M32bds_v3 by Microsoft Azure

M32bds_v3 is a MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 410 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.6119 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
410 GB Storage
Spare SCore
33,776
(All-cores)
2,060
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M32bds_v3
Name
M32bds_v3
API Reference
Standard_M32bds_v3
Description
MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs
Family
MBDSMediumMemoryv3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-08T07:01:34.124212

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.7231 USD/h 2.9299 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.7231 USD/h 2.9299 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.6446 USD/h 2.93 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.7231 USD/h 2.93 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.7231 USD/h 2.93 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.7231 USD/h 2.93 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.7231 USD/h 2.93 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.7231 USD/h 2.93 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 2.93 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 2.93 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.6119 USD/h 3.3109 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.8461 USD/h 3.4281 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.8465 USD/h 3.43 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.8663 USD/h 3.51 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.8663 USD/h 3.51 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.8666 USD/h 3.5113 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.9391 USD/h 3.516 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.8712 USD/h 3.53 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.8723 USD/h 3.5346 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.9039 USD/h 3.6625 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.9099 USD/h 3.6869 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.94 USD/h 3.8089 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.9403 USD/h 3.81 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.9762 USD/h 3.9555 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
1.0124 USD/h 4.102 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.9218 USD/h 4.1899 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
1.0341 USD/h 4.1899 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
1.0485 USD/h 4.2485 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
1.1208 USD/h 4.5415 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
1.1208 USD/h 4.5415 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.4462 USD/h 5.86 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
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
768 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
105 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
105 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
16.4
Scalability
51.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
256 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
256 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    410 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 410 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized x86_64 platform featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processing, substantial RAM density, and local SSD storage for demanding enterprise workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure M32bds_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family, featuring 32 vCPUs and 256.0 GB of RAM. Powered by a dedicated Intel Xeon 8473C processor running at 4.0 GHz, this x86_64 server includes a local 410 GB SSD and supports premium block storage. Benchmarks show strong performance in single-core and multi-core Geekbench tests, as well as high-throughput static web serving. However, memory bandwidth drops significantly for large uncached blocks, and LLM inference on large 70B models is weak at 2.74 tokens/sec due to the absence of GPU acceleration. This server is best suited for memory-intensive workloads, software compilation, and database operations that benefit from its 8.0 GB per core memory allocation and dedicated compute resources.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    2.4Score
    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) 6,254,076 ops/sec 1,922,940 ops/sec 3.3 50.00% 50.00% +82.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 30,426,727 ops/sec 11,797,257 ops/sec 2.5 20.00% 20.00% +20.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,383 2,406 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 196,003 MB/sec 108,657 MB/sec 1.8 10.00% 10.00% +6.10%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,148 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,197

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 18,223

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 47,553
    Compression
    		 570,528
    Encryption
    		 33,183
    Extended Instructions
    		 42,224
    Floating Point Maths
    		 109,902
    Integer Maths
    		 150,334
    Physics
    		 5,812
    Prime Numbers
    		 306
    Single Threaded
    		 3,148
    String Sorting
    		 77,322

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,383
    Database Operations
    		 17,058
    Memory Latency
    		 71
    Memory Read Cached
    		 27,201
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10,640
    Memory Write
    		 9,389

    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

    Alternatives

    Servers of the Same Family

    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYAccelerators
    M16bds_v3 16128 GiB0
    M48bds_v3 48384 GiB0
    M96-48bds_2_v3 481946 GiB0
    M64bds_v3 64512 GiB0
    M128-64bds_v3 641024 GiB0
    M64bds_1_v3 641397 GiB0
    M128-64bds_3_v3 642794 GiB0

    Similar Servers

    INSTANCEVENDORvCPUsMEMORYAccelerators

    M32bds_v3 FAQs