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M128bds_3_v3 by Microsoft Azure

M128bds_3_v3 is a MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 128 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 128 vCPUs, 2794 GiB of memory and 6.14 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 8.4929 USD per hour.
128 vCPU
2794 GiB Memory
6.14 TB Storage
Spare SCore
110316
(All-cores)
2056
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M128bds_3_v3
Name
M128bds_3_v3
API Reference
Standard_M128bds_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
2026-08-01T17:37:12.959533

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
8.4929 USD/h 45.9571 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
8.4929 USD/h 45.9571 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
8.4934 USD/h 45.96 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
8.4934 USD/h 45.96 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
8.4934 USD/h 45.96 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
8.4934 USD/h 45.96 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
8.4934 USD/h 45.96 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 45.96 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 45.96 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
9.5973 USD/h 51.9332 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
9.9367 USD/h 53.77 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
9.9373 USD/h 53.7732 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
10.1786 USD/h 55.079 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
10.1917 USD/h 55.15 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
10.1917 USD/h 55.15 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
11.0304 USD/h 55.152 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
10.2453 USD/h 55.44 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
10.246 USD/h 55.4438 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
10.6168 USD/h 57.45 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
10.6875 USD/h 57.833 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
11.04 USD/h 59.74 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
11.0407 USD/h 59.7443 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
11.4661 USD/h 62.046 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
11.8904 USD/h 64.3417 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
12.1456 USD/h 65.7228 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
12.1456 USD/h 65.7228 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
12.3154 USD/h 66.642 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
13.1648 USD/h 71.238 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
13.1648 USD/h 71.238 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
16.9868 USD/h 91.92 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
128
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
64
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
3 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
128 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
53.7
Scalability
83.91

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    Server Description

    A high-capacity memory-optimized server featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processing, massive RAM, and integrated local storage for intensive database workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure M128bds_3_v3 is a memory-optimized server from the MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family, featuring 128 vCPUs and 64 physical cores powered by an Intel Xeon 8473C processor running at 4.0 GHz. It is equipped with 2794.0 GB of RAM and 6144 GB of local storage, with no integrated GPUs. The server demonstrates top-tier memory bandwidth, reaching 9024.88 GB/sec for cached reads, and strong multi-core processing capabilities, as evidenced by a PassMark CPU score of 106798.23. Database performance is a key strength, with Redis SET operations achieving 139.35 million operations per second. While single-core stress-ng performance is average, the high memory-to-vCPU ratio and substantial local storage make this server highly efficient for large-scale databases, in-memory data stores, and heavy multi-threaded workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    5.88Score
    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) 19,800,769 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 10.4 50.00% 50.00% +222.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 94,990,565 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 8.23 20.00% 20.00% +52.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,461 2,411 1.02 10.00% 10.00% +0.20%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 463,236 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 4.31 10.00% 10.00% +15.70%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,163 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.34 10.00% 10.00% +2.97%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,181

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 20,402

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 106798
    Compression
    		 1935408
    Encryption
    		 116613
    Extended Instructions
    		 135638
    Floating Point Maths
    		 375488
    Integer Maths
    		 527886
    Physics
    		 13833
    Prime Numbers
    		 845
    Single Threaded
    		 3163
    String Sorting
    		 260749

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2461
    Database Operations
    		 34530
    Memory Latency
    		 69
    Memory Read Cached
    		 27664
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10689
    Memory Write
    		 9366

    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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