M128bds_v3 by Microsoft Azure

M128bds_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, 1024 GiB of memory and 410 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 2.3842 USD per hour.
128 vCPU
1024 GiB Memory
410 GB Storage
Spare SCore
110,265
(All-cores)
2,056
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M128bds_v3
Name
M128bds_v3
API Reference
Standard_M128bds_v3
Description
MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 128 vCPUs
Family
MBDSMediumMemoryv3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-03T13:46:50.226003

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
2.3842 USD/h 11.71 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
2.3842 USD/h 11.71 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
2.3842 USD/h 11.71 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
2.3842 USD/h 11.71 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
2.3842 USD/h 11.71 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 11.71 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 11.71 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
2.3861 USD/h 11.7197 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
2.3861 USD/h 11.7197 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
2.6964 USD/h 13.2437 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
2.7893 USD/h 13.7 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
2.7895 USD/h 13.7007 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
2.8572 USD/h 14.0334 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
3.0971 USD/h 14.052 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
2.8626 USD/h 14.06 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
2.8626 USD/h 14.06 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
2.8761 USD/h 14.1263 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
2.8769 USD/h 14.13 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
2.9802 USD/h 14.6375 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
3.0001 USD/h 14.7351 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
3.1008 USD/h 15.23 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
3.102 USD/h 15.2356 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
3.2186 USD/h 15.8085 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
3.3407 USD/h 16.408 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
3.4093 USD/h 16.7453 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
3.4093 USD/h 16.7453 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
3.457 USD/h 16.9795 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
3.6954 USD/h 18.1505 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
3.6954 USD/h 18.1505 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
4.7683 USD/h 23.42 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
53.6
Scalability
83.75

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized server featuring 128 vCPUs and 1 TB of RAM, delivering top-tier memory bandwidth and database processing capabilities.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure M128bds_v3 is an x86_64 server in the MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family, powered by a 128-vCPU Intel Xeon 8473C processor running at 4.0 GHz with 1024.0 GB of RAM. It features a 410 GB local disk and is premium storage capable. Lacking a GPU, it relies on its 64 physical cores to deliver strong multi-threaded performance. Benchmarks place its memory bandwidth, passmark CPU score, and database operations in the top 10% tier. Conversely, single-core performance remains in the average tier. With a 1:8 vCPU-to-RAM ratio, this server is designed for memory-optimized workloads. It is highly effective for large-scale database operations, Redis deployments, and multi-threaded data processing, though its limited local storage requires external block storage for data-intensive applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    5.8Score
    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) 19,623,560 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 10.2 50.00% 50.00% +219.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 94,622,499 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 8.1 20.00% 20.00% +51.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,473 2,418 1.02 10.00% 10.00% +0.20%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 466,166 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 4.31 10.00% 10.00% +15.70%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,157 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.33 10.00% 10.00% +2.89%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,169

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 20,086

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 106632
    Compression
    		 1935135
    Encryption
    		 116411
    Extended Instructions
    		 136405
    Floating Point Maths
    		 376021
    Integer Maths
    		 527929
    Physics
    		 13465
    Prime Numbers
    		 846
    Single Threaded
    		 3157
    String Sorting
    		 259730

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2473
    Database Operations
    		 34375
    Memory Latency
    		 69
    Memory Read Cached
    		 27929
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10900
    Memory Write
    		 9527

    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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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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    M64bds_v3 64512 GiB0
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    M64bds_1_v3 641397 GiB0

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