M176bds_4_v3 by Microsoft Azure

M176bds_4_v3 is a MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 176 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 176 vCPUs, 3892 GiB of memory and 8.19 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 13.1213 USD per hour.
176 vCPU
3892 GiB Memory
8.19 TB Storage
Spare SCore
141,598
(All-cores)
2,054
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M176bds_4_v3
Name
M176bds_4_v3
API Reference
Standard_M176bds_4_v3
Description
MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 176 vCPUs
Family
MBDSMediumMemoryv3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
61
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-07T13:14:48.414851

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 3 (US) / westus3
15.5069 USD/h -
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
20.1586 USD/h -
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
13.8226 USD/h 62.83 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
15.5064 USD/h 62.83 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
15.5064 USD/h 62.83 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
15.5064 USD/h 62.83 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
15.5064 USD/h 62.83 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
15.5064 USD/h 62.83 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 62.83 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 62.83 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
15.5069 USD/h 62.832 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
13.1213 USD/h 71.0025 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
18.1423 USD/h 73.51 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
18.1425 USD/h 73.5111 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
18.5831 USD/h 75.2963 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
20.1383 USD/h 75.396 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
18.6087 USD/h 75.4 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
18.6087 USD/h 75.4 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
18.705 USD/h 75.79 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
18.7062 USD/h 75.7949 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
19.3831 USD/h 78.5375 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
19.5123 USD/h 79.0611 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
20.159 USD/h 81.6816 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
20.9337 USD/h 84.8205 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
21.7103 USD/h 87.9672 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
19.7663 USD/h 89.8469 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
22.1742 USD/h 89.8469 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
22.4843 USD/h 91.1035 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
24.035 USD/h 97.3865 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
24.035 USD/h 97.3865 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
31.0129 USD/h 125.66 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
176
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
88
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
4 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
3 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
176 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
68.9
Scalability
39.15

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
4 TB
Memory Amount Actual
4 TB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    8192 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 8192 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-density memory and compute platform featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors and integrated local SSD storage for enterprise workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseCompute Optimized

    Microsoft Azure M176bds_4_v3 is a memory-optimized server from the MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family, running on Microsoft Hyper-V. It features 176 dedicated vCPUs powered by Intel Xeon 8473C processors at 4.0 GHz, 3892.0 GB of RAM, and an 8192 GB local SSD. This hardware configuration delivers top-tier multi-core CPU performance and memory bandwidth, with stress-ng multi-core scoring 141597.52 and uncached read bandwidth reaching 432.05 GB/sec. While single-core benchmarks sit in the average tier, the server excels in multi-threaded workloads, database operations, and Redis SET transactions, where it processes 169.15 million operations per second. It is suited for large-scale databases, in-memory caching, and heavy data processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    6.8Score
    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) 24,169,956 ops/sec 1,933,252 ops/sec 13 50.00% 50.00% +260.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 119,057,416 ops/sec 11,803,344 ops/sec 10 20.00% 20.00% +58.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,420 2,407 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 456,771 MB/sec 108,651 MB/sec 4.2 10.00% 10.00% +15.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,059 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,186

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 20,122

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 117,204
    Compression
    		 2,460,216
    Encryption
    		 148,693
    Extended Instructions
    		 172,343
    Floating Point Maths
    		 482,313
    Integer Maths
    		 677,421
    Physics
    		 13,757
    Prime Numbers
    		 945
    Single Threaded
    		 3,059
    String Sorting
    		 319,999

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,420
    Database Operations
    		 33,920
    Memory Latency
    		 70
    Memory Read Cached
    		 27,790
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9,932
    Memory Write
    		 9,547

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 190.85 41.09 0.22×
    bitops
    		 151,742 12,713,377 83.78×
    branch
    		 140,846 15,324,927 108.81×
    funccall
    		 759.06 69,996 92.21×
    funcret
    		 12,638 1,420,231 112.37×
    hash
    		 181,003 18,274,623 100.96×
    intmath
    		 66,699 5,292,785 79.35×
    nop
    		 279,608 15,179,033 54.29×
    prime
    		 483,716 40,085,673 82.87×
    rotate
    		 105,811 7,575,944 71.60×
    str
    		 981,185 94,655,509 96.47×
    wcs
    		 735,059 58,580,393 79.69×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 3,589 231,286 64.44×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 863.35 74,750 86.58×
    zlib
    		 66.34 6,672 100.58×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 21,426 128,088 5.98×
    clone
    		 1,311 34,191 26.08×
    context
    		 5,624 626,271 111.36×
    cpu-sched
    		 70.39 10,963 155.75×
    eventfd
    		 34,182 2,732,239 79.93×
    fault
    		 26,692 150,161 5.63×
    fork
    		 4,754 40,604 8.54×
    getrandom
    		 62,274 6,158,399 98.89×
    hrtimers
    		 227,597 14,131,258 62.09×
    mprotect
    		 555,463 14,090,650 25.37×
    mtx
    		 26,609,570 3,244,008,371 121.91×
    munmap
    		 3,851 41,421 10.76×
    null
    		 875,292 95,554,200 109.17×
    pipe
    		 696,342 88,066,822 126.47×
    priv-instr
    		 869,599 7,311,380 8.41×
    resched
    		 9,675,848 19,514,173 2.02×
    switch
    		 38,883 32,431,454 834.08×
    timermix
    		 262,366 20,689,323 78.86×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 6,307 141,844 22.49×
    tsc
    		 928,833 99,251,718 106.86×
    usersyscall
    		 730,129 7,259,643 9.94×
    vdso
    		 108,707,182 11,092,893,443 102.04×
    vfork
    		 21,906 141,236 6.45×
    x86syscall
    		 10,614,872 1,240,619,635 116.88×
    yield
    		 144,828,018 179,333,139 1.24×
    zero
    		 5,898,304 674,117,606 114.29×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 16,289 1,451,680 89.12×
    expmath
    		 3,565 363,484 101.97×
    fma
    		 1,408,598 137,081,796 97.32×
    fp
    		 314.4 34,042 108.28×
    fractal
    		 7.2 715.49 99.37×
    hyperbolic
    		 4,248 415,578 97.82×
    logmath
    		 5,353 584,247 109.14×
    matrix
    		 6,627 468,255 70.66×
    matrix-3d
    		 636.54 15,373 24.15×
    monte-carlo
    		 302.28 34,538 114.26×
    mpfr
    		 1,784 136,879 76.75×
    powmath
    		 2,015 209,754 104.09×
    trig
    		 2,785 247,313 88.80×
    veccmp
    		 26,262 1,973,821 75.16×
    vecfp
    		 2,323 179,510 77.26×
    vecmath
    		 3,970 396,325 99.84×
    vecshuf
    		 3,909 515,166 131.77×
    vecwide
    		 84,855 6,915,859 81.50×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 9.2 741.98 80.65×
    bsearch
    		 293.84 26,177 89.09×
    bubblesort
    		 1 71 71.00×
    fibsearch
    		 317.71 26,629 83.82×
    heapsort
    		 10.2 957.17 93.84×
    hsearch
    		 8,167 730,283 89.42×
    insertionsort
    		 13.4 801.99 59.85×
    malloc
    		 2,803,339 109,942,959 39.22×
    mcontend
    		 54.32 22,805 419.83×
    mergesort
    		 32.4 3,087 95.29×
    qsort
    		 22.4 2,130 95.08×
    skiplist
    		 5,543 615,182 110.99×
    tree
    		 1.8 105.39 58.55×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 217,434 10,416,913 47.91×
    cachehammer
    		 214,986 9,563,599 44.48×
    cacheline
    		 33.37 2,585 77.46×
    l1cache
    		 1,125 23,121 20.56×
    memcpy
    		 469.83 30,807 65.57×
    memrate
    		 0.17 23.36 137.41×
    memthrash
    		 295.9 1,886 6.37×
    ptr-chase
    		 30,815,635 1,400,034,386 45.43×
    spinmem
    		 361.78 1,039 2.87×
    stream
    		 3.6 14,845 4123.60×
    vm
    		 170,717 596,931 3.50×

    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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