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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 2.164 USD per hour.
128 vCPU
1024 GiB Memory
410 GB Storage
Spare SCore
110265
(All-cores)
2056
(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
2026-07-20T08:16:09.706241

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
2.164 USD/h 11.71 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
2.164 USD/h 11.71 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
2.164 USD/h 11.71 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
2.164 USD/h 11.71 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
2.164 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
2.1658 USD/h 11.7197 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
2.1658 USD/h 11.7197 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
2.4474 USD/h 13.2437 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
2.5318 USD/h 13.7 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
2.5319 USD/h 13.7007 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
2.5934 USD/h 14.0334 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
2.5983 USD/h 14.06 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
2.5983 USD/h 14.06 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
2.6105 USD/h 14.1263 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
2.6112 USD/h 14.13 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
2.705 USD/h 14.6375 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
2.723 USD/h 14.7351 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
2.8145 USD/h 15.23 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
2.8155 USD/h 15.2356 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
2.9214 USD/h 15.8085 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
3.0322 USD/h 16.408 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
3.0945 USD/h 16.7453 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
3.0945 USD/h 16.7453 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
3.1378 USD/h 16.9795 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
3.3542 USD/h 18.1505 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
3.3542 USD/h 18.1505 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
4.328 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 high-density, memory-optimized platform delivering exceptional memory bandwidth and database performance for demanding enterprise-scale workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    The Microsoft Azure M128bds_v3 is a memory-optimized server built on the x86_64 architecture and powered by an Intel Xeon 8473C processor running at 4.0 GHz. Operating under Microsoft Hyper-V, it delivers 128 dedicated vCPUs across 64 physical cores, paired with 1024.0 GB of system memory and a 410 GB local disk. Designed for high-density enterprise workloads, the server excels in memory-intensive tasks, demonstrating top-tier memory bandwidth of 433.69 GB/sec for uncached large blocks and exceptional database performance, including 138.18 million Redis SET operations per second. While it lacks a dedicated GPU, its support for Intel AMX and AVX-512 instruction sets enables strong CPU-based LLM inference and cryptographic execution. This configuration is highly suited for large-scale in-memory databases, complex data processing, and high-throughput enterprise applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    5.86Score
    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 1,895,870 ops/sec 10.4 50.00% 50.00% +222.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 94,622,499 ops/sec 11,503,938 ops/sec 8.23 20.00% 20.00% +52.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,473 2,410 1.03 10.00% 10.00% +0.30%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 466,166 MB/sec 107,331 MB/sec 4.34 10.00% 10.00% +15.80%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,157 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.34 10.00% 10.00% +2.97%

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

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