M176bds_v3 by Microsoft Azure

M176bds_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, 1536 GiB of memory and 410 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 3.28 USD per hour.
176 vCPU
1536 GiB Memory
410 GB Storage
Spare SCore
141,483
(All-cores)
2,055
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M176bds_v3
Name
M176bds_v3
API Reference
Standard_M176bds_v3
Description
MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 176 vCPUs
Family
MBDSMediumMemoryv3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-13T07:43:57.130275

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
3.28 USD/h 16.11 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
3.28 USD/h 16.11 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
3.28 USD/h 16.11 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
3.28 USD/h 16.11 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
3.28 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
3.2809 USD/h 16.1146 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
3.2809 USD/h 16.1146 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
3.7076 USD/h 18.21 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
3.8376 USD/h 18.8487 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
3.8379 USD/h 18.85 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
3.9308 USD/h 19.3064 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
3.9356 USD/h 19.33 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
3.9356 USD/h 19.33 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
4.2608 USD/h 19.332 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
3.9559 USD/h 19.43 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
3.9568 USD/h 19.4343 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
4.1 USD/h 20.1375 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
4.1273 USD/h 20.2718 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
4.2634 USD/h 20.94 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
4.2652 USD/h 20.9489 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
4.428 USD/h 21.7485 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
4.5934 USD/h 22.561 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
4.6904 USD/h 23.0373 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
4.6904 USD/h 23.0373 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
4.756 USD/h 23.3595 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
5.084 USD/h 24.9705 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
5.084 USD/h 24.9705 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
6.56 USD/h 32.22 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
68.8
Scalability
78.18

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

    Server Description

    A high-density compute and memory platform engineered for massive parallel processing, enterprise databases, and high-throughput memory-bound workloads.

    Memory OptimizedCompute OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure M176bds_v3 is a high-capacity server in the MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family, featuring 176 dedicated vCPUs powered by Intel Xeon 8473C processors at 4.0 GHz and 1536.0 GB of RAM. Designed for memory-intensive and highly parallelized workloads, it includes a 410 GB local disk and supports premium block storage. Benchmark results place this instance in the top tier for multi-core processing, memory bandwidth, and database operations, with Redis SET performance reaching 170.86 million operations per second. The processor includes Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) and AVX-512, enabling strong performance in CPU-based LLM inference and cryptographic tasks. While single-core performance is average, its massive resource density makes it highly efficient for large-scale databases, software compilation, and high-throughput enterprise applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    6.74Score
    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) 24,354,090 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 12.7 50.00% 50.00% +256.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 116,491,918 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 9.97 20.00% 20.00% +58.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,520 2,418 1.04 10.00% 10.00% +0.39%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 457,652 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 4.23 10.00% 10.00% +15.50%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,157 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.34 10.00% 10.00% +2.97%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,176

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 20,045

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 119418
    Compression
    		 2466564
    Encryption
    		 148967
    Extended Instructions
    		 173929
    Floating Point Maths
    		 482437
    Integer Maths
    		 677341
    Physics
    		 13795
    Prime Numbers
    		 962
    Single Threaded
    		 3157
    String Sorting
    		 323653

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2520
    Database Operations
    		 34532
    Memory Latency
    		 69
    Memory Read Cached
    		 28231
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11504
    Memory Write
    		 10011

    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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