GS4-8 by Microsoft Azure

GS4-8 is a GS family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 224 GiB of memory and 459 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.6494 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
224 GiB Memory
459 GB Storage
Spare SCore
5,219
(All-cores)
729
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_GS4-8
Name
GS4-8
API Reference
Standard_GS4-8
Description
GS family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
GS
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
34
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-11-05T11:24:17.351310

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
1.0671 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
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
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
384 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
10 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
7.2
Scalability
90

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
224 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
224 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    459 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    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

    An x86_64 virtual machine offering high memory density and local storage for memory-bound enterprise workloads and database caching.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure GS4-8 is an x86_64 memory-optimized virtual machine featuring 8 dedicated vCPUs and 8 physical cores powered by an Intel Xeon E5-2698B v3 processor running at 2.0 GHz. It is configured with 224.0 GB of RAM, providing 28.0 GB of memory per core, alongside 459 GB of local storage. Operating under the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, the server lacks GPU acceleration and complimentary public IPv4 addresses. Benchmark data indicates weak to poor CPU performance, with a Geekbench single-core score of 621.0 and multi-core score of 3433.0. However, it maintains average performance in database operations and Redis SET benchmarks, achieving 6.85 million operations per second. This hardware profile is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-bound workloads rather than compute-heavy tasks, making it suitable for caching systems, database hosting, and memory-intensive enterprise applications.

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    Prices per Zone

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.33Score
    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) 533,206 ops/sec 1,937,246 ops/sec 0.28 50.00% 50.00% -47.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,930,772 ops/sec 11,803,344 ops/sec 0.33 20.00% 20.00% -20.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,526 2,409 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 33,926 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 0.31 10.00% 10.00% -11.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,132 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.46 10.00% 10.00% -7.50%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 621

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 3,433

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 6,589
    Compression
    		 95,399
    Encryption
    		 1,748
    Extended Instructions
    		 6,132
    Floating Point Maths
    		 14,294
    Integer Maths
    		 19,378
    Physics
    		 825
    Prime Numbers
    		 73
    Single Threaded
    		 1,132
    String Sorting
    		 13,564

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,526
    Database Operations
    		 3,470
    Memory Latency
    		 85
    Memory Read Cached
    		 13,609
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 6,491
    Memory Write
    		 5,868

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 192.93 182.15 0.94×
    bitops
    		 93,253 744,542 7.98×
    branch
    		 98,193 780,739 7.95×
    funccall
    		 454.64 3,621 7.97×
    funcret
    		 8,634 65,917 7.63×
    hash
    		 108,039 859,668 7.96×
    intmath
    		 43,638 346,789 7.95×
    nop
    		 134,134 1,069,561 7.97×
    prime
    		 287,790 2,286,856 7.95×
    rotate
    		 69,887 556,369 7.96×
    str
    		 643,237 4,946,642 7.69×
    wcs
    		 439,409 3,447,813 7.85×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,034 16,146 7.94×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 494.39 3,930 7.95×
    zlib
    		 29.58 317.31 10.73×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 17,392 115,486 6.64×
    clone
    		 1,185 5,672 4.79×
    context
    		 1,489 11,885 7.98×
    cpu-sched
    		 71.53 481.04 6.73×
    eventfd
    		 32,201 633,455 19.67×
    fault
    		 9,392 62,291 6.63×
    fork
    		 3,854 21,536 5.59×
    getrandom
    		 34,410 273,329 7.94×
    hrtimers
    		 382,072 835,918 2.19×
    mprotect
    		 1,015,962 1,562,457 1.54×
    mtx
    		 12,196,384 283,234,495 23.22×
    munmap
    		 2,753 17,865 6.49×
    null
    		 162,731 1,279,469 7.86×
    pipe
    		 826,544 3,632,837 4.40×
    priv-instr
    		 347,586 2,685,033 7.72×
    resched
    		 2,004,624 854,747 0.43×
    switch
    		 92,514 1,736,204 18.77×
    timermix
    		 145,621 1,266,920 8.70×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 9,528 19,984 2.10×
    tsc
    		 640,917 5,104,871 7.96×
    usersyscall
    		 242,960 1,897,113 7.81×
    vdso
    		 65,279,717 516,889,234 7.92×
    vfork
    		 22,399 137,489 6.14×
    x86syscall
    		 1,817,419 14,374,453 7.91×
    yield
    		 4,690,123 4,813,472 1.03×
    zero
    		 1,360,686 10,842,389 7.97×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 10,600 83,988 7.92×
    expmath
    		 2,068 16,456 7.96×
    fma
    		 485,983 3,866,968 7.96×
    fp
    		 136.8 1,084 7.93×
    fractal
    		 3.6 28 7.78×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,206 17,578 7.97×
    logmath
    		 3,466 27,373 7.90×
    matrix
    		 2,712 21,464 7.92×
    matrix-3d
    		 574.3 2,218 3.86×
    monte-carlo
    		 85.43 682.31 7.99×
    mpfr
    		 1,011 7,983 7.90×
    powmath
    		 1,206 9,607 7.96×
    trig
    		 1,415 11,250 7.95×
    veccmp
    		 14,884 118,308 7.95×
    vecfp
    		 1,093 8,706 7.96×
    vecmath
    		 2,350 18,601 7.91×
    vecshuf
    		 475.93 3,791 7.97×
    vecwide
    		 22,836 181,637 7.95×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 5.8 46.2 7.97×
    bsearch
    		 176.55 1,411 7.99×
    bubblesort
    		 0.6 4.8 8.00×
    fibsearch
    		 207.52 1,653 7.96×
    heapsort
    		 6.6 52.8 8.00×
    hsearch
    		 5,239 40,601 7.75×
    insertionsort
    		 7.4 59.2 8.00×
    malloc
    		 1,383,608 12,988,745 9.39×
    mcontend
    		 94.52 1,039 10.99×
    mergesort
    		 19.2 152.8 7.96×
    qsort
    		 14.8 117.6 7.95×
    skiplist
    		 3,896 31,002 7.96×
    tree
    		 1 6.4 6.40×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 219,844 371,765 1.69×
    cachehammer
    		 197,276 1,533,077 7.77×
    cacheline
    		 48.62 371.93 7.65×
    l1cache
    		 658.81 5,217 7.92×
    memcpy
    		 291.51 2,322 7.96×
    memrate
    		 1.17 6.21 5.31×
    memthrash
    		 114.21 301.03 2.64×
    ptr-chase
    		 7,306,767 55,023,054 7.53×
    spinmem
    		 285.39 433.08 1.52×
    stream
    		 28.5 1,225 42.98×
    vm
    		 59,033 291,745 4.94×

    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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