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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
Average Time To Start
35
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-08T01:21:02.451238

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
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
384 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
10 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
96 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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A memory-heavy virtual machine featuring an exceptional memory-to-core ratio and local storage for memory-intensive database and caching workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure GS5-8 is an x86_64 memory-optimized virtual machine powered by an Intel Xeon E5-2698B v3 processor running at 2.0 GHz on Microsoft Hyper-V. It features 8 dedicated physical cores paired with 448.0 GB of RAM, providing an exceptionally high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 56.0 GB per core. The instance includes 918 GB of local storage but lacks complimentary public IPv4 addresses. Performance benchmarks indicate a tradeoff: single-core CPU performance is poor, ranking in the bottom 10% for stress-ng, while multi-core performance and memory bandwidth remain in the average tier. This hardware profile is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-bound applications rather than compute-heavy tasks. It is best suited for in-memory databases, caching layers, and database operations that leverage its massive memory footprint and local storage.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.556Score
    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) 866,714 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.454 50.00% 50.00% -32.60%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,314,920 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.544 20.00% 20.00% -11.50%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,143 2,416 0.887 10.00% 10.00% -1.19%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 72,445 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.671 10.00% 10.00% -3.91%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,986 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.84 10.00% 10.00% -1.73%

    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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