M16bds_v3 by Microsoft Azure

M16bds_v3 is a MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 410 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2973 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
410 GB Storage
Spare SCore
16,883
(All-cores)
2,059
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M16bds_v3
Name
M16bds_v3
API Reference
Standard_M16bds_v3
Description
MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
MBDSMediumMemoryv3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
21
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-12T12:25:45.181472

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.2973 USD/h 1.46 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2973 USD/h 1.46 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2973 USD/h 1.46 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2973 USD/h 1.46 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.2973 USD/h 1.46 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 1.46 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 1.46 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.2983 USD/h 1.465 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.2983 USD/h 1.465 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.3371 USD/h 1.6555 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.3478 USD/h 1.7082 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.3482 USD/h 1.71 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.3562 USD/h 1.7497 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.3861 USD/h 1.752 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.3583 USD/h 1.76 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.3583 USD/h 1.76 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.3583 USD/h 1.76 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.3586 USD/h 1.7613 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.3716 USD/h 1.825 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.374 USD/h 1.8372 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.3868 USD/h 1.9 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.3877 USD/h 1.9044 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.4013 USD/h 1.971 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.4176 USD/h 2.051 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.4251 USD/h 2.0878 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.4251 USD/h 2.0878 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.431 USD/h 2.117 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.4607 USD/h 2.263 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.4607 USD/h 2.263 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.5945 USD/h 2.92 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
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
384 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
105 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
105 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
8.2
Scalability
102.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
128 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
128 GiB
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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processing, high-density RAM, and local storage for database and caching workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    The Microsoft Azure M16bds_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family, running on Microsoft Hyper-V. It features a dedicated Intel Xeon 8473C processor with 16 vCPUs (8 physical cores) clocked at 4.0 GHz, supported by 128.0 GB of RAM and a 410 GB local disk. The CPU architecture includes advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and Intel AMX. Performance benchmarks indicate strong single-core capabilities, with a Geekbench single-core score of 2196.0 and strong single-threaded gzip compression, alongside average multi-core and memory bandwidth performance. With a high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 8.0 GB per core and premium storage capability, this instance is well-suited for memory-intensive workloads, database operations, in-memory caching, and text processing tasks.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.39Score
    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) 3,130,249 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 1.63 50.00% 50.00% +27.70%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 15,388,869 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 1.32 20.00% 20.00% +5.71%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,365 2,418 0.978 10.00% 10.00% -0.22%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 114,355 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 1.06 10.00% 10.00% +0.58%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,160 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.34 10.00% 10.00% +2.97%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,196

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 13,388

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 27938
    Compression
    		 297777
    Encryption
    		 17611
    Extended Instructions
    		 22348
    Floating Point Maths
    		 57224
    Integer Maths
    		 79897
    Physics
    		 3653
    Prime Numbers
    		 162
    Single Threaded
    		 3160
    String Sorting
    		 40704

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2365
    Database Operations
    		 9125
    Memory Latency
    		 71
    Memory Read Cached
    		 28313
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10762
    Memory Write
    		 9520

    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
    M128-64bds_v3 641024 GiB0
    M64bds_1_v3 641397 GiB0
    M128-64bds_3_v3 642794 GiB0

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