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 1.7896 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
768 GiB Memory
410 GB Storage
Spare SCore
90,931
(All-cores)
2,058
(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
2026-09-12T03:23:44.058042

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
1.7896 USD/h 8.7898 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
1.7896 USD/h 8.7898 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
1.7896 USD/h 8.79 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
1.7896 USD/h 8.79 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
1.7896 USD/h 8.79 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
1.7896 USD/h 8.79 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
1.7896 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
2.0223 USD/h 9.9328 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
2.093 USD/h 10.28 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
2.0939 USD/h 10.2843 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
2.1447 USD/h 10.534 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
2.1459 USD/h 10.54 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
2.1459 USD/h 10.54 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
2.3248 USD/h 10.548 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
2.1582 USD/h 10.6 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
2.1589 USD/h 10.6038 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
2.2371 USD/h 10.9875 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
2.252 USD/h 11.0608 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
2.3251 USD/h 11.42 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
2.3265 USD/h 11.4267 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
2.416 USD/h 11.8665 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
2.5055 USD/h 12.306 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
2.5592 USD/h 12.5697 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
2.5592 USD/h 12.5697 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
2.595 USD/h 12.7455 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
2.7739 USD/h 13.6245 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
2.7739 USD/h 13.6245 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
3.5793 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-memory, 96-vCPU virtual machine delivering top-tier memory bandwidth and database performance for demanding enterprise workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure M96bds_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family, featuring 96 dedicated vCPUs on an Intel Xeon 8473C processor running at 4.0 GHz. It is configured with 768.0 GB of RAM, 410 GB of local storage, and is premium storage capable. The server delivers top-tier memory bandwidth, reaching 429.08 GB/sec for uncached large-block reads, and excels in multi-threaded operations such as bzip3 decompression and Passmark database tests. Supported by advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and AMX, it provides strong performance for cryptographic, image processing, and LLM inference workloads. This hardware profile makes the M96bds_v3 highly efficient for memory-intensive enterprise tasks, including large-scale database management, in-memory caching, and data analytics.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    5.13Score
    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 1,917,397 ops/sec 8.6 50.00% 50.00% +193.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 78,756,331 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 6.74 20.00% 20.00% +46.50%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,468 2,418 1.02 10.00% 10.00% +0.20%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 463,523 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 4.29 10.00% 10.00% +15.70%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,161 Mops/s 2,365 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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