FX8-2ms_v2 by Microsoft Azure

FX8-2ms_v2 is a FXmsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 168 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1635 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
168 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
2,217
(All-cores)
2,162
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_FX8-2ms_v2
Name
FX8-2ms_v2
API Reference
Standard_FX8-2ms_v2
Description
FXmsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
FXmsv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
16
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-04T00:17:49.214028

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1635 USD/h 0.885 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1635 USD/h 0.885 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.194 USD/h 0.885 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1637 USD/h 0.886 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1689 USD/h 0.914 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.18 USD/h 0.974 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1948 USD/h 0.974 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1846 USD/h 1 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1866 USD/h 1.01 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.1915 USD/h 1.036 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.2072 USD/h 1.036 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1963 USD/h 1.062 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1963 USD/h 1.062 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.2124 USD/h 1.062 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1964 USD/h 1.063 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1964 USD/h 1.063 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1979 USD/h 1.071 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.2012 USD/h 1.089 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.2012 USD/h 1.089 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.223 USD/h 1.115 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.2062 USD/h 1.116 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.2062 USD/h 1.116 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.2127 USD/h 1.151 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.2127 USD/h 1.151 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.2127 USD/h 1.151 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.2127 USD/h 1.151 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.2302 USD/h 1.151 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.2302 USD/h 1.151 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.239 USD/h 1.195 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.229 USD/h 1.239 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.2292 USD/h 1.24 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.2292 USD/h 1.24 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2306 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.2338 USD/h 1.265 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.2532 USD/h 1.266 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.2532 USD/h 1.266 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.2373 USD/h 1.284 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.2373 USD/h 1.284 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.2373 USD/h 1.284 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.2373 USD/h 1.284 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.2568 USD/h 1.284 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.2602 USD/h 1.301 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.2602 USD/h 1.301 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.2491 USD/h 1.348 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.2521 USD/h 1.364 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.2744 USD/h 1.372 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.2762 USD/h 1.381 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.2762 USD/h 1.381 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.2979 USD/h 1.612 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.3294 USD/h 1.647 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.3294 USD/h 1.647 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.3294 USD/h 1.647 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.3294 USD/h 1.647 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.3191 USD/h 1.727 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.4604 USD/h 2.302 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
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A specialized virtual machine offering an exceptionally high memory capacity and strong single core performance for memory intensive workloads.

      Memory Optimized

      Microsoft Azure FX8-2ms_v2 is a memory-optimized virtual server from the FXmsv2 family, running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It features an x86_64 architecture powered by a dedicated Intel Xeon 8573C processor with 2 vCPUs, 1 physical core, and a 4.2 GHz clock speed. The server is equipped with 168.0 GB of RAM, providing an exceptional memory-to-core ratio of 84.0 GB per core, with no local storage or GPU resources. Benchmark data indicates top-tier single-core performance, including a Geekbench single-core score of 2348.0 and strong single-threaded gzip compression. However, multi-core performance and memory bandwidth are relatively weak due to the dual-vCPU limit. This configuration is highly cost-efficient for specialized, memory-heavy workloads requiring minimal parallel processing, such as large-scale caching, memory-bound databases, and single-threaded analytical tasks.

      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) 424,569 ops/sec 1,930,206 ops/sec 0.22 50.00% 50.00% -53.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,129,922 ops/sec 11,792,140 ops/sec 0.17 20.00% 20.00% -30.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,108 2,412 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 34,411 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 0.31 10.00% 10.00% -11.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,211 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,348

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,886

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 4,171
      Compression
      		 40,348
      Encryption
      		 2,358
      Extended Instructions
      		 3,010
      Floating Point Maths
      		 7,528
      Integer Maths
      		 10,609
      Physics
      		 518
      Prime Numbers
      		 21
      Single Threaded
      		 3,211
      String Sorting
      		 5,354

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,108
      Database Operations
      		 1,768
      Memory Latency
      		 59
      Memory Read Cached
      		 28,547
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,508
      Memory Write
      		 9,578

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 825.2 825.74 1.00×
      bitops
      		 165,843 200,497 1.21×
      branch
      		 155,855 241,248 1.55×
      funccall
      		 838.72 1,113 1.33×
      funcret
      		 13,919 21,770 1.56×
      hash
      		 197,273 285,857 1.45×
      intmath
      		 73,008 89,317 1.22×
      nop
      		 289,750 234,947 0.81×
      prime
      		 521,536 637,344 1.22×
      rotate
      		 110,569 119,805 1.08×
      str
      		 1,012,629 1,408,051 1.39×
      wcs
      		 768,173 970,242 1.26×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,539 4,333 1.22×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 935.54 1,267 1.35×
      zlib
      		 71.29 110.57 1.55×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 45,455 76,541 1.68×
      clone
      		 1,390 1,929 1.39×
      context
      		 5,900 9,732 1.65×
      cpu-sched
      		 51.85 131.33 2.53×
      eventfd
      		 63,648 261,430 4.11×
      fault
      		 25,671 33,240 1.29×
      fork
      		 7,902 12,299 1.56×
      getrandom
      		 65,084 97,120 1.49×
      hrtimers
      		 199,475 326,165 1.64×
      mprotect
      		 852,128 860,329 1.01×
      mtx
      		 17,720,423 86,351,976 4.87×
      munmap
      		 5,527 8,888 1.61×
      null
      		 962,470 1,526,791 1.59×
      pipe
      		 3,808,774 1,891,957 0.50×
      priv-instr
      		 951,706 1,370,228 1.44×
      resched
      		 457,438 282,412 0.62×
      switch
      		 206,244 618,869 3.00×
      timermix
      		 266,702 432,297 1.62×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 6,693 5,716 0.85×
      tsc
      		 1,011,865 1,548,794 1.53×
      usersyscall
      		 797,505 1,163,704 1.46×
      vdso
      		 118,233,381 173,993,222 1.47×
      vfork
      		 48,882 96,825 1.98×
      x86syscall
      		 11,658,458 19,771,084 1.70×
      yield
      		 1,908,187 2,019,860 1.06×
      zero
      		 6,468,310 10,839,172 1.68×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 17,903 23,716 1.32×
      expmath
      		 3,912 5,701 1.46×
      fma
      		 1,454,893 1,899,086 1.31×
      fp
      		 222.25 351.53 1.58×
      fractal
      		 7.2 10.6 1.47×
      hyperbolic
      		 4,507 6,482 1.44×
      logmath
      		 5,782 9,155 1.58×
      matrix
      		 5,411 6,454 1.19×
      matrix-3d
      		 774.64 957.82 1.24×
      monte-carlo
      		 333.42 549.16 1.65×
      mpfr
      		 1,935 2,291 1.18×
      powmath
      		 2,180 3,308 1.52×
      trig
      		 2,959 3,931 1.33×
      veccmp
      		 27,647 32,139 1.16×
      vecfp
      		 1,719 2,184 1.27×
      vecmath
      		 4,359 6,133 1.41×
      vecshuf
      		 913.8 1,053 1.15×
      vecwide
      		 39,755 48,718 1.23×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 9.8 12 1.22×
      bsearch
      		 320.89 397.57 1.24×
      bubblesort
      		 1.2 1.6 1.33×
      fibsearch
      		 361.8 455.91 1.26×
      heapsort
      		 11.2 15.2 1.36×
      hsearch
      		 9,006 11,183 1.24×
      insertionsort
      		 14.2 12.4 0.87×
      malloc
      		 3,019,560 5,664,351 1.88×
      mcontend
      		 443.91 502.94 1.13×
      mergesort
      		 34 49 1.44×
      qsort
      		 24.4 34.4 1.41×
      skiplist
      		 6,073 9,591 1.58×
      tree
      		 2 2.8 1.40×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 372,757 391,676 1.05×
      cachehammer
      		 230,690 397,330 1.72×
      cacheline
      		 38.52 74.46 1.93×
      l1cache
      		 1,201 472.36 0.39×
      memcpy
      		 491.11 509.36 1.04×
      memrate
      		 0.13 0.26 2.00×
      memthrash
      		 55.91 107.51 1.92×
      ptr-chase
      		 37,585,487 70,012,567 1.86×
      spinmem
      		 321.59 1.2 0.00×
      stream
      		 6.8 17.02 2.50×
      vm
      		 204,727 237,430 1.16×

      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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