35,703,366 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 3 20.00% 20.00% +25.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,727 2,417 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 517,393 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 4.7 10.00% 10.00% +17.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,251 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.4 10.00% 10.00% +3.40%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,367

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 18,564

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 52457
    Compression
    		 610547
    Encryption
    		 37599
    Extended Instructions
    		 50483
    Floating Point Maths
    		 120567
    Integer Maths
    		 170160
    Physics
    		 7965
    Prime Numbers
    		 340
    Single Threaded
    		 3251
    String Sorting
    		 84525

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2727
    Database Operations
    		 20191
    Memory Latency
    		 57
    Memory Read Cached
    		 28648
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10828
    Memory Write
    		 10023

    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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