M48bds_v3 by Microsoft Azure

M48bds_v3 is a MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 48 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 48 vCPUs, 384 GiB of memory and 410 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.9178 USD per hour.
48 vCPU
384 GiB Memory
410 GB Storage
Spare SCore
44,591
(All-cores)
2,056
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M48bds_v3
Name
M48bds_v3
API Reference
Standard_M48bds_v3
Description
MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 48 vCPUs
Family
MBDSMediumMemoryv3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
36.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-07T16:27:00.126447

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.9658 USD/h -
Central India (IN) / centralindia
1.0835 USD/h 4.39 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
1.0835 USD/h 4.39 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
1.0835 USD/h 4.39 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
1.0835 USD/h 4.39 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
1.0835 USD/h 4.39 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 4.39 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 4.39 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
1.0847 USD/h 4.3949 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
1.0847 USD/h 4.3949 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.9178 USD/h 4.9664 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
1.2676 USD/h 5.1363 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
1.2686 USD/h 5.14 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
1.2984 USD/h 5.261 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
1.4071 USD/h 5.268 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
1.3006 USD/h 5.27 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
1.3006 USD/h 5.27 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
1.307 USD/h 5.2959 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
1.308 USD/h 5.3 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
1.3543 USD/h 5.4875 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
1.3633 USD/h 5.5241 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
1.4092 USD/h 5.71 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
1.4101 USD/h 5.7133 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
1.4627 USD/h 5.9265 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
1.5186 USD/h 6.153 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
1.3811 USD/h 6.2777 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
1.5493 USD/h 6.2777 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
1.571 USD/h 6.3655 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
1.6794 USD/h 6.8045 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
1.6794 USD/h 6.8045 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
2.1669 USD/h 8.78 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
48
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
24
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
1 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
768 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
48 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
21.7
Scalability
45.21

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
384 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
384 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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized virtual machine with dedicated Intel Xeon processing and local SSD storage for database and analytical workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure M48bds_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family, configured with 48 vCPUs and 384.0 GB of RAM. Powered by a dedicated Intel Xeon 8473C processor running at 4.0 GHz, this x86_64 server features 24 physical cores and a 105 MB L3 cache. It includes a 410 GB local SSD and supports premium storage, with no GPU accelerators. Benchmark data highlights strong performance in memory bandwidth, software compilation, and image processing, alongside robust database operations. The hardware supports advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and Intel AMX for vector and matrix math acceleration. This configuration is highly suitable for memory-intensive databases, enterprise applications, and medium-scale language model inference workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    2.9Score
    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) 8,300,196 ops/sec 1,933,252 ops/sec 4.4 50.00% 50.00% +110.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 39,727,479 ops/sec 11,803,344 ops/sec 3.3 20.00% 20.00% +27.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,358 2,407 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 232,003 MB/sec 108,651 MB/sec 2.1 10.00% 10.00% +7.70%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,145 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,168

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 19,030

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 59,488
    Compression
    		 768,184
    Encryption
    		 45,009
    Extended Instructions
    		 58,268
    Floating Point Maths
    		 146,947
    Integer Maths
    		 203,439
    Physics
    		 6,771
    Prime Numbers
    		 378
    Single Threaded
    		 3,145
    String Sorting
    		 104,609

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,358
    Database Operations
    		 23,521
    Memory Latency
    		 72
    Memory Read Cached
    		 26,183
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10,519
    Memory Write
    		 9,271

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 235.12 144.5 0.61×
    bitops
    		 149,553 3,606,737 24.12×
    branch
    		 137,808 4,345,586 31.53×
    funccall
    		 739.42 19,397 26.23×
    funcret
    		 12,390 388,232 31.33×
    hash
    		 174,949 5,173,625 29.57×
    intmath
    		 65,838 1,492,686 22.67×
    nop
    		 262,327 4,184,832 15.95×
    prime
    		 472,778 11,030,423 23.33×
    rotate
    		 97,522 2,078,404 21.31×
    str
    		 927,025 25,420,012 27.42×
    wcs
    		 683,354 16,020,236 23.44×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 3,402 64,710 19.02×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 851.11 21,471 25.23×
    zlib
    		 64.75 1,905 29.43×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 31,220 253,407 8.12×
    clone
    		 1,289 23,786 18.45×
    context
    		 5,434 174,331 32.08×
    cpu-sched
    		 60.43 3,047 50.42×
    eventfd
    		 36,185 1,194,768 33.02×
    fault
    		 21,146 203,193 9.61×
    fork
    		 4,761 59,907 12.58×
    getrandom
    		 57,830 1,740,949 30.10×
    hrtimers
    		 251,528 3,648,438 14.51×
    mprotect
    		 878,928 12,453,635 14.17×
    mtx
    		 19,044,574 1,098,655,933 57.69×
    munmap
    		 3,604 54,446 15.11×
    null
    		 833,815 26,729,761 32.06×
    pipe
    		 600,139 33,626,372 56.03×
    priv-instr
    		 814,530 12,955,180 15.91×
    resched
    		 13,270,364 4,072,141 0.31×
    switch
    		 71,155 11,319,758 159.09×
    timermix
    		 240,420 8,115,620 33.76×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 6,036 64,666 10.71×
    tsc
    		 882,476 27,140,881 30.76×
    usersyscall
    		 693,000 12,676,085 18.29×
    vdso
    		 107,001,363 3,044,116,379 28.45×
    vfork
    		 21,774 220,903 10.15×
    x86syscall
    		 10,107,999 344,710,096 34.10×
    yield
    		 35,247,998 47,577,658 1.35×
    zero
    		 5,676,635 183,009,619 32.24×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 16,424 416,878 25.38×
    expmath
    		 3,587 102,925 28.69×
    fma
    		 1,352,596 38,612,117 28.55×
    fp
    		 306.16 9,595 31.34×
    fractal
    		 7 201.25 28.75×
    hyperbolic
    		 3,974 117,752 29.63×
    logmath
    		 5,162 164,596 31.89×
    matrix
    		 6,173 136,544 22.12×
    matrix-3d
    		 608.39 4,909 8.07×
    monte-carlo
    		 301.47 9,673 32.09×
    mpfr
    		 1,776 38,874 21.88×
    powmath
    		 1,935 57,931 29.94×
    trig
    		 2,565 68,075 26.54×
    veccmp
    		 25,235 544,062 21.56×
    vecfp
    		 2,255 49,013 21.74×
    vecmath
    		 3,865 108,482 28.07×
    vecshuf
    		 3,779 140,770 37.25×
    vecwide
    		 78,368 1,881,824 24.01×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 9 208.99 23.22×
    bsearch
    		 283.77 7,446 26.24×
    bubblesort
    		 1 20 20.00×
    fibsearch
    		 313.48 7,500 23.92×
    heapsort
    		 9.8 274.59 28.02×
    hsearch
    		 8,283 210,565 25.42×
    insertionsort
    		 12.6 221 17.54×
    malloc
    		 2,344,807 54,916,404 23.42×
    mcontend
    		 79.47 6,094 76.68×
    mergesort
    		 31.2 884.78 28.36×
    qsort
    		 21.2 589.39 27.80×
    skiplist
    		 5,275 168,504 31.94×
    tree
    		 1.6 28.79 17.99×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 256,392 1,300,552 5.07×
    cachehammer
    		 123,881 3,810,011 30.76×
    cacheline
    		 44.37 3,130 70.55×
    l1cache
    		 1,108 8,299 7.49×
    memcpy
    		 454.41 8,719 19.19×
    memthrash
    		 225.72 1,005 4.45×
    ptr-chase
    		 31,440,235 258,347,961 8.22×
    spinmem
    		 278.39 1,601 5.75×
    stream
    		 10.08 6,410 635.95×
    vm
    		 128,110 296,705 2.32×

    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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