M176-88bs_v3 by Microsoft Azure

M176-88bs_v3 is a MBSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 176 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 88 vCPUs, 1536 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 2.8348 USD per hour.
88 vCPU
1536 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
85,935
(All-cores)
2,059
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M176-88bs_v3
Name
M176-88bs_v3
API Reference
Standard_M176-88bs_v3
Description
MBSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 176 vCPUs
Family
Memory Optimized
Series
Mbsv3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
50
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-15T07:32:27.174925

Availability

Region / IDSpotOndemand
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
4.0538 USD/h
-
Central India (IN) / centralindia
2.8348 USD/h
15.34 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
2.8348 USD/h
15.34 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
2.8348 USD/h
15.34 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
2.8348 USD/h
15.34 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
2.8348 USD/h
15.34 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
2.8348 USD/h
15.34 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
2.8348 USD/h
15.34 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
2.8348 USD/h
15.34 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
-
15.34 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
-
15.34 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
3.2044 USD/h
17.34 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
3.3168 USD/h
17.9478 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
3.3172 USD/h
17.95 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
3.3973 USD/h
18.3837 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
3.4018 USD/h
18.408 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
3.4018 USD/h
18.408 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
3.4022 USD/h
18.41 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
3.4198 USD/h
18.5054 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
3.4206 USD/h
18.51 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
3.5435 USD/h
19.175 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
3.5672 USD/h
19.3028 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
3.6849 USD/h
19.94 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
3.6853 USD/h
19.942 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
3.827 USD/h
20.709 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
3.9688 USD/h
21.476 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
4.0538 USD/h
21.9362 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
4.1105 USD/h
22.243 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
4.394 USD/h
23.777 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
4.394 USD/h
23.777 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
5.6697 USD/h
30.68 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
47.39

System Resources and Accelerators

Memory
Memory Amount
2 TB
Memory Amount Actual
2 TB
Accelerators
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    Storage
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      Compatible Storage IDs
      PremiumV2_LRS, Premium_LRS, Premium_ZRS, StandardSSD_LRS, StandardSSD_ZRS, Standard_LRS, UltraSSD_LRS
      Network
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A high-frequency, memory-optimized virtual server designed for demanding enterprise databases, in-memory caching, and intensive data processing workloads.

      Microsoft Azure M176-88bs_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the MBSMediumMemoryv3 family, powered by a dedicated 4.0 GHz Intel Xeon 8473C processor. Operating on the x86_64 architecture via Microsoft Hyper-V, it features 88 vCPUs and 1536.0 GB of RAM, providing a high memory-to-core ratio of 17.45 GB. While it lacks local storage, it is optimized for premium block storage. Benchmarks show top-tier performance in database operations, Passmark CPU scores, and memory bandwidth, with large-block reads reaching 420.52 GB/sec. Multi-core compute and Redis operations also rank in the top 25%. This server is highly suited for memory-intensive workloads, including large-scale databases, in-memory caching, and enterprise data analytics.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      4.9Score
      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) 15,570,704 ops/sec 1,933,252 ops/sec 8.4 50.00% 50.00% +190.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 74,561,530 ops/sec 11,814,424 ops/sec 6.2 20.00% 20.00% +44.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,437 2,408 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 456,385 MB/sec 108,674 MB/sec 4.2 10.00% 10.00% +15.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,126 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,194

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 20,629

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 93,807
      Compression
      		 1,509,284
      Encryption
      		 90,692
      Extended Instructions
      		 116,478
      Floating Point Maths
      		 292,915
      Integer Maths
      		 411,409
      Physics
      		 12,776
      Prime Numbers
      		 756
      Single Threaded
      		 3,126
      String Sorting
      		 203,192

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,437
      Database Operations
      		 34,450
      Memory Latency
      		 69
      Memory Read Cached
      		 28,344
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,366
      Memory Write
      		 9,035

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 203.65 95.68 0.47×
      bitops
      		 156,093 7,808,671 50.03×
      branch
      		 145,284 9,389,724 64.63×
      funccall
      		 786.8 42,234 53.68×
      funcret
      		 13,260 847,380 63.90×
      hash
      		 186,495 11,098,158 59.51×
      intmath
      		 69,422 3,265,373 47.04×
      nop
      		 276,798 9,119,282 32.95×
      prime
      		 498,116 24,369,822 48.92×
      rotate
      		 106,173 4,680,309 44.08×
      str
      		 959,898 58,598,124 61.05×
      wcs
      		 726,022 37,697,491 51.92×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,595 141,821 39.45×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 879.06 45,971 52.30×
      zlib
      		 56.21 4,347 77.33×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 28,784 165,315 5.74×
      clone
      		 1,361 32,083 23.57×
      context
      		 5,675 386,680 68.13×
      cpu-sched
      		 73.5 5,518 75.07×
      eventfd
      		 35,449 2,876,946 81.16×
      fault
      		 22,531 195,075 8.66×
      fork
      		 5,654 51,815 9.16×
      getrandom
      		 61,529 3,753,684 61.01×
      hrtimers
      		 1,086,257 11,598,172 10.68×
      mprotect
      		 568,752 15,592,068 27.41×
      mtx
      		 33,473,202 2,333,638,150 69.72×
      munmap
      		 4,486 58,022 12.93×
      null
      		 911,851 57,862,629 63.46×
      pipe
      		 680,707 50,090,569 73.59×
      priv-instr
      		 905,762 10,573,469 11.67×
      resched
      		 10,600,103 8,579,543 0.81×
      switch
      		 41,629 25,870,314 621.45×
      timermix
      		 257,113 16,128,645 62.73×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 4,551 111,532 24.51×
      tsc
      		 962,693 60,793,544 63.15×
      usersyscall
      		 765,839 10,435,297 13.63×
      vdso
      		 112,244,071 6,827,360,947 60.83×
      vfork
      		 24,683 152,370 6.17×
      x86syscall
      		 10,969,771 764,972,475 69.73×
      yield
      		 105,653,607 122,792,431 1.16×
      zero
      		 6,137,690 408,170,203 66.50×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 17,041 893,048 52.40×
      expmath
      		 3,704 223,401 60.32×
      fma
      		 1,457,146 83,309,548 57.17×
      fp
      		 324 20,453 63.13×
      fractal
      		 7.4 433.29 58.55×
      hyperbolic
      		 4,297 251,613 58.56×
      logmath
      		 5,487 354,875 64.67×
      matrix
      		 6,431 294,394 45.78×
      matrix-3d
      		 671.96 13,450 20.02×
      monte-carlo
      		 312.87 20,787 66.44×
      mpfr
      		 1,837 83,292 45.35×
      powmath
      		 2,058 126,825 61.64×
      trig
      		 2,824 152,593 54.04×
      veccmp
      		 27,120 1,254,748 46.27×
      vecfp
      		 2,438 114,237 46.86×
      vecmath
      		 4,167 243,297 58.38×
      vecshuf
      		 4,071 316,853 77.83×
      vecwide
      		 86,185 4,475,733 51.93×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 9.4 460.79 49.02×
      bsearch
      		 303.33 15,743 51.90×
      bubblesort
      		 1 52.8 52.80×
      fibsearch
      		 322.34 16,426 50.96×
      heapsort
      		 10.4 580.39 55.81×
      hsearch
      		 8,807 436,730 49.59×
      insertionsort
      		 13.4 484 36.12×
      malloc
      		 2,849,380 67,039,370 23.53×
      mcontend
      		 54.65 13,501 247.05×
      mergesort
      		 32.6 1,892 58.03×
      qsort
      		 23 1,328 57.74×
      skiplist
      		 5,773 374,109 64.80×
      tree
      		 1.8 73.4 40.78×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 259,156 7,423,295 28.64×
      cachehammer
      		 204,326 5,125,496 25.08×
      cacheline
      		 35.17 2,861 81.34×
      l1cache
      		 1,171 17,264 14.74×
      memcpy
      		 463.74 18,873 40.70×
      memrate
      		 0.17 13.35 78.53×
      memthrash
      		 185.12 1,444 7.80×
      ptr-chase
      		 32,866,649 806,727,365 24.55×
      spinmem
      		 356.39 1,469 4.12×
      stream
      		 3.56 7,589 2131.60×
      vm
      		 171,117 306,148 1.79×

      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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