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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 0.2698 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
410 GB Storage
Spare SCore
16883
(All-cores)
2059
(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
2026-07-29T11:38:27.068507

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.2698 USD/h 1.46 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2698 USD/h 1.46 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2698 USD/h 1.46 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2698 USD/h 1.46 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.2698 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
0.2707 USD/h 1.465 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.2707 USD/h 1.465 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.3059 USD/h 1.6555 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.3157 USD/h 1.7082 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.316 USD/h 1.71 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.3233 USD/h 1.7497 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.3252 USD/h 1.76 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.3252 USD/h 1.76 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.3252 USD/h 1.76 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.3255 USD/h 1.7613 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.3373 USD/h 1.825 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.3395 USD/h 1.8372 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.3511 USD/h 1.9 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.3519 USD/h 1.9044 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.3642 USD/h 1.971 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.379 USD/h 2.051 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.3858 USD/h 2.0878 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.3858 USD/h 2.0878 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.3912 USD/h 2.117 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.4182 USD/h 2.263 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.4182 USD/h 2.263 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.5396 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 high-frequency Intel Xeon cores, substantial RAM density, and integrated local storage for demanding workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure M16bds_v3 is an x86_64 memory-optimized virtual machine from the MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8473C processor running at 4.0 GHz, it provides 16 dedicated vCPUs and 128.0 GB of RAM, yielding a high 1:8 vCPU-to-memory ratio. The instance includes a 410 GB local disk and supports premium block storage. In benchmark testing, the server exhibits top-tier single-core performance, particularly in Geekbench single-core and text processing tests, alongside strong single-threaded compression speeds. Multi-core operations, database tasks, and memory bandwidth fall into the average tier. With its high memory density and dedicated CPU allocation, the M16bds_v3 is designed for memory-intensive workloads, database hosting, text processing, and software compilation.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.41Score
    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 1,896,415 ops/sec 1.65 50.00% 50.00% +28.50%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 15,388,869 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 1.33 20.00% 20.00% +5.87%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,365 2,411 0.981 10.00% 10.00% -0.19%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 114,355 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 1.07 10.00% 10.00% +0.68%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,160 Mops/s 2,363 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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    M64bds_v3 64512 GiB0
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    M128-64bds_3_v3 642794 GiB0

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