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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)
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
active
Observed At
2026-06-24T02:13:44.283681

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
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
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

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized virtual machine featuring a high RAM-to-vCPU ratio and dedicated Intel Xeon cores for memory-intensive enterprise workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure GS5-16 is a memory-optimized virtual machine instance featuring 16 dedicated vCPUs and physical cores on an x86_64 Intel Xeon E5-2698B v3 processor clocked at 2.0 GHz. It is equipped with 448.0 GB of RAM, providing 28.0 GB per core, alongside 918 GB of local storage and no GPU. Performance benchmarks indicate a distinct tradeoff: single-core performance is weak, scoring in the bottom 10% to 25% in stress-ng and Geekbench, while multi-core performance and memory bandwidth consistently reach average levels. This resource profile makes the instance qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-heavy workloads that do not require high single-threaded compute power. It is suited for database operations, caching layers, and memory-intensive enterprise applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,081

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 7,480

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		16524
    Compression
    		250552
    Encryption
    		4633
    Extended Instructions
    		15874
    Floating Point Maths
    		36974
    Integer Maths
    		49579
    Physics
    		2185
    Prime Numbers
    		187
    Single Threaded
    		1976
    String Sorting
    		34741

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		2202
    Database Operations
    		9095
    Memory Latency
    		65
    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

    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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