M96-48bds_2_v3 by Microsoft Azure

M96-48bds_2_v3 is a MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 48 vCPUs, 1946 GiB of memory and 4.61 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 7.0177 USD per hour.
48 vCPU
1946 GiB Memory
4.61 TB Storage
Spare SCore
50,642
(All-cores)
2,058
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M96-48bds_2_v3
Name
M96-48bds_2_v3
API Reference
Standard_M96-48bds_2_v3
Description
MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs
Family
MBDSMediumMemoryv3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
74
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-09T03:37:57.220428

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
7.0177 USD/h 34.4678 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
7.0177 USD/h 34.4678 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
7.0181 USD/h 34.47 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
7.0181 USD/h 34.47 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
7.0181 USD/h 34.47 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
7.0181 USD/h 34.47 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
7.0181 USD/h 34.47 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 34.47 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 34.47 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
7.9302 USD/h 38.9499 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
8.2112 USD/h 40.3299 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
8.2112 USD/h 40.33 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
8.4106 USD/h 41.3093 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
8.4209 USD/h 41.36 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
8.4209 USD/h 41.36 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
9.1166 USD/h 41.364 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
8.4657 USD/h 41.58 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
8.4663 USD/h 41.5829 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
8.7726 USD/h 43.0875 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
8.8311 USD/h 43.3747 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
9.1229 USD/h 44.8082 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
9.1233 USD/h 44.81 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
9.4744 USD/h 46.5345 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
9.825 USD/h 48.2563 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
10.0359 USD/h 49.2921 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
10.0359 USD/h 49.2921 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
10.1762 USD/h 49.9815 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
10.878 USD/h 53.4285 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
10.878 USD/h 53.4285 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
14.0362 USD/h 68.94 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
210 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
24.6
Scalability
102.5

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
    4608 GB
    Storages
    • 4608 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A high-density memory-optimized server featuring massive RAM capacity, bundled local storage, and advanced Intel Xeon processing for enterprise database workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure M96-48bds_2_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family, running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It features a dedicated Intel Xeon 8473C processor with 24 physical cores, 48 vCPUs, and a 4.0 GHz clock speed. The server is equipped with 1946.0 GB of RAM, providing an exceptional 40.54 GB of memory per core, alongside 4608 GB of local storage. Benchmark data highlights strong memory bandwidth, reaching 4147.11 GB/sec for cached reads, and robust database performance with 66.02 million Redis SET operations per second. Supported by Intel AMX and AVX-512 instruction sets, it delivers strong performance in data processing and large-scale memory-bound tasks. This configuration is highly suited for large-scale in-memory databases, enterprise applications, and memory-intensive analytical workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    3.31Score
    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) 9,196,543 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 4.8 50.00% 50.00% +119.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 45,653,803 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 3.91 20.00% 20.00% +31.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,426 2,418 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 326,396 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 3.02 10.00% 10.00% +11.70%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,166 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.34 10.00% 10.00% +2.97%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,205

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 19,086

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 67646
    Compression
    		 889619
    Encryption
    		 53326
    Extended Instructions
    		 69362
    Floating Point Maths
    		 172726
    Integer Maths
    		 242567
    Physics
    		 9673
    Prime Numbers
    		 488
    Single Threaded
    		 3166
    String Sorting
    		 121843

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2426
    Database Operations
    		 26777
    Memory Latency
    		 69
    Memory Read Cached
    		 28400
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10309
    Memory Write
    		 9026

    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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