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 0.8938 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
2026-09-23T03:25:16.249070Z

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.8938 USD/h 4.39 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.8938 USD/h 4.39 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.8938 USD/h 4.39 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.8938 USD/h 4.39 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.8938 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
0.8948 USD/h 4.3949 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.8948 USD/h 4.3949 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
1.0112 USD/h 4.9664 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
1.0458 USD/h 5.1363 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
1.0465 USD/h 5.14 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
1.0711 USD/h 5.261 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
1.1611 USD/h 5.268 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
1.073 USD/h 5.27 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
1.073 USD/h 5.27 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
1.0782 USD/h 5.2959 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
1.0791 USD/h 5.3 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
1.1173 USD/h 5.4875 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
1.1247 USD/h 5.5241 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
1.1626 USD/h 5.71 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
1.1632 USD/h 5.7133 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
1.2066 USD/h 5.9265 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
1.2528 USD/h 6.153 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
1.2781 USD/h 6.2777 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
1.2781 USD/h 6.2777 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
1.296 USD/h 6.3655 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
1.3854 USD/h 6.8045 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
1.3854 USD/h 6.8045 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.7876 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
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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An x86_64 memory-optimized platform featuring high-frequency Intel Xeon processors, dense RAM configurations, and integrated local storage for demanding database workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure M48bds_v3 is an x86_64 memory-optimized virtual machine from the MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family, powered by a 48-vCPU Intel Xeon 8473C processor running at 4.0 GHz. It features 384.0 GB of RAM, providing a high 8.0 GB per vCPU ratio, alongside a 410 GB local disk. Benchmark results show strong performance, with memory bandwidth reaching 3658.62 GB/sec for small blocks and a PassMark CPU score of 59487.53. The processor supports Intel AMX and AVX-512 instructions, which assist in vector and matrix calculations. While it lacks a dedicated GPU, its high memory-to-core ratio and strong database benchmark performance of 23520.72 operations make it highly suitable for memory-intensive databases, software compilation, and medium-scale analytical workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    2.94Score
    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 1,919,696 ops/sec 4.32 50.00% 50.00% +108.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 39,727,479 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 3.39 20.00% 20.00% +27.70%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,358 2,418 0.975 10.00% 10.00% -0.25%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 232,003 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 2.14 10.00% 10.00% +7.90%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,145 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.33 10.00% 10.00% +2.89%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,168

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 19,030

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 59488
    Compression
    		 768184
    Encryption
    		 45009
    Extended Instructions
    		 58268
    Floating Point Maths
    		 146947
    Integer Maths
    		 203439
    Physics
    		 6771
    Prime Numbers
    		 378
    Single Threaded
    		 3145
    String Sorting
    		 104609

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2358
    Database Operations
    		 23521
    Memory Latency
    		 72
    Memory Read Cached
    		 26183
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10519
    Memory Write
    		 9271

    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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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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    M64bds_v3 64512 GiB0
    M128-64bds_v3 641024 GiB0
    M64bds_1_v3 641397 GiB0
    M128-64bds_3_v3 642794 GiB0

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