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GS5 by Microsoft Azure

GS5 is a GS family [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 32 vCPUs, 448 GiB of memory and 918 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.2986 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
448 GiB Memory
918 GB Storage
Spare SCore
20252
(All-cores)
880
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_GS5
Name
GS5
API Reference
Standard_GS5
Description
GS family [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs
Family
GS
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
43
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-19T13:59:41.301416

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
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
40 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
96 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
23
Scalability
71.88

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
    918 GB
    Storages
    • 918 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 cores and high RAM density for memory-bound, multi-threaded enterprise workloads.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure GS5 is a memory-optimized virtual machine featuring 32 dedicated physical cores and 32 vCPUs on an Intel Xeon E5-2698B v3 processor running at 2.0 GHz. It is equipped with 448.0 GB of RAM, providing a high memory-to-core ratio of 14.0 GB per core, alongside 918 GB of local storage. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, the instance exhibits a distinct performance profile: single-core benchmarks, such as stress-ng and Geekbench single-core, rank in the bottom 10% to 25%, while multi-core operations, memory bandwidth, and database operations consistently perform in the average tier. Lacking GPU acceleration and AVX-512 support, the GS5 is qualitatively cost-effective for memory-bound, multi-threaded workloads rather than compute-intensive single-threaded tasks. It is best suited for large databases, caching layers, and enterprise applications requiring substantial memory capacity.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    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) 3,076,126 ops/sec 1,895,870 ops/sec 1.62 50.00% 50.00% +27.30%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 20,553,781 ops/sec 11,503,938 ops/sec 1.79 20.00% 20.00% +12.30%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,251 2,410 0.934 10.00% 10.00% -0.68%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 74,748 MB/sec 107,331 MB/sec 0.696 10.00% 10.00% -3.56%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,002 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.847 10.00% 10.00% -1.65%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,088

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 8,981

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		26594
    Compression
    		455270
    Encryption
    		8353
    Extended Instructions
    		29058
    Floating Point Maths
    		67221
    Integer Maths
    		90916
    Physics
    		2015
    Prime Numbers
    		246
    Single Threaded
    		2002
    String Sorting
    		61203

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		2251
    Database Operations
    		16213
    Memory Latency
    		63
    Memory Read Cached
    		21617
    Memory Read Uncached
    		9116
    Memory Write
    		8164

    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
    GS4 16224 GiB0

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