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G4 by Microsoft Azure

G4 is a G family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 224 GiB of memory and 3.15 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.6494 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
224 GiB Memory
3.15 TB Storage
Spare SCore
10267
(All-cores)
855
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_G4
Name
G4
API Reference
Standard_G4
Description
G family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
G
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-03T16:42:34.784984

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.6494 USD/h 3.514 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.7155 USD/h 3.872 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
1.4822 USD/h 3.872 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.7248 USD/h 3.922 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
1.5118 USD/h 4.4 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.8505 USD/h 4.602 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.9018 USD/h 4.88 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.9437 USD/h 5.104 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.9757 USD/h 5.28 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
1.0349 USD/h 5.6 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2698B v3
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
40 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
40 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
12
Scalability
75

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
224 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
224 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    3146 GB
    Storages
    • 3146 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    An x86_64 server combining high memory capacity and substantial local storage for memory-intensive, multi-threaded database and caching workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure G4 is an x86_64 memory-optimized server within the G family, utilizing a dedicated Intel Xeon E5-2698B v3 processor with 16 physical cores and 16 vCPUs. It features 224.0 GB of RAM, providing a high memory-to-core ratio of 14.0 GB per core, alongside 3146 GB of local storage. Running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, the server exhibits a clear performance tradeoff: single-core benchmarks are weak, but multi-core and multi-threaded operations, such as Geekbench multi-core and bzip3 decompression, achieve average tier results. Memory bandwidth is average for cached small blocks but poor for uncached large-block writes. This resource profile, combining high memory capacity with significant local storage, makes the server suitable for database operations, caching layers, and memory-intensive multi-threaded workloads where single-core speed is not the primary constraint.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.73Score
    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) 1,413,352 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.74 50.00% 50.00% -14.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 10,089,608 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.869 20.00% 20.00% -2.77%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,135 2,416 0.884 10.00% 10.00% -1.23%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 38,514 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.357 10.00% 10.00% -9.79%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,913 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.809 10.00% 10.00% -2.10%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,073

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 6,690

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 14735
    Compression
    		 229137
    Encryption
    		 4215
    Extended Instructions
    		 14661
    Floating Point Maths
    		 34038
    Integer Maths
    		 45176
    Physics
    		 1095
    Prime Numbers
    		 129
    Single Threaded
    		 1913
    String Sorting
    		 31183

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2135
    Database Operations
    		 7701
    Memory Latency
    		 64
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21787
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9151
    Memory Write
    		 7972

    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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    G3 8112 GiB0
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