HX176-96rs is a HX family [RDMA capable] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 176 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 96 vCPUs, 1408 GiB of memory and 4.33 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.5967 USD per hour.
A high-memory, RDMA-capable server featuring dedicated Intel processors and substantial local storage for demanding database and clustered enterprise workloads.
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Microsoft Azure HX176-96rs is an x86_64 architecture server from the HX family, utilizing Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization. It features 96 dedicated vCPUs powered by Intel processors, paired with 1408.0 GB of system memory, which provides 14.67 GB of RAM per core. For storage, the instance includes 4332 GB of local storage and supports Premium Storage. The server is RDMA-capable, enabling high-speed, low-latency networking for clustered configurations, though it lacks integrated GPU hardware and complimentary public IPv4 addresses. This high-density memory and storage profile makes the server qualitatively cost-effective for memory-intensive enterprise applications. The HX176-96rs is suited for large-scale databases, high-performance computing nodes, and distributed memory-bound workloads.
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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.
Precomputed compound score for CI/CD Build 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% Geekbench Clang compilation (multi-core), 10% Geekbench Clang compilation (single-core), 20% stress-ng div16 best-N cores, 5% PassMark integer math, 5% PassMark compression, 5% Brotli compression (multi-core, level 0), 5% PassMark string sorting. Rationale for component selection: Build performance is mainly driven by multi-core compilation throughput, but also bundles single-core compilation speed and general CPU performance, multi-core compression and text/scripting processing.
Precomputed compound score for Compute Heavy Applications 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: 15% stress-ng div16 best-N cores, 10% stress-ng div16 single core, 20% PassMark CPU Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 64 MB), 15% PassMark floating point, 15% PassMark AVX/SSE/FMA (SIMD), 10% PassMark integer math, 5% PassMark physics simulation. Rationale for component selection: Number-crunching workload augmenting raw CPU performance stressing, general CPU performance benchmarks, memory bandwidth, and pure math computation speed like floating point, integer, SIMD (AVX/SSE/FMA) operations.
Precomputed compound score for Data Analysis 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: 70% PassMark CPU Mark (composite), 10% Gzip compression (single-core, level 5), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 64 MB), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite). Rationale for component selection: Data analysis and ETL workloads are memory-bandwidth-bound and CPU-throughput-driven. The profile combines general CPU performance and memory bandwidth/latency as the primary drivers, supplemented by single-core compression speed as a proxy for serialisation-heavy ETL tasks.
Precomputed compound score for LLM Inference 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: 15% LLM text generation (SmolLM-135M, 128 tok), 15% LLM prompt processing (SmolLM-135M, 512 tok), 15% LLM text generation (Llama 7B, 128 tok), 15% LLM prompt processing (Llama 7B, 512 tok), 15% LLM text generation (Llama-3.3 70B, 128 tok), 15% LLM prompt processing (Llama-3.3 70B, 512 tok), 5% Memory bandwidth (read, 256 MB), 2% PassMark AVX/SSE/FMA (SIMD), 2% PassMark floating point. Rationale for component selection: VRAM and memory-bandwidth-bound LLM inference workload, using direct LLM speed benchmarks at three model sizes, and supplementing with raw memory bandwidth and SIMD performance benchmarks.
Precomputed compound score for Web Server 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: 30% Static web RPS (1 KiB, 8 conn/vCPU), 20% Static web RPS (64 KiB, 8 conn/vCPU), 20% Static web throughput (256 KiB, 8 conn/vCPU), 20% OpenSSL AES-256-CBC (16 kB blocks), 5% Gzip compression (multi-core, level 5), 5% PassMark string sorting. Rationale for component selection: Primary workloads drivers are single-process static HTTP serving speed and throughput, text processing, TLS termination, and asset compression.
HX176-96rs is a HX family [RDMA capable] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 176 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 96 vCPUs, 1408 GiB of memory and 4.33 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.5967 USD per hour.
The HX176-96rs server is equipped with 96 logical CPU cores on unknown number of physical CPU core(s), 1408 GiB of memory, 4.33 TB of storage, and no GPU. Additional block storage can be attached as needed.
The pricing for HX176-96rs servers starts at 1.5967 USD per hour, but the actual price depends on the selected region, zone and server allocation method (e.g. on-demand versus spot pricing options): currently, we track the prices in 48 regions and zones every 5 minutes, and the maximum price stands at 12.528 USD.
The HX176-96rs server is offered by Microsoft Azure, founded in 2010, headquartered in Washington, United States. For more information, visit the Microsoft Azure homepage.
The HX176-96rs server is available in 48 availability zones of the following 8 regions: East US (US), East US 2 (US), Southeast Asia (SG), Sweden Central (SE), West Europe (NL), Korea Central (KR), Australia East (AU), South Central US (US).
A high-memory, RDMA-capable server featuring dedicated Intel processors and substantial local storage for demanding database and clustered enterprise workloads.
