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G5 by Microsoft Azure

G5 is a G family [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 32 vCPUs, 448 GiB of memory and 6.29 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.2986 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
448 GiB Memory
6.29 TB Storage
Spare SCore
20003
(All-cores)
834
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_G5
Name
G5
API Reference
Standard_G5
Description
G family [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs
Family
G
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-19T09:21:16.389061

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
UK South (GB) / uksouth
1.2986 USD/h 7.027 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
1.4311 USD/h 7.744 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
2.9644 USD/h 7.744 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
1.4451 USD/h 7.82 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
2.687 USD/h 7.82 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
1.6059 USD/h 8.69 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
1.7011 USD/h 9.205 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
1.7353 USD/h 9.39 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
1.8462 USD/h 9.99 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
1.8875 USD/h 10.208 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
32
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
1 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
40 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
80 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
24
Scalability
75

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
448 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
448 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    6291 GB
    Storages
    • 6291 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A high-capacity memory and storage configuration designed for multi-threaded database workloads and large-scale enterprise applications requiring substantial local capacity.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure G5 is a memory-optimized and storage-intensive virtual machine featuring 32 dedicated vCPUs on an x86_64 Intel Xeon E5-2698B v3 processor. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, it delivers 448.0 GB of RAM (14.0 GB per core) and a substantial 6291 GB of local storage, with no GPU capabilities. Performance benchmarks reveal a distinct tradeoff: single-core execution is weak, with stress-ng and Geekbench single-core metrics falling into the bottom percentiles. However, multi-core operations, memory bandwidth, and database transaction simulations consistently achieve average tier performance. Qualitatively, the G5 offers high resource density for memory and storage, offset by older CPU architecture lacking AVX-512 support. This profile makes the instance highly suitable for memory-intensive workloads, large databases, enterprise applications, and data warehousing where multi-threaded capacity and local storage volume are prioritized over raw single-threaded speed.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.35Score
    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) 3,099,294 ops/sec 1,895,838 ops/sec 1.63 50.00% 50.00% +27.70%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 20,686,212 ops/sec 11,497,234 ops/sec 1.8 20.00% 20.00% +12.50%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,227 2,410 0.924 10.00% 10.00% -0.79%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 74,452 MB/sec 107,331 MB/sec 0.694 10.00% 10.00% -3.59%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,910 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.808 10.00% 10.00% -2.11%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,093

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 8,916

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		26485
    Compression
    		462039
    Encryption
    		8402
    Extended Instructions
    		29277
    Floating Point Maths
    		67506
    Integer Maths
    		91327
    Physics
    		2001
    Prime Numbers
    		247
    Single Threaded
    		1910
    String Sorting
    		61338

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		2227
    Database Operations
    		15873
    Memory Latency
    		64
    Memory Read Cached
    		21517
    Memory Read Uncached
    		9133
    Memory Write
    		8016

    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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    G2 456 GiB0
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