M176bs_v3 by Microsoft Azure

M176bs_v3 is a MBSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 176 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 176 vCPUs, 1536 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 2.8348 USD per hour.
176 vCPU
1536 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
141,598
(All-cores)
2,044
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M176bs_v3
Name
M176bs_v3
API Reference
Standard_M176bs_v3
Description
MBSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 176 vCPUs
Family
MBSMediumMemoryv3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-02T04:46:25.554232

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
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
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
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
4.0538 USD/h 21.9362 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
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
69.3
Scalability
78.75

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
    0 GB
    Storages
    • 0 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A high-core, memory-dense virtual machine delivering top-tier multi-threaded performance and massive memory bandwidth for enterprise database workloads.

    Memory OptimizedCompute Optimized

    Microsoft Azure M176bs_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the MBSMediumMemoryv3 family, powered by an Intel Xeon 8473C processor running at 4.0 GHz. It features 176 dedicated vCPUs across 88 physical cores and 1536.0 GB of RAM, yielding 8.73 GB of memory per core. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this x86_64 server lacks local storage and GPUs but is Premium Storage capable. The processor includes a 105 MB L3 cache and supports Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) and AVX-512. Benchmarks indicate top-tier multi-core CPU performance, memory bandwidth, and database operations, alongside strong performance in LLM inference and software compilation. Single-core performance remains average. This hardware profile is highly suited for large-scale databases, Redis deployments, and memory-intensive enterprise workloads requiring high multi-threaded compute capacity.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    6.71Score
    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) 24,663,990 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 12.9 50.00% 50.00% +259.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 114,487,757 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 9.8 20.00% 20.00% +57.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,420 2,418 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 457,934 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 4.23 10.00% 10.00% +15.50%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,054 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.29 10.00% 10.00% +2.58%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,192

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 20,087

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 117453
    Compression
    		 2470805
    Encryption
    		 149081
    Extended Instructions
    		 175305
    Floating Point Maths
    		 482661
    Integer Maths
    		 677444
    Physics
    		 13810
    Prime Numbers
    		 958
    Single Threaded
    		 3054
    String Sorting
    		 324935

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2420
    Database Operations
    		 34000
    Memory Latency
    		 70
    Memory Read Cached
    		 27776
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10291
    Memory Write
    		 8956

    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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