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GS5-8 by Microsoft Azure

GS5-8 is a GS family [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 448 GiB of memory and 918 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.2986 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
448 GiB Memory
918 GB Storage
Spare SCore
6480
(All-cores)
889
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_GS5-8
Name
GS5-8
API Reference
Standard_GS5-8
Description
GS family [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs
Family
GS
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-06-24T04:55:36.107668

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
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
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 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
7.3
Scalability
91.25

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 high-density memory-optimized virtual machine featuring massive RAM capacity and local storage for memory-bound enterprise database workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure GS5-8 is a memory-optimized virtual machine featuring 8 dedicated vCPUs on an Intel Xeon E5-2698B v3 processor running at 2.0 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture and managed via Microsoft Hyper-V, this instance is defined by its massive memory allocation of 448.0 GB, which equates to 56.0 GB of RAM per core, alongside 918 GB of local storage. Benchmark data highlights a significant performance tradeoff: single-core CPU performance is weak, placing in the bottom 10% to 25%, whereas multi-core execution, memory bandwidth, and database operations perform at average levels. Given this hardware profile, the GS5-8 is qualitatively cost-effective for memory-bound applications rather than compute-heavy tasks. It is best suited for large-scale in-memory databases, caching layers, and enterprise workloads requiring massive memory capacity relative to processing cores.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,078

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 5,342

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		9974
    Compression
    		143127
    Encryption
    		2627
    Extended Instructions
    		8903
    Floating Point Maths
    		21450
    Integer Maths
    		28437
    Physics
    		1465
    Prime Numbers
    		105
    Single Threaded
    		1986
    String Sorting
    		20254

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		2143
    Database Operations
    		4675
    Memory Latency
    		64
    Memory Read Cached
    		20804
    Memory Read Uncached
    		9078
    Memory Write
    		8045

    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
    GS4 16224 GiB0
    GS5-16 16448 GiB0

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