M208ms_v2 by Microsoft Azure

M208ms_v2 is a MSv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 208 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 208 vCPUs, 5700 GiB of memory and 4.19 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 6.4699 USD per hour.
208 vCPU
5700 GiB Memory
4.19 TB Storage
Spare SCore
187,913
(All-cores)
1,371
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M208ms_v2
Name
M208ms_v2
API Reference
Standard_M208ms_v2
Description
MSv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 208 vCPUs
Family
MSv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
88.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-27T21:24:32.165488

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US (US) / eastus
8.2458 USD/h 44.62 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
8.2458 USD/h 44.62 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
8.2458 USD/h 44.62 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
8.2458 USD/h 44.62 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
8.2458 USD/h 44.62 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
8.4932 USD/h 45.959 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 45.959 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 45.959 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
8.9054 USD/h 48.1896 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
9.2352 USD/h 49.974 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
9.3178 USD/h 50.421 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
9.6476 USD/h 52.2054 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
9.8949 USD/h 53.544 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
9.8949 USD/h 53.544 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
9.8949 USD/h 53.544 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
9.8949 USD/h 53.544 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
9.8949 USD/h 53.544 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
9.8949 USD/h 53.544 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
9.8949 USD/h 53.544 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
9.9774 USD/h 53.99 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
10.3072 USD/h 55.775 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
10.3072 USD/h 55.775 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
10.7195 USD/h 58.006 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
10.7195 USD/h 58.006 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
10.7195 USD/h 58.006 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
10.8843 USD/h 58.898 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
11.0494 USD/h 59.791 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
6.4699 USD/h 64.699 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
11.9564 USD/h 64.699 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
11.9564 USD/h 64.699 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
11.9564 USD/h 64.699 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
12.4511 USD/h 67.376 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
12.781 USD/h 69.161 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
12.781 USD/h 69.161 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
12.8634 USD/h 69.607 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
12.8634 USD/h 69.607 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
14.3642 USD/h 77.7283 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
16.0793 USD/h 87.009 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
16.739 USD/h 90.579 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
21.4386 USD/h 116.01 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
208
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
104
CPU Speed
2.7 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8280L
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
5 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
3 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
208 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
105 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
840 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, cpuid, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, avx512_vnni, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
137
Scalability
65.87

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
6 TB
Memory Amount Actual
6 TB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    4194 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 4194 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 featuring massive RAM capacity and exceptional multi-threaded performance for enterprise database workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    The Microsoft Azure M208ms_v2 is a highly specialized, memory-intensive server from the MSv2 family, running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It features 208 dedicated vCPUs powered by Intel Xeon 8280L processors at 2.7 GHz, paired with an extensive 5700.0 GB of RAM and 4194 GB of local SSD storage. While single-core CPU and memory benchmarks fall into the lower tiers, its massive parallel processing capabilities deliver top-tier multi-core performance and exceptional cached memory bandwidth of over 10,453 GB/sec. This resource density makes it highly capable for massive database operations, as evidenced by top-tier Redis SET performance. The M208ms_v2 is qualitatively positioned as a premium, high-density solution for enterprise workloads, making it best suited for large in-memory databases, heavy multi-threaded data processing, and memory-bound enterprise applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    4.6Score
    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) 16,076,918 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 8.4 50.00% 50.00% +190.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 87,996,138 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 7.3 20.00% 20.00% +49.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,731 2,416 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 380,094 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 3.5 10.00% 10.00% +13.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,963 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,117

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,847

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 83,461
    Compression
    		 2,624,623
    Encryption
    		 82,875
    Extended Instructions
    		 169,323
    Floating Point Maths
    		 336,895
    Integer Maths
    		 627,939
    Physics
    		 9,305
    Prime Numbers
    		 634
    Single Threaded
    		 1,963
    String Sorting
    		 292,411

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,731
    Database Operations
    		 18,754
    Memory Latency
    		 70
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22,348
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 5,380
    Memory Write
    		 3,977

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 117.17 44.41 0.38×
    bitops
    		 107,810 12,224,305 113.39×
    branch
    		 100,367 14,753,517 147.00×
    funccall
    		 540.9 69,025 127.61×
    funcret
    		 9,047 1,337,106 147.80×
    hash
    		 128,659 17,745,892 137.93×
    intmath
    		 47,273 5,166,686 109.29×
    nop
    		 192,073 15,683,814 81.66×
    prime
    		 353,760 41,365,917 116.93×
    rotate
    		 72,411 7,689,481 106.19×
    str
    		 656,595 95,733,251 145.80×
    wcs
    		 504,577 62,248,072 123.37×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,455 216,523 88.21×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 606.42 72,336 119.28×
    zlib
    		 37.79 7,078 187.30×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 6,267 34,516 5.51×
    clone
    		 1,161 19,137 16.48×
    context
    		 3,780 583,844 154.44×
    cpu-sched
    		 66.06 9,767 147.85×
    eventfd
    		 30,050 394,811 13.14×
    fault
    		 15,347 80,379 5.24×
    fork
    		 3,902 25,339 6.49×
    getrandom
    		 42,645 6,086,934 142.74×
    hrtimers
    		 356,875 6,561,896 18.39×
    mprotect
    		 270,898 8,875,267 32.76×
    mtx
    		 9,046,927 3,859,304,835 426.59×
    munmap
    		 2,991 25,363 8.48×
    null
    		 599,871 90,743,203 151.27×
    pipe
    		 539,870 92,697,862 171.70×
    priv-instr
    		 611,717 4,844,561 7.92×
    resched
    		 1,011,616 15,990,109 15.81×
    switch
    		 50,551 40,581,924 802.80×
    timermix
    		 187,118 7,314,331 39.09×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 3,593 87,893 24.47×
    tsc
    		 658,587 98,727,991 149.91×
    usersyscall
    		 517,094 4,828,134 9.34×
    vdso
    		 73,364,627 9,920,956,343 135.23×
    vfork
    		 16,261 72,821 4.48×
    x86syscall
    		 7,189,609 1,146,190,968 159.42×
    yield
    		 109,223,990 200,514,118 1.84×
    zero
    		 3,281,765 445,744,902 135.82×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 11,745 1,361,201 115.89×
    expmath
    		 2,550 335,976 131.77×
    fma
    		 1,003,256 126,392,965 125.98×
    fp
    		 224.28 33,023 147.24×
    fractal
    		 5.2 715.48 137.59×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,941 409,496 139.22×
    logmath
    		 3,768 544,630 144.55×
    matrix
    		 4,464 485,890 108.84×
    matrix-3d
    		 539.48 16,129 29.90×
    monte-carlo
    		 214.58 30,527 142.26×
    mpfr
    		 1,264 136,313 107.81×
    powmath
    		 1,407 203,939 144.99×
    trig
    		 1,935 250,366 129.41×
    veccmp
    		 18,690 1,995,852 106.79×
    vecfp
    		 1,769 195,481 110.51×
    vecmath
    		 2,847 384,479 135.03×
    vecshuf
    		 2,789 486,776 174.52×
    vecwide
    		 60,954 7,465,950 122.49×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 6.4 761.57 119.00×
    bsearch
    		 208.92 24,285 116.24×
    bubblesort
    		 0.6 74.6 124.33×
    fibsearch
    		 225.68 25,229 111.79×
    heapsort
    		 7.2 927.76 128.86×
    hsearch
    		 5,982 717,552 119.95×
    insertionsort
    		 9.2 812.59 88.33×
    malloc
    		 1,782,854 58,004,169 32.53×
    mcontend
    		 21.76 20,644 948.70×
    mergesort
    		 22.2 3,054 137.58×
    qsort
    		 16 2,169 135.56×
    skiplist
    		 3,964 598,700 151.05×
    tree
    		 1.4 123.59 88.28×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 92,396 3,758,078 40.67×
    cachehammer
    		 166,718 3,507,136 21.04×
    cacheline
    		 26.14 831.24 31.80×
    l1cache
    		 793.95 9,638 12.14×
    memcpy
    		 320.54 30,533 95.25×
    memrate
    		 0.59 28.18 47.76×
    memthrash
    		 205.64 1,201 5.84×
    ptr-chase
    		 29,192,398 1,724,504,531 59.07×
    spinmem
    		 252.19 318.86 1.26×
    stream
    		 0.45 8,943 19874.09×
    vm
    		 59,380 303,842 5.12×

    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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