M16bs_v3 by Microsoft Azure

M16bs_v3 is a MBSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2578 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
16,884
(All-cores)
2,059
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M16bs_v3
Name
M16bs_v3
API Reference
Standard_M16bs_v3
Description
MBSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
MBSMediumMemoryv3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-28T14:05:11.161903

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.2578 USD/h 1.3952 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.2578 USD/h 1.3952 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.2587 USD/h 1.4 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2587 USD/h 1.4 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2587 USD/h 1.4 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2587 USD/h 1.4 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.2587 USD/h 1.4 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.28 USD/h 1.4 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 1.4 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 1.4 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2914 USD/h 1.5766 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.3027 USD/h 1.638 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.3031 USD/h 1.64 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.3086 USD/h 1.67 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.3086 USD/h 1.67 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.3101 USD/h 1.6778 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.3105 USD/h 1.68 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.3121 USD/h 1.6889 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.3123 USD/h 1.69 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.3234 USD/h 1.75 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.3256 USD/h 1.7617 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.3345 USD/h 1.81 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.3352 USD/h 1.8138 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.3493 USD/h 1.89 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.361 USD/h 1.9533 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.37 USD/h 2.002 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.37 USD/h 2.002 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.3751 USD/h 2.03 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.401 USD/h 2.17 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.401 USD/h 2.17 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.5174 USD/h 2.8 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
51.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
128 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
128 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A memory-optimized virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors and high RAM density for demanding database and enterprise workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Microsoft Azure M16bs_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the MBSMediumMemoryv3 family, featuring 16 dedicated vCPUs and 128.0 GB of RAM. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8473C processor running at 4.0 GHz, this x86_64 instance includes 8 physical cores and a 105 MB L3 cache. It supports advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and Intel AMX. The instance has no local storage, requiring external block storage. Benchmarks highlight top-tier single-core performance, with a Geekbench single-core score in the top 10% and strong single-threaded gzip compression. Multi-core and memory bandwidth metrics remain average. This virtual machine is suited for memory-intensive applications, database operations, text processing, and moderate-scale machine learning inference.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.4Score
      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) 3,124,736 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.6 50.00% 50.00% +26.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 15,440,866 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1.2 20.00% 20.00% +3.70%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,362 2,416 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 120,798 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,144 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,213

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 13,215

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 27,919
      Compression
      		 296,569
      Encryption
      		 17,610
      Extended Instructions
      		 22,140
      Floating Point Maths
      		 57,182
      Integer Maths
      		 80,505
      Physics
      		 3,648
      Prime Numbers
      		 164
      Single Threaded
      		 3,144
      String Sorting
      		 40,756

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,362
      Database Operations
      		 9,190
      Memory Latency
      		 71
      Memory Read Cached
      		 28,292
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,725
      Memory Write
      		 9,524

      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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