M128-64bds_3_v3 by Microsoft Azure

M128-64bds_3_v3 is a MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 128 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 64 vCPUs, 2794 GiB of memory and 6.14 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 9.5973 USD per hour.
64 vCPU
2794 GiB Memory
6.14 TB Storage
Spare SCore
67,530
(All-cores)
2,059
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M128-64bds_3_v3
Name
M128-64bds_3_v3
API Reference
Standard_M128-64bds_3_v3
Description
MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 128 vCPUs
Family
MBDSMediumMemoryv3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-02T00:34:40.797686

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central US (US) / centralus
9.5973 USD/h -
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
10.1112 USD/h -
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
11.3429 USD/h -
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
13.2712 USD/h -
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
13.5935 USD/h -
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
13.611 USD/h -
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
14.7311 USD/h -
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
14.7438 USD/h -
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
22.6859 USD/h -
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
11.3422 USD/h 45.9571 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
- 45.9571 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
11.3429 USD/h 45.96 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
11.3429 USD/h 45.96 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
11.3429 USD/h 45.96 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 45.96 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
- 45.96 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
13.611 USD/h 55.15 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
13.6826 USD/h 55.44 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
13.6835 USD/h 55.4438 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
14.1787 USD/h 57.45 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
14.2732 USD/h 57.833 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
14.7449 USD/h 59.7443 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
- 62.046 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
15.8795 USD/h 64.3417 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
14.459 USD/h 65.7228 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
16.2204 USD/h 65.7228 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
16.4472 USD/h 66.642 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
17.5815 USD/h 71.238 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
17.5815 USD/h 71.238 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
64
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
32
CPU Speed
4 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8473C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
64 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
105 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
210 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, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, avx512vbmi, umip, waitpkg, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, serialize, tsxldtrk, ibt, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
32.8
Scalability
51.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
3 TB
Memory Amount Actual
3 TB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    6144 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 6144 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A high-density memory-optimized platform with massive local SSD storage and advanced matrix acceleration for demanding enterprise database workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure M128-64bds_3_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine configured with 64 dedicated vCPUs on an Intel Xeon 8473C processor running at 4.0 GHz. It features 2794.0 GB of system memory, providing 43.66 GB per core, and is bundled with 6144 GB of local SSD storage. Operating under the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, the server delivers top-tier performance in large-block memory read bandwidth and Passmark database operations, alongside strong multi-core processing capabilities accelerated by AVX-512 and AMX instruction sets. Lacking dedicated GPU hardware, this instance trades graphical acceleration for massive memory density and high-speed local storage. It is highly suited for memory-intensive enterprise workloads, including large-scale relational databases, in-memory analytics, Redis caching, and complex data-processing pipelines.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    4Score
    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) 12,262,459 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 6.3 50.00% 50.00% +150.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 60,008,268 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 5 20.00% 20.00% +38.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,422 2,416 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 394,520 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 3.5 10.00% 10.00% +13.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,165 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,203

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 20,113

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 81,743
    Compression
    		 1,194,799
    Encryption
    		 71,030
    Extended Instructions
    		 91,499
    Floating Point Maths
    		 230,327
    Integer Maths
    		 323,427
    Physics
    		 11,383
    Prime Numbers
    		 625
    Single Threaded
    		 3,165
    String Sorting
    		 161,226

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,422
    Database Operations
    		 35,101
    Memory Latency
    		 71
    Memory Read Cached
    		 27,843
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10,706
    Memory Write
    		 9,492

    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

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