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)
(All-cores)
889
(Single-core)
(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 |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-04-25T06:08:27.013090 |
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 | 2.443 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 |
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: 1,078
Geekbench Multi-Core
Score: 5,342
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
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
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
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
| 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 |
| GS4 | 16 | 224 GiB | 0 |
| GS5-16 | 16 | 448 GiB | 0 |
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