M32bs_v3 by Microsoft Azure

M32bs_v3 is a MBSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.5156 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
33,776
(All-cores)
2,060
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M32bs_v3
Name
M32bs_v3
API Reference
Standard_M32bs_v3
Description
MBSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs
Family
MBSMediumMemoryv3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-28T23:37:32.107418

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.5156 USD/h 2.79 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.5156 USD/h 2.79 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.5156 USD/h 2.79 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.5156 USD/h 2.79 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.5156 USD/h 2.79 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.5156 USD/h 2.79 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.5156 USD/h 2.79 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.558 USD/h 2.79 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 2.79 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 2.79 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.5827 USD/h 3.1533 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.6024 USD/h 3.26 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.6032 USD/h 3.2643 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.6179 USD/h 3.3436 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.6187 USD/h 3.348 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.6187 USD/h 3.348 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.6191 USD/h 3.35 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.622 USD/h 3.3657 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.6228 USD/h 3.37 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.6445 USD/h 3.4875 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.6488 USD/h 3.5107 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.6703 USD/h 3.627 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.6708 USD/h 3.63 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.696 USD/h 3.7665 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.7218 USD/h 3.906 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.7373 USD/h 3.9897 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.7373 USD/h 3.9897 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.7476 USD/h 4.0455 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.7992 USD/h 4.3245 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.7992 USD/h 4.3245 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.0312 USD/h 5.58 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
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A memory-optimized virtual machine featuring dedicated high-frequency Intel processors and dense memory configurations for demanding database and caching workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Microsoft Azure M32bs_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 32 dedicated vCPUs (16 physical cores) and 256.0 GB of RAM, providing a high memory-to-core ratio of 8.0 GB. This instance does not include local storage or GPUs, relying on external premium block storage. Performance benchmarks show strong capabilities in Geekbench single-core and multi-core tests, static web serving, and gzip compression, alongside average performance in database operations and Redis SET transactions. While it supports advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and AMX for AI workloads, text generation for large 70B models is weak due to the lack of dedicated GPU hardware. The M32bs_v3 is highly suited for memory-intensive workloads, including database management, caching, and medium-scale data processing.

      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) 6,261,445 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 3.3 50.00% 50.00% +82.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 30,360,060 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 2.5 20.00% 20.00% +20.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,396 2,416 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 198,057 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1.8 10.00% 10.00% +6.10%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,149 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,210

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 18,347

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 48,282
      Compression
      		 571,700
      Encryption
      		 34,428
      Extended Instructions
      		 43,885
      Floating Point Maths
      		 111,034
      Integer Maths
      		 156,226
      Physics
      		 5,718
      Prime Numbers
      		 309
      Single Threaded
      		 3,149
      String Sorting
      		 77,722

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,396
      Database Operations
      		 17,241
      Memory Latency
      		 70
      Memory Read Cached
      		 27,841
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,603
      Memory Write
      		 9,285

      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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