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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)
718
(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
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-03T07:22:45.353888

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
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
0.7411 USD/h 1.936 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.3624 USD/h 1.961 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.7559 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
Ecpus
7.1
Scalability
88.75

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    Server Description

    A memory-dense virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon cores and local storage, optimized for database operations and in-memory caching.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure GS3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the GS family, utilizing the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It is powered by a dedicated Intel Xeon E5-2698B v3 x86_64 processor with 8 physical cores and 8 vCPUs running at 2.0 GHz, supported by 40 MB of L3 cache. The instance features a high memory capacity of 112.0 GB (14.0 GB per core) and includes 229 GB of local storage, with no GPU hardware. Benchmark results indicate weak to poor raw CPU compute performance, but average capabilities in memory bandwidth, database operations, and Redis SET operations. This resource profile makes the GS3 qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-heavy workloads that do not demand high CPU clock speeds. It is best suited for database hosting, caching layers, and in-memory data processing rather than compute-intensive tasks.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.445Score
    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) 735,932 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.385 50.00% 50.00% -38.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 5,371,515 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.463 20.00% 20.00% -14.30%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,907 2,416 0.789 10.00% 10.00% -2.34%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 35,145 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.326 10.00% 10.00% -10.60%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,528 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.646 10.00% 10.00% -4.28%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,027

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 4,606

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    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

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    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

    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    GS1 228 GiB0
    GS2 456 GiB0
    GS4-4 4224 GiB0
    GS4-8 8224 GiB0
    GS5-8 8448 GiB0
    GS4 16224 GiB0
    GS5-16 16448 GiB0

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