GS5-16 by Microsoft Azure
GS5-16 is a GS family [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 448 GiB of memory and 918 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.2986 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
448 GiB Memory
918 GB Storage
Spare SCore
11276
(All-cores)
(All-cores)
895
(Single-core)
(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | azure |
Server ID | Standard_GS5-16 |
Name | GS5-16 |
API Reference | Standard_GS5-16 |
Description | GS family [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs |
Family | GS |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-03-25T18:43:20.556045 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
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 | 2.4502 USD/h | 7.744 USD/h |
West US 2 (US) / westus2 | 1.4451 USD/h | 7.82 USD/h |
East US 2 (US) / eastus2 | 2.2209 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 | 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 | 32 KiB |
CPU L1D Cache Total | 512 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache | 32 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache Total | 512 KiB |
CPU L2 Cache | 256 KiB |
CPU L2 Cache Total | 4 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache | 40 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache Total | 80 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 | 448 GiB |
| GPU | |
|---|---|
GPU Count | 0 |
GPUs |
| STORAGE | |
|---|---|
Storage Size | 918 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: 1,081
Geekbench Multi-Core
Score: 7,480
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Compression | 250552 |
Encryption | 4633 |
Extended Instructions | 15874 |
Floating Point Maths | 36974 |
Integer Maths | 49579 |
Mark | 16524 |
Physics | 2185 |
Prime Numbers | 187 |
Single Threaded | 1976 |
String Sorting | 34741 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Database Operations | 9095 |
Memory Latency | 65 |
Memory Mark | 2202 |
Memory Read Cached | 21648 |
Memory Read Uncached | 9152 |
Memory Write | 8009 |
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 |
| GS3 | 8 | 112 GiB | 0 |
| GS4-8 | 8 | 224 GiB | 0 |
| GS5-8 | 8 | 448 GiB | 0 |
| GS4 | 16 | 224 GiB | 0 |
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