FX8-2mds_v2 by Microsoft Azure

FX8-2mds_v2 is a FXmdsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 168 GiB of memory and 472 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2022 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
168 GiB Memory
472 GB Storage
Spare SCore
2,214
(All-cores)
2,160
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_FX8-2mds_v2
Name
FX8-2mds_v2
API Reference
Standard_FX8-2mds_v2
Description
FXmdsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
FXmdsv2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-19T09:49:21.950452

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2022 USD/h 1.094 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.2022 USD/h 1.094 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.2022 USD/h 1.094 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2296 USD/h 1.094 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.2086 USD/h 1.129 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.2225 USD/h 1.204 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2282 USD/h 1.236 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.2306 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.2365 USD/h 1.28 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2426 USD/h 1.313 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2426 USD/h 1.313 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.2426 USD/h 1.313 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.2426 USD/h 1.313 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.2447 USD/h 1.324 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.2487 USD/h 1.346 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.2487 USD/h 1.346 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.2548 USD/h 1.379 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.2548 USD/h 1.379 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.2628 USD/h 1.422 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.2628 USD/h 1.422 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.2628 USD/h 1.422 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.263 USD/h 1.423 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.2831 USD/h 1.532 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.2831 USD/h 1.532 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.2831 USD/h 1.532 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2851 USD/h 1.543 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.2888 USD/h 1.563 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.2933 USD/h 1.587 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.2933 USD/h 1.587 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.2933 USD/h 1.587 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.2933 USD/h 1.587 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.3079 USD/h 1.666 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.3114 USD/h 1.685 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.3681 USD/h 1.992 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.3944 USD/h 2.134 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
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
48 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
260 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
260 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
1
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
168 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
168 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    472 GB
    Storages
    • 0 GB ssd (temp disk)
    • 472 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A highly specialized memory-optimized instance combining exceptional single-core clock speeds with an extreme memory-to-vCPU ratio and local storage.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure FX8-2mds_v2 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the FXmdsv2 family, featuring 2 vCPUs across 1 physical Intel Xeon 8573C core running at 4.2 GHz. It is equipped with 168.0 GB of RAM, providing an exceptional 84.0 GB of memory per core, alongside 472 GB of local storage. Benchmarks reveal a stark contrast in performance: single-core execution is highly competitive, with Geekbench single-core scores in the top 10% and single-threaded compression in the top 25%. Conversely, multi-core performance and memory bandwidth are limited, with multi-core stress-ng and large-block read bandwidth falling into the bottom 10%. This resource profile represents a qualitative tradeoff, offering massive memory density for memory-bound, single-threaded tasks while sacrificing parallel processing power. It is best suited for memory-intensive workloads with low parallel compute requirements, such as specialized caching layers or memory-bound single-threaded applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.3Score
    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) 419,002 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 0.218 50.00% 50.00% -53.30%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,124,900 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 0.181 20.00% 20.00% -29.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,109 2,418 0.872 10.00% 10.00% -1.36%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 33,271 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 0.307 10.00% 10.00% -11.10%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,207 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.36 10.00% 10.00% +3.12%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,344

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,872

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 4149
    Compression
    		 40083
    Encryption
    		 2339
    Extended Instructions
    		 2978
    Floating Point Maths
    		 7519
    Integer Maths
    		 10601
    Physics
    		 509
    Prime Numbers
    		 21
    Single Threaded
    		 3207
    String Sorting
    		 5327

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2109
    Database Operations
    		 1731
    Memory Latency
    		 59
    Memory Read Cached
    		 28804
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10613
    Memory Write
    		 9534

    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

    Alternatives

    Servers of the Same Family

    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    FX2mds_v2 242 GiB0
    FX4-2mds_v2 284 GiB0
    FX4mds_v2 484 GiB0
    FX8-4mds_v2 4168 GiB0
    FX16-4mds_v2 4336 GiB0
    FX12-6mds_v2 6252 GiB0
    FX24-6mds_v2 6504 GiB0

    Similar Servers

    INSTANCEVENDORvCPUsMEMORYGPUs

    FX8-2mds_v2 FAQs