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 0.5965 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
2026-09-23T09:48:31.722222Z

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.5965 USD/h 2.9299 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.5965 USD/h 2.9299 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.5965 USD/h 2.93 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.5965 USD/h 2.93 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.5965 USD/h 2.93 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.5965 USD/h 2.93 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.5965 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
0.6741 USD/h 3.3109 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.698 USD/h 3.4281 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.6983 USD/h 3.43 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.7146 USD/h 3.51 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.7146 USD/h 3.51 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.7149 USD/h 3.5113 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.7749 USD/h 3.516 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.7187 USD/h 3.53 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.7196 USD/h 3.5346 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.7457 USD/h 3.6625 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.7507 USD/h 3.6869 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.7755 USD/h 3.8089 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.7757 USD/h 3.81 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.8053 USD/h 3.9555 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.8352 USD/h 4.102 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.8531 USD/h 4.1899 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.8531 USD/h 4.1899 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.865 USD/h 4.2485 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.9246 USD/h 4.5415 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.9246 USD/h 4.5415 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.1931 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
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-frequency, memory-optimized virtual server with dedicated Intel Xeon cores and local storage for demanding database and caching workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    The Microsoft Azure M32bds_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family, powered by a dedicated Intel Xeon 8473C processor. Operating at 4.0 GHz, it provides 32 vCPUs, 256.0 GB of RAM, and 410 GB of local storage. The system features advanced CPU capabilities like AVX-512 and AMX. In benchmarks, the instance delivers strong performance in single-core and multi-core Geekbench tests, alongside high static web serving throughput of 52.78 GB/sec and rapid single-threaded gzip compression. However, the lack of a GPU limits its efficiency for large-scale AI workloads, as evidenced by a weak 2.74 tokens/sec in 70B LLM text generation. This server represents a balanced, high-density resource profile for memory-intensive enterprise applications, making it highly suitable for database operations, in-memory caching, and data processing tasks.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    2.29Score
    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 2,031,101 ops/sec 3.08 50.00% 50.00% +75.50%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 30,426,727 ops/sec 12,409,308 ops/sec 2.45 20.00% 20.00% +19.60%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,383 2,418 0.986 10.00% 10.00% -0.14%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 196,003 MB/sec 108,315 MB/sec 1.81 10.00% 10.00% +6.11%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,148 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.33 10.00% 10.00% +2.89%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,197

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 18,223

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 47553
    Compression
    		 570528
    Encryption
    		 33183
    Extended Instructions
    		 42224
    Floating Point Maths
    		 109902
    Integer Maths
    		 150334
    Physics
    		 5812
    Prime Numbers
    		 306
    Single Threaded
    		 3148
    String Sorting
    		 77322

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2383
    Database Operations
    		 17058
    Memory Latency
    		 71
    Memory Read Cached
    		 27201
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10640
    Memory Write
    		 9389

    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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