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GS4 by Microsoft Azure

GS4 is a GS family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 224 GiB of memory and 459 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.6494 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
224 GiB Memory
459 GB Storage
Spare SCore
10433
(All-cores)
879
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_GS4
Name
GS4
API Reference
Standard_GS4
Description
GS family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
GS
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
28
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-07T04:41:33.301224

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
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
768 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
20 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
11.9
Scalability
74.38

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
    459 GB
    Storages
    • 459 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-optimized virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon cores and high memory density for database and caching workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure GS4 is an x86_64 virtual machine featuring 16 dedicated physical cores and 16 vCPUs powered by an Intel Xeon E5-2698B v3 processor running at 2.0 GHz. It is configured with 224.0 GB of RAM, offering a high memory-to-core ratio of 14.0 GB, alongside 459 GB of local storage. Benchmark results show poor single-core performance and weak uncached memory write bandwidth, but average multi-core CPU performance and database operations. The instance lacks GPU acceleration and AVX-512 support. Qualitatively, the GS4 provides high memory density at the expense of modern single-thread processing speeds. It is best suited for memory-intensive workloads such as database operations, Redis caching, and static web serving.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.478Score
    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) 821,303 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.43 50.00% 50.00% -34.40%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,318,615 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.544 20.00% 20.00% -11.50%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,810 2,416 0.749 10.00% 10.00% -2.85%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 36,776 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.341 10.00% 10.00% -10.20%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,320 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.558 10.00% 10.00% -5.67%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 601

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 4,579

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 13445
    Compression
    		 216734
    Encryption
    		 4038
    Extended Instructions
    		 13852
    Floating Point Maths
    		 32586
    Integer Maths
    		 43325
    Physics
    		 1009
    Prime Numbers
    		 115
    Single Threaded
    		 1320
    String Sorting
    		 29125

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1810
    Database Operations
    		 7663
    Memory Latency
    		 73
    Memory Read Cached
    		 16004
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 7924
    Memory Write
    		 6766

    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
    GS3 8112 GiB0
    GS4-8 8224 GiB0
    GS5-8 8448 GiB0
    GS5-16 16448 GiB0

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