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M176-88bds_v3 by Microsoft Azure

M176-88bds_v3 is a MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 176 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 88 vCPUs, 1536 GiB of memory and 410 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 2.9771 USD per hour.
88 vCPU
1536 GiB Memory
410 GB Storage
Spare SCore
85903
(All-cores)
2058
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M176-88bds_v3
Name
M176-88bds_v3
API Reference
Standard_M176-88bds_v3
Description
MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 176 vCPUs
Family
MBDSMediumMemoryv3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
112
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-02T03:01:17.701854

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
2.9771 USD/h 16.11 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
2.9771 USD/h 16.11 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
2.9771 USD/h 16.11 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
2.9771 USD/h 16.11 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
2.9771 USD/h 16.11 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 16.11 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 16.11 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
2.978 USD/h 16.1146 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
2.978 USD/h 16.1146 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
3.3652 USD/h 18.21 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
3.4832 USD/h 18.8487 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
3.4835 USD/h 18.85 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
3.5678 USD/h 19.3064 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
3.5722 USD/h 19.33 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
3.5722 USD/h 19.33 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
3.8664 USD/h 19.332 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
3.5907 USD/h 19.43 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
3.5915 USD/h 19.4343 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
3.7214 USD/h 20.1375 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
3.7462 USD/h 20.2718 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
3.8697 USD/h 20.94 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
3.8714 USD/h 20.9489 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
4.0191 USD/h 21.7485 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
4.1693 USD/h 22.561 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
4.2573 USD/h 23.0373 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
4.2573 USD/h 23.0373 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
4.3168 USD/h 23.3595 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
4.6145 USD/h 24.9705 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
4.6145 USD/h 24.9705 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
5.9543 USD/h 32.22 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
88
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
44
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
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
88 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
41.7
Scalability
94.77

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
2 TB
Memory Amount Actual
2 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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A high-capacity memory-optimized server with dedicated Intel Xeon processors, designed for intensive database operations and large in-memory workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure M176-88bds_v3 is an x86_64 memory-optimized server from the MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family, running on Microsoft Hyper-V. It features an Intel Xeon 8473C processor with 44 physical cores, 88 dedicated vCPUs clocked at 4.0 GHz, and 1536.0 GB of RAM, providing 17.45 GB of memory per core. The instance includes 410 GB of local storage and is premium storage capable. Performance benchmarks show top-tier results in Geekbench multi-core scoring, Passmark CPU metrics, and large-block memory bandwidth, alongside strong Redis SET operations. While single-core performance and Passmark memory scores remain average, the server's high memory-to-vCPU ratio and strong multi-threaded capabilities make it highly efficient for large-scale database operations, in-memory caching, software compilation, and medium-scale language model inference.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    4.96Score
    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) 15,495,115 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 8.17 50.00% 50.00% +186.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 74,493,985 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 6.46 20.00% 20.00% +45.20%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,496 2,411 1.04 10.00% 10.00% +0.39%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 456,008 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 4.25 10.00% 10.00% +15.60%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,166 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.34 10.00% 10.00% +2.97%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,181

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 20,824

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 94298
    Compression
    		 1507410
    Encryption
    		 90519
    Extended Instructions
    		 114813
    Floating Point Maths
    		 292827
    Integer Maths
    		 411162
    Physics
    		 13090
    Prime Numbers
    		 762
    Single Threaded
    		 3166
    String Sorting
    		 204846

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2496
    Database Operations
    		 34868
    Memory Latency
    		 70
    Memory Read Cached
    		 28060
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11215
    Memory Write
    		 9940

    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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