FX96ms_v2 by Microsoft Azure

FX96ms_v2 is a FXmsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 96 vCPUs, 1832 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.9631 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
1832 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
97,908
(All-cores)
2,169
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_FX96ms_v2
Name
FX96ms_v2
API Reference
Standard_FX96ms_v2
Description
FXmsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs
Family
FXmsv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
21
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-24T11:47:00.100540

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
1.9631 USD/h 10.623 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
1.9631 USD/h 10.623 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
2.2298 USD/h 10.623 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
1.9637 USD/h 10.626 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
2.0261 USD/h 10.964 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
2.1601 USD/h 11.689 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
2.2159 USD/h 12.004 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
2.2394 USD/h 12.118 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
2.2969 USD/h 12.429 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
2.3558 USD/h 12.748 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
2.3558 USD/h 12.748 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
2.3566 USD/h 12.752 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
2.3566 USD/h 12.752 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
2.3754 USD/h 12.854 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
2.4157 USD/h 13.072 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
2.4157 USD/h 13.072 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
2.4743 USD/h 13.389 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
2.4743 USD/h 13.389 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
2.5521 USD/h 13.81 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
2.5521 USD/h 13.81 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
2.5521 USD/h 13.81 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
2.5528 USD/h 13.814 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
2.7483 USD/h 14.872 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
2.7493 USD/h 14.877 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
2.7493 USD/h 14.877 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
2.7681 USD/h 14.979 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
2.8043 USD/h 15.175 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
2.8467 USD/h 15.404 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
2.8476 USD/h 15.409 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
2.8476 USD/h 15.409 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
2.8476 USD/h 15.409 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
2.989 USD/h 16.174 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
3.0243 USD/h 16.365 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
3.574 USD/h 19.34 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
3.8294 USD/h 20.722 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
96
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
48
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
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
96 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
45.1
Scalability
46.98

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
2 TB
Memory Amount Actual
2 TB
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

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A high-frequency, memory-intensive virtual machine engineered for demanding database operations, in-memory caching, and heavy multi-core computational workloads.

      Memory OptimizedCompute OptimizedStorage & Database

      Microsoft Azure FX96ms_v2 is a memory-intensive virtual machine featuring 96 dedicated vCPUs and 48 physical cores powered by an Intel Xeon 8573C processor running at 4.2 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture under Microsoft Hyper-V, this instance is equipped with 1832.0 GB of RAM, providing a high memory-to-core ratio of 19.08 GB. While it lacks local storage and GPUs, it is premium storage capable. Benchmarks indicate top-tier performance, particularly in memory bandwidth, database operations, and multi-core CPU execution, supported by advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and AMX. The FX96ms_v2 is engineered for demanding, memory-heavy enterprise workloads, making it highly suitable for large-scale database management, in-memory data structures, and complex analytical processing.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      5.8Score
      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) 18,376,318 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 9.5 50.00% 50.00% +210.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 95,514,597 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 8 20.00% 20.00% +52.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,691 2,416 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 616,423 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 5.6 10.00% 10.00% +19.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,255 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.4 10.00% 10.00% +3.40%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,349

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 22,291

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 103,969
      Compression
      		 1,681,008
      Encryption
      		 103,500
      Extended Instructions
      		 138,937
      Floating Point Maths
      		 333,404
      Integer Maths
      		 470,459
      Physics
      		 19,366
      Prime Numbers
      		 969
      Single Threaded
      		 3,255
      String Sorting
      		 231,461

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,691
      Database Operations
      		 36,942
      Memory Latency
      		 58
      Memory Read Cached
      		 28,861
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,361
      Memory Write
      		 9,822

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 208.88 128.47 0.62×
      bitops
      		 164,027 8,825,165 53.80×
      branch
      		 156,225 10,663,587 68.26×
      funccall
      		 840.15 47,660 56.73×
      funcret
      		 13,763 967,466 70.30×
      hash
      		 198,293 12,460,686 62.84×
      intmath
      		 71,915 3,715,612 51.67×
      nop
      		 292,903 10,212,479 34.87×
      prime
      		 526,995 28,288,366 53.68×
      rotate
      		 111,404 5,221,314 46.87×
      str
      		 1,022,807 66,863,165 65.37×
      wcs
      		 789,520 41,712,255 52.83×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,796 192,608 50.74×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 895.51 51,859 57.91×
      zlib
      		 73.96 4,648 62.85×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 29,492 177,621 6.02×
      clone
      		 1,451 32,619 22.48×
      context
      		 5,952 432,735 72.70×
      cpu-sched
      		 61.65 6,238 101.19×
      eventfd
      		 36,116 2,441,923 67.61×
      fault
      		 24,596 187,825 7.64×
      fork
      		 5,691 52,924 9.30×
      getrandom
      		 65,445 4,213,542 64.38×
      hrtimers
      		 331,535 9,558,820 28.83×
      mprotect
      		 602,705 19,501,914 32.36×
      mtx
      		 31,413,311 2,681,582,105 85.36×
      munmap
      		 4,396 59,063 13.44×
      null
      		 966,622 65,499,122 67.76×
      pipe
      		 778,572 66,310,191 85.17×
      priv-instr
      		 958,613 14,233,171 14.85×
      resched
      		 11,034,948 8,689,718 0.79×
      switch
      		 47,502 17,739,157 373.44×
      timermix
      		 290,476 18,390,636 63.31×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 8,539 161,304 18.89×
      tsc
      		 1,012,860 68,638,424 67.77×
      usersyscall
      		 801,452 14,290,826 17.83×
      vdso
      		 118,544,676 7,728,359,269 65.19×
      vfork
      		 25,810 157,796 6.11×
      x86syscall
      		 11,705,272 878,442,333 75.05×
      yield
      		 131,494,816 144,068,999 1.10×
      zero
      		 6,454,645 473,821,853 73.41×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 17,958 1,004,978 55.96×
      expmath
      		 3,935 251,796 63.98×
      fma
      		 1,446,207 82,242,296 56.87×
      fp
      		 225.16 14,723 65.39×
      fractal
      		 7.2 451.65 62.73×
      hyperbolic
      		 4,515 283,054 62.69×
      logmath
      		 5,763 398,686 69.18×
      matrix
      		 6,385 300,869 47.12×
      matrix-3d
      		 743.48 16,774 22.56×
      monte-carlo
      		 333.31 22,023 66.07×
      mpfr
      		 1,931 97,938 50.72×
      powmath
      		 2,194 143,709 65.51×
      trig
      		 2,971 173,777 58.50×
      veccmp
      		 27,759 1,434,353 51.67×
      vecfp
      		 1,724 97,242 56.40×
      vecmath
      		 4,359 272,717 62.57×
      vecshuf
      		 922.89 46,709 50.61×
      vecwide
      		 40,095 2,204,353 54.98×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 10 518.99 51.90×
      bsearch
      		 319.48 19,529 61.13×
      bubblesort
      		 1.2 57.6 48.00×
      fibsearch
      		 341.19 17,650 51.73×
      heapsort
      		 11.2 657.59 58.71×
      hsearch
      		 9,494 499,676 52.63×
      insertionsort
      		 14.2 541.2 38.11×
      malloc
      		 3,095,219 81,497,413 26.33×
      mcontend
      		 62.1 15,933 256.56×
      mergesort
      		 34.2 2,127 62.20×
      qsort
      		 24.4 1,528 62.64×
      skiplist
      		 6,072 425,753 70.12×
      tree
      		 2 114.99 57.49×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 229,140 9,602,745 41.91×
      cachehammer
      		 218,636 7,946,974 36.35×
      cacheline
      		 37.97 3,431 90.35×
      l1cache
      		 1,229 18,865 15.34×
      memcpy
      		 496 21,356 43.06×
      memrate
      		 0.13 10.99 84.54×
      memthrash
      		 209.19 1,818 8.69×
      ptr-chase
      		 36,676,574 1,028,770,528 28.05×
      spinmem
      		 428.59 1,802 4.20×
      stream
      		 3.23 7,384 2285.96×
      vm
      		 204,778 307,586 1.50×

      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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