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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
2217
(All-cores)
2162
(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
2026-08-05T03:03:46.002886

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
0.1858 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.2979 USD/h 1.612 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.3191 USD/h 1.727 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
    0 GB
    Storages
    • 0 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An ultra-high memory-to-core ratio instance delivering top-tier single-threaded performance for specialized, memory-bound workloads without CPU core overhead.

    Memory Optimized

    Microsoft Azure FX8-2ms_v2 is an x86_64 memory-intensive virtual machine from the FXmsv2 family, running on Microsoft Hyper-V. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8573C processor operating at 4.2 GHz, it features 2 vCPUs (1 physical core) and a massive 168.0 GB of memory, resulting in an extreme 84.0 GB of RAM per core. The instance lacks local storage and GPUs but supports Premium Storage. Performance benchmarks highlight a significant tradeoff: the server achieves top-tier single-core performance (Geekbench single-core score of 2348.0) and strong single-threaded compression, but exhibits weak multi-core and large-block memory bandwidth performance due to its low core count. This configuration is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-bound, low-concurrency workloads, making it highly suitable for specialized in-memory caching, single-threaded data processing, and lightweight database operations requiring substantial memory capacity without high parallel compute overhead.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.305Score
    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 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.222 50.00% 50.00% -52.90%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,129,922 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.183 20.00% 20.00% -28.80%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,108 2,416 0.872 10.00% 10.00% -1.36%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 34,411 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.319 10.00% 10.00% -10.80%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,211 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 1.36 10.00% 10.00% +3.12%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,348

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,886

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 4171
    Compression
    		 40348
    Encryption
    		 2358
    Extended Instructions
    		 3010
    Floating Point Maths
    		 7528
    Integer Maths
    		 10609
    Physics
    		 518
    Prime Numbers
    		 21
    Single Threaded
    		 3211
    String Sorting
    		 5354

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2108
    Database Operations
    		 1768
    Memory Latency
    		 59
    Memory Read Cached
    		 28547
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10508
    Memory Write
    		 9578

    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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    FX16-4ms_v2 4336 GiB0
    FX12-6ms_v2 6252 GiB0
    FX24-6ms_v2 6504 GiB0

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