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 2.342 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
API Reference Object
-
Description
MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 128 vCPUs
Family
MBDSMediumMemoryv3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-18T14:33:25.296266

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
2.342 USD/h 11.71 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
2.6277 USD/h 11.71 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
2.6277 USD/h 11.71 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
2.6277 USD/h 11.71 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
2.6277 USD/h 11.71 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
2.6277 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
2.6299 USD/h 11.7197 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
2.6299 USD/h 11.7197 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
2.4474 USD/h 13.2437 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
3.0743 USD/h 13.7 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
3.0744 USD/h 13.7007 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
3.1491 USD/h 14.0334 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
3.4132 USD/h 14.052 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
3.1551 USD/h 14.06 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
3.1551 USD/h 14.06 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
3.17 USD/h 14.1263 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
3.1708 USD/h 14.13 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
3.2847 USD/h 14.6375 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
3.3066 USD/h 14.7351 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
3.4176 USD/h 15.23 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
3.4189 USD/h 15.2356 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
3.5474 USD/h 15.8085 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
3.682 USD/h 16.408 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
3.7576 USD/h 16.7453 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
3.7576 USD/h 16.7453 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
3.8102 USD/h 16.9795 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
4.073 USD/h 18.1505 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
4.073 USD/h 18.1505 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
5.2554 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
41.88

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    Server Description

    A high-density memory-optimized server featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors, massive memory bandwidth, and local SSD storage for enterprise database workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure M128bds_v3 is an x86_64 memory-optimized server from the MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family, running on Microsoft Hyper-V. It features a dedicated Intel Xeon 8473C processor with 128 vCPUs (64 physical cores) running at 4.0 GHz, 1024.0 GB of RAM, and a local 410 GB SSD. Benchmarks show top-tier memory bandwidth and database performance, with Redis SET operations and Passmark database tests ranking in the top 10%. Multi-core compute and LLM inference speeds are strong, placing in the top 25%, while single-core performance remains average. This hardware profile is highly suited for memory-intensive workloads, large databases, and multi-threaded enterprise applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    6Score
    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 1,917,050 ops/sec 11 50.00% 50.00% +230.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 94,622,499 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 7.9 20.00% 20.00% +51.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,473 2,417 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 466,166 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 4.3 10.00% 10.00% +16.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,157 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%

    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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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYAccelerators
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    M96-48bds_2_v3 481946 GiB0
    M64bds_v3 64512 GiB0
    M128-64bds_v3 641024 GiB0
    M64bds_1_v3 641397 GiB0

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