M64-16ms by Microsoft Azure
M64-16ms is a MS family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 64 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 1792 GiB of memory and 2.1 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.4989 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
1792 GiB Memory
2.1 TB Storage
Spare SCore
10937
(All-cores)
(All-cores)
1038
(Single-core)
(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | azure |
Server ID | Standard_M64-16ms |
Name | M64-16ms |
API Reference | Standard_M64-16ms |
Description | MS family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 64 vCPUs |
Family | MS |
Hw Virt | |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-06-25T00:09:05.440170 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
East US (US) / eastus | 1.9103 USD/h | 10.337 USD/h |
East US 2 (US) / eastus2 | 1.9103 USD/h | 10.337 USD/h |
North Central US (US) / northcentralus | 1.9103 USD/h | 10.337 USD/h |
West US 2 (US) / westus2 | 1.9103 USD/h | 10.337 USD/h |
West US 3 (US) / westus3 | 1.9103 USD/h | 10.337 USD/h |
Central India (IN) / centralindia | 1.9711 USD/h | 10.666 USD/h |
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral | - | 10.666 USD/h |
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest | - | 10.666 USD/h |
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral | 2.1013 USD/h | 11.3707 USD/h |
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast | 2.1013 USD/h | 11.3707 USD/h |
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral | 2.1517 USD/h | 11.6436 USD/h |
North Europe (IE) / northeurope | 2.2924 USD/h | 12.405 USD/h |
South Central US (US) / southcentralus | 2.2924 USD/h | 12.405 USD/h |
UK South (GB) / uksouth | 2.4068 USD/h | 13.024 USD/h |
UK West (GB) / ukwest | 2.4068 USD/h | 13.024 USD/h |
France Central (FR) / francecentral | 2.407 USD/h | 13.025 USD/h |
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral | 2.4929 USD/h | 13.4898 USD/h |
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest | 2.4929 USD/h | 13.4898 USD/h |
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral | 2.5216 USD/h | 13.645 USD/h |
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth | 2.5216 USD/h | 13.645 USD/h |
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral | 2.5225 USD/h | 13.65 USD/h |
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth | 2.5598 USD/h | 13.852 USD/h |
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral | 2.6744 USD/h | 14.4718 USD/h |
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast | 2.6744 USD/h | 14.472 USD/h |
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral | 2.6744 USD/h | 14.472 USD/h |
Italy North (IT) / italynorth | 2.6744 USD/h | 14.472 USD/h |
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral | 2.6744 USD/h | 14.472 USD/h |
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral | 2.6744 USD/h | 14.472 USD/h |
West Europe (NL) / westeurope | 2.6744 USD/h | 14.472 USD/h |
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2 | 1.4989 USD/h | 14.989 USD/h |
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral | 2.77 USD/h | 14.989 USD/h |
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast | 2.77 USD/h | 14.989 USD/h |
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast | 2.77 USD/h | 14.989 USD/h |
Japan East (JP) / japaneast | 2.77 USD/h | 14.989 USD/h |
Japan West (JP) / japanwest | 2.77 USD/h | 14.989 USD/h |
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral | 2.77 USD/h | 14.989 USD/h |
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth | 2.77 USD/h | 14.989 USD/h |
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia | 2.77 USD/h | 14.989 USD/h |
Central US (US) / centralus | 2.7866 USD/h | 15.079 USD/h |
South India (IN) / southindia | 2.8947 USD/h | 15.664 USD/h |
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth | 2.9085 USD/h | 15.7385 USD/h |
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth | 2.9419 USD/h | 15.9192 USD/h |
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral | 2.98 USD/h | 16.1256 USD/h |
West US (US) / westus | 3.2057 USD/h | 17.347 USD/h |
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest | 3.2094 USD/h | 17.367 USD/h |
East Asia (HK) / eastasia | 3.4627 USD/h | 18.7375 USD/h |
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth | 3.4766 USD/h | 18.813 USD/h |
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast | 3.5264 USD/h | 19.082 USD/h |
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth | 3.7252 USD/h | 20.158 USD/h |
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest | 3.8245 USD/h | 20.6951 USD/h |
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast | 4.2983 USD/h | 23.2591 USD/h |
Processor
vCPUs | 16 |
Hypervisor | Microsoft Hyper-V |
CPU Allocation | Dedicated |
CPU Cores | 8 |
CPU Speed | 2.7 GHz |
CPU Architecture | x86_64 |
CPU Manufacturer | Intel |
CPU Family | Xeon |
CPU Model | 8280M |
CPU L1D Cache | 32 KiB |
CPU L1D Cache Total | 256 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache | 32 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache Total | 256 KiB |
CPU L2 Cache | 1 MiB |
CPU L2 Cache Total | 8 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache | 39 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache Total | 77 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, cpuid, pni, pclmulqdq, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xsaves, vnmi, md_clear |
Ecpus | 10.5 |
Scalability | 131.25 |
System Resources and Accelerators
| MEMORY | |
|---|---|
Memory Amount | 2 TB |
Memory Amount Actual | 2 TB |
| GPU | |
|---|---|
GPU Count | 0 |
GPU Memory Min | 0 MiB |
GPU Memory Total | 0 MiB |
GPUs |
| STORAGE | |
|---|---|
Storage Size | 2097 GB |
Storages |
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| NETWORK | |
|---|---|
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
Server Description
An ultra-high-memory virtual machine featuring exceptional RAM density and local storage for memory-bound enterprise applications and large-scale database workloads.
Memory OptimizedStorage & Database
Microsoft Azure M64-16ms is an x86_64 memory-optimized virtual machine powered by an Intel Xeon 8280M processor with 8 physical cores, 16 vCPUs, and a 2.7 GHz clock speed. Running on Microsoft Hyper-V, it features an exceptional 1792.0 GB of RAM alongside 2097 GB of local storage. Benchmarks reveal a distinct performance tradeoff: while multi-core capabilities and memory bandwidth are average, single-core performance is weak, as evidenced by a Geekbench single-core score of 887.0 and poor single-threaded compression results. This configuration offers high qualitative cost efficiency for memory-bound applications rather than compute-heavy tasks. It is highly suited for large in-memory databases, caching layers like Redis, and memory-intensive enterprise workloads, but is less effective for single-threaded processing or LLM inference.
Economics
Performance
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Score: 887
Geekbench Multi-Core
Score: 5,481
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 12033 |
Compression | 159831 |
Encryption | 5038 |
Extended Instructions | 11627 |
Floating Point Maths | 19631 |
Integer Maths | 36618 |
Physics | 1542 |
Prime Numbers | 87 |
Single Threaded | 1487 |
String Sorting | 19294 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 1780 |
Database Operations | 4102 |
Memory Latency | 73 |
Memory Read Cached | 18209 |
Memory Read Uncached | 6199 |
Memory Write | 6242 |
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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