M64m by Microsoft Azure

M64m is a MS family [Memory Intensive] [Intel processor] 64 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 64 vCPUs, 1792 GiB of memory and 7.7 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.4989 USD per hour.
64 vCPU
1792 GiB Memory
7.7 TB Storage
Spare SCore
43,784
(All-cores)
1,038
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M64m
Name
M64m
API Reference
Standard_M64m
Description
MS family [Memory Intensive] [Intel processor] 64 vCPUs
Family
Memory Optimized
Series
M
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-12T02:13:00.594469

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
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
64
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
32
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
1 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
32 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
42.2
Scalability
65.94

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
2 TB
Memory Amount Actual
2 TB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    7697 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 7697 GB ssd (temp disk)
    Compatible Storage IDs
    PremiumV2_LRS, Premium_LRS, Premium_ZRS, StandardSSD_LRS, StandardSSD_ZRS, Standard_LRS, UltraSSD_LRS
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    An x86_64 memory-intensive server featuring massive RAM capacity and bundled local SSD storage for data-dense, multi-threaded workloads.

    Microsoft Azure M64m is an x86_64 memory-intensive server configured with 64 vCPUs, 32 physical cores, and 1792.0 GB of RAM, running on a dedicated Intel Xeon 8280M processor at 2.7 GHz. Virtualized via Microsoft Hyper-V, the instance includes a bundled 7340 GB local SSD but lacks GPU acceleration. Benchmark results reveal a distinct tradeoff: single-core performance is poor, ranking in the bottom 10% for Geekbench and single-threaded compression, while multi-core metrics, memory bandwidth, and database operations perform in the average middle 50% tier. This hardware profile is optimized for memory-dense workloads, such as database operations and large caching layers, rather than compute-bound or single-threaded applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.7Score
    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) 3,966,454 ops/sec 1,926,573 ops/sec 2.1 50.00% 50.00% +45.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 24,794,528 ops/sec 11,810,473 ops/sec 2.1 20.00% 20.00% +16.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,033 2,407 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 193,408 MB/sec 108,674 MB/sec 1.7 10.00% 10.00% +5.40%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,487 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 906

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,399

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 34,987
    Compression
    		 635,225
    Encryption
    		 20,118
    Extended Instructions
    		 47,111
    Floating Point Maths
    		 78,544
    Integer Maths
    		 146,475
    Physics
    		 3,680
    Prime Numbers
    		 215
    Single Threaded
    		 1,487
    String Sorting
    		 74,821

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,033
    Database Operations
    		 16,673
    Memory Latency
    		 70
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18,315
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 7,803
    Memory Write
    		 7,310

    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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