GS3 by Microsoft Azure
GS3 is a GS family [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 112 GiB of memory and 229 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.3247 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
112 GiB Memory
229 GB Storage
Spare SCore
5111
(All-cores)
(All-cores)
718
(Single-core)
(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | azure |
Server ID | Standard_GS3 |
Name | GS3 |
API Reference | Standard_GS3 |
Description | GS family [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs |
Family | GS |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-04-18T01:34:49.962044 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
UK South (GB) / uksouth | 0.3247 USD/h | 1.757 USD/h |
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast | 0.3578 USD/h | 1.936 USD/h |
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral | 0.6126 USD/h | 1.936 USD/h |
West US 2 (US) / westus2 | 0.3624 USD/h | 1.961 USD/h |
East US 2 (US) / eastus2 | 0.6873 USD/h | 2.2 USD/h |
Japan East (JP) / japaneast | 0.4254 USD/h | 2.302 USD/h |
West US (US) / westus | 0.4509 USD/h | 2.44 USD/h |
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast | 0.4719 USD/h | 2.552 USD/h |
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia | 0.4879 USD/h | 2.64 USD/h |
West Europe (NL) / westeurope | 0.5174 USD/h | 2.8 USD/h |
Processor
vCPUs | 8 |
Hypervisor | Microsoft Hyper-V |
CPU Allocation | Dedicated |
CPU Cores | 8 |
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 | 256 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache | 32 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache Total | 256 KiB |
CPU L2 Cache | 256 KiB |
CPU L2 Cache Total | 2 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 |
System Resources and Accelerators
| MEMORY | |
|---|---|
Memory Amount | 112 GiB |
| GPU | |
|---|---|
GPU Count | 0 |
GPUs |
| STORAGE | |
|---|---|
Storage Size | 229 GB |
Storages |
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| NETWORK | |
|---|---|
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
Economics
Performance
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Score: 1,027
Geekbench Multi-Core
Score: 4,606
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 7766 |
Compression | 112569 |
Encryption | 2055 |
Extended Instructions | 7111 |
Floating Point Maths | 16582 |
Integer Maths | 22249 |
Physics | 984 |
Prime Numbers | 83 |
Single Threaded | 1528 |
String Sorting | 15681 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 1907 |
Database Operations | 4189 |
Memory Latency | 69 |
Memory Read Cached | 18064 |
Memory Read Uncached | 8660 |
Memory Write | 7121 |
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
Alternatives
Servers of the Same Family
| INSTANCE | vCPUs | MEMORY | GPUs |
|---|---|---|---|
| GS1 | 2 | 28 GiB | 0 |
| GS2 | 4 | 56 GiB | 0 |
| GS4-4 | 4 | 224 GiB | 0 |
| GS4-8 | 8 | 224 GiB | 0 |
| GS5-8 | 8 | 448 GiB | 0 |
| GS4 | 16 | 224 GiB | 0 |
| GS5-16 | 16 | 448 GiB | 0 |
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