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 12.7922 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
2026-09-22T20:28:48.880960Z

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
12.7922 USD/h 62.83 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
12.7922 USD/h 62.83 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
12.7922 USD/h 62.83 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
12.7922 USD/h 62.83 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
12.7922 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
12.7926 USD/h 62.832 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
12.7926 USD/h 62.832 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
14.4561 USD/h 71.0025 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
14.9666 USD/h 73.51 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
14.9669 USD/h 73.5111 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
15.3303 USD/h 75.2963 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
16.6173 USD/h 75.396 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
15.3514 USD/h 75.4 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
15.3514 USD/h 75.4 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
15.4308 USD/h 75.79 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
15.4318 USD/h 75.7949 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
15.9902 USD/h 78.5375 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
16.0968 USD/h 79.0611 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
16.63 USD/h 81.68 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
16.6304 USD/h 81.6816 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
17.2695 USD/h 84.8205 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
17.9101 USD/h 87.9672 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
18.2928 USD/h 89.8469 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
18.2928 USD/h 89.8469 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
18.5487 USD/h 91.1035 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
19.8279 USD/h 97.3865 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
19.8279 USD/h 97.3865 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
25.5844 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
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    8192 GB
    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-optimized platform with massive local storage and advanced matrix extensions for enterprise database workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure M176bds_4_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family, designed for resource-intensive enterprise workloads. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8473C processor with 176 dedicated vCPUs (88 physical cores) running at 4.0 GHz, it features 3892.0 GB of RAM and 8192 GB of local storage. The system delivers top-tier performance in multi-core processing, memory bandwidth, and database operations, as demonstrated by stress-ng and Passmark benchmarks. It supports advanced instruction sets such as AVX-512 and Intel AMX for accelerated matrix operations. This server is highly suited for large-scale in-memory databases, data analytics, and complex virtualization environments.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    6.68Score
    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 1,919,696 ops/sec 12.6 50.00% 50.00% +255.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 119,057,416 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 10.1 20.00% 20.00% +58.80%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,420 2,418 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 456,771 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 4.22 10.00% 10.00% +15.50%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,059 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.29 10.00% 10.00% +2.58%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,186

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 20,122

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 117204
    Compression
    		 2460216
    Encryption
    		 148693
    Extended Instructions
    		 172343
    Floating Point Maths
    		 482313
    Integer Maths
    		 677421
    Physics
    		 13757
    Prime Numbers
    		 945
    Single Threaded
    		 3059
    String Sorting
    		 319999

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2420
    Database Operations
    		 33920
    Memory Latency
    		 70
    Memory Read Cached
    		 27790
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9932
    Memory Write
    		 9547

    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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