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M96bds_v3 by Microsoft Azure

M96bds_v3 is a MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 96 vCPUs, 768 GiB of memory and 410 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.6243 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
768 GiB Memory
410 GB Storage
Spare SCore
90931
(All-cores)
2058
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M96bds_v3
Name
M96bds_v3
API Reference
Standard_M96bds_v3
Description
MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs
Family
MBDSMediumMemoryv3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-29T00:21:24.766440

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
1.6243 USD/h 8.7898 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
1.6243 USD/h 8.7898 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
1.6244 USD/h 8.79 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
1.6244 USD/h 8.79 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
1.6244 USD/h 8.79 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
1.6244 USD/h 8.79 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
1.6244 USD/h 8.79 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 8.79 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 8.79 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
1.8356 USD/h 9.9328 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
1.8997 USD/h 10.28 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
1.9005 USD/h 10.2843 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
1.9467 USD/h 10.534 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
1.9478 USD/h 10.54 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
1.9478 USD/h 10.54 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
1.9589 USD/h 10.6 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
1.9596 USD/h 10.6038 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
2.0305 USD/h 10.9875 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
2.044 USD/h 11.0608 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
2.1104 USD/h 11.42 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
2.1117 USD/h 11.4267 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
2.1929 USD/h 11.8665 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
2.2741 USD/h 12.306 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
2.3229 USD/h 12.5697 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
2.3229 USD/h 12.5697 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
2.3554 USD/h 12.7455 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
2.5178 USD/h 13.6245 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
2.5178 USD/h 13.6245 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
3.2488 USD/h 17.58 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
96
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
48
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
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
96 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
44.2
Scalability
92.08

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
768 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
768 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

    Server Description

    A high-density, memory-optimized virtual machine delivering top-tier database throughput and multi-core compute performance for enterprise workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseCompute Optimized

    Microsoft Azure M96bds_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family, powered by a dedicated 96-vCPU Intel Xeon 8473C processor running at 4.0 GHz on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. Featuring 768.0 GB of RAM (8.0 GB per core) and a 410 GB local disk, this server is designed for memory-intensive and high-throughput workloads. It delivers top-tier performance in multi-core benchmarks, memory bandwidth (up to 7441.98 GB/sec cached read), and database operations, including Redis SET throughput of 118.21 million operations per second. While it lacks a dedicated GPU, its advanced Intel AMX and AVX-512 instruction sets support strong CPU-based AI inference and cryptographic operations. This configuration is highly suited for enterprise databases, in-memory caching, large-scale software compilation, and high-throughput web serving.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    5.17Score
    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) 16,491,513 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 8.7 50.00% 50.00% +195.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 78,756,331 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 6.82 20.00% 20.00% +46.80%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,468 2,411 1.02 10.00% 10.00% +0.20%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 463,523 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 4.32 10.00% 10.00% +15.80%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,161 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.34 10.00% 10.00% +2.97%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,190

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 20,551

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 97411
    Compression
    		 1601811
    Encryption
    		 95396
    Extended Instructions
    		 123302
    Floating Point Maths
    		 311071
    Integer Maths
    		 436751
    Physics
    		 13469
    Prime Numbers
    		 770
    Single Threaded
    		 3161
    String Sorting
    		 217313

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2468
    Database Operations
    		 34663
    Memory Latency
    		 69
    Memory Read Cached
    		 28414
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10778
    Memory Write
    		 9375

    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
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    M64bds_1_v3 641397 GiB0

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