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
2026-11-03T09:14:20.062313

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
0.2398 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
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.2408 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
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.256 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
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.2626 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
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.2758 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
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.2844 USD/h 1.422 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.2844 USD/h 1.422 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.263 USD/h 1.423 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.2954 USD/h 1.477 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
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.313 USD/h 1.565 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.313 USD/h 1.565 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.3172 USD/h 1.586 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
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.3216 USD/h 1.608 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.3216 USD/h 1.608 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
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.3392 USD/h 1.696 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.3414 USD/h 1.707 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.3414 USD/h 1.707 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.3681 USD/h 1.992 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.407 USD/h 2.035 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.407 USD/h 2.035 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.407 USD/h 2.035 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.407 USD/h 2.035 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.3944 USD/h 2.134 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.569 USD/h 2.845 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
50

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
168 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
168 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    472 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 472 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    An extreme memory-to-core ratio server featuring dedicated high-frequency Intel processing and local NVMe SSD storage for memory-bound workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure FX8-2mds_v2 is a highly specialized, memory-intensive virtual machine from the FXmdsv2 family. Powered by a dedicated Intel Xeon 8573C processor running at 4.2 GHz, it provides 1 physical core (2 vCPUs), 168.0 GB of RAM, and 472 GB of local NVMe SSD storage. While its single-core performance is top-tier, as evidenced by a Geekbench single-core score of 2344.0 and strong single-threaded compression benchmarks, its multi-core capabilities are constrained by the dual-vCPU limit. This server is qualitatively cost-efficient for workloads requiring an extreme memory-to-vCPU ratio of 84.0 GB per core without needing massive parallel processing power. It is best suited for memory-heavy, single-threaded applications, caching layers, and database workloads with low concurrency requirements.

    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 1,920,103 ops/sec 0.22 50.00% 50.00% -53.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,124,900 ops/sec 11,744,104 ops/sec 0.17 20.00% 20.00% -30.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,109 2,415 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 33,271 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 0.3 10.00% 10.00% -11.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,207 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,344

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,872

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 4,149
    Compression
    		 40,083
    Encryption
    		 2,339
    Extended Instructions
    		 2,978
    Floating Point Maths
    		 7,519
    Integer Maths
    		 10,601
    Physics
    		 509
    Prime Numbers
    		 21
    Single Threaded
    		 3,207
    String Sorting
    		 5,327

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,109
    Database Operations
    		 1,731
    Memory Latency
    		 59
    Memory Read Cached
    		 28,804
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10,613
    Memory Write
    		 9,534

    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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