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
11,276
(All-cores)
895
(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
Hw Virt
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-11-07T20:00:53.664805

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
2.1342 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
- 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
Ecpus
12.6
Scalability
78.75

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
448 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
448 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    918 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 918 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized virtual machine featuring high RAM capacity and local storage for database and in-memory caching workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure GS5-16 is a memory-optimized virtual machine powered by an Intel Xeon E5-2698B v3 x86_64 processor with 16 dedicated vCPUs and 16 physical cores. Running on Microsoft Hyper-V, it features 448.0 GB of RAM, 918 GB of local storage, and no GPU. Performance benchmarks show weak single-core capabilities but average multi-core and memory bandwidth performance, with Redis SET operations reaching 19.34 million operations per second. The high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 28.0 GB per core makes this server qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-intensive applications. It is highly suited for large databases, in-memory caching, and multi-threaded data processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.84Score
    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) 1,618,073 ops/sec 1,922,940 ops/sec 0.84 50.00% 50.00% -8.30%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 11,490,529 ops/sec 11,797,257 ops/sec 0.92 20.00% 20.00% -1.70%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,202 2,406 0.92 10.00% 10.00% -0.83%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 73,307 MB/sec 108,657 MB/sec 0.66 10.00% 10.00% -4.10%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,976 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,081

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 7,480

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 16,524
    Compression
    		 250,552
    Encryption
    		 4,633
    Extended Instructions
    		 15,874
    Floating Point Maths
    		 36,974
    Integer Maths
    		 49,579
    Physics
    		 2,185
    Prime Numbers
    		 187
    Single Threaded
    		 1,976
    String Sorting
    		 34,741

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,202
    Database Operations
    		 9,095
    Memory Latency
    		 65
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21,648
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9,152
    Memory Write
    		 8,009

    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

    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYAccelerators

    Similar Servers

    INSTANCEVENDORvCPUsMEMORYAccelerators

    GS5-16 FAQs