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G2 by Microsoft Azure

G2 is a G family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 56 GiB of memory and 786 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1623 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
56 GiB Memory
786 GB Storage
Spare SCore
3146
(All-cores)
891
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_G2
Name
G2
API Reference
Standard_G2
Description
G family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs
Family
G
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
18
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-19T20:54:25.064287

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1623 USD/h 0.878 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1789 USD/h 0.968 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.3705 USD/h 0.968 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1813 USD/h 0.981 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2033 USD/h 1.1 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.378 USD/h 1.1 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.2127 USD/h 1.151 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.2255 USD/h 1.22 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.2359 USD/h 1.276 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.2439 USD/h 1.32 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.2587 USD/h 1.4 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2698B v3
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
192 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
5 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
48 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, cpuid, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, pti, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, xsaveopt, md_clear
Ecpus
3.5
Scalability
87.5

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A memory-dense virtual machine featuring substantial local storage and dedicated Intel cores for memory-heavy, moderate-compute workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure G2 is a G-family virtual machine configured with an Intel Xeon E5-2698B v3 processor on the x86_64 architecture. Managed by the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, it provides 4 dedicated physical cores and 4 vCPUs running at 2.0 GHz. The instance is characterized by a high memory-to-vCPU ratio, offering 56.0 GB of RAM alongside 786 GB of local storage. Benchmark data reveals limited CPU performance, with single-core and multi-core processing metrics falling into the lower 10% to 25% percentiles, while memory performance registers in the average range. Lacking a GPU, the G2 is not designed for acceleration tasks. It is best suited for memory-intensive workloads with moderate compute demands, such as database hosting, caching layers, and legacy enterprise applications requiring substantial memory capacity and local storage.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.312Score
    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) 426,807 ops/sec 1,895,870 ops/sec 0.225 50.00% 50.00% -52.60%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,125,611 ops/sec 11,503,938 ops/sec 0.272 20.00% 20.00% -22.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,927 2,410 0.799 10.00% 10.00% -2.22%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 36,646 MB/sec 107,331 MB/sec 0.341 10.00% 10.00% -10.20%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,801 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.762 10.00% 10.00% -2.68%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,074

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 3,228

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		4670
    Compression
    		66107
    Encryption
    		1172
    Extended Instructions
    		4041
    Floating Point Maths
    		9767
    Integer Maths
    		12698
    Physics
    		681
    Prime Numbers
    		49
    Single Threaded
    		1801
    String Sorting
    		9168

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		1927
    Database Operations
    		2352
    Memory Latency
    		66
    Memory Read Cached
    		20197
    Memory Read Uncached
    		8930
    Memory Write
    		7524

    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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    G5 32448 GiB0

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