M96bs_v3 by Microsoft Azure

M96bs_v3 is a MBSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 96 vCPUs, 768 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.5468 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
768 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
91,333
(All-cores)
2,057
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M96bs_v3
Name
M96bs_v3
API Reference
Standard_M96bs_v3
Description
MBSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs
Family
MBSMediumMemoryv3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-02T00:34:40.801702

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
1.5468 USD/h -
Central US (US) / centralus
1.7482 USD/h -
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
1.8537 USD/h -
UK South (GB) / uksouth
1.9335 USD/h -
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
2.2119 USD/h -
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
2.3975 USD/h -
East US (US) / eastus
1.5468 USD/h 8.37 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
1.5468 USD/h 8.37 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
1.5468 USD/h 8.37 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
1.5468 USD/h 8.37 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
1.5468 USD/h 8.37 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
- 8.37 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 8.37 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 8.37 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
- 8.37 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
1.8092 USD/h 9.79 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
- 9.7929 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
1.8554 USD/h 10.04 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
1.8554 USD/h 10.04 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
- 10.044 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
- 10.0971 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
1.8665 USD/h 10.1 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
1.9464 USD/h 10.5322 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
2.0106 USD/h 10.88 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
- 10.881 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
2.0881 USD/h 11.2995 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
2.1655 USD/h 11.718 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
2.2119 USD/h 11.9691 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
2.2428 USD/h 12.1365 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
2.3975 USD/h 12.9735 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
3.0936 USD/h 16.74 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
44.4
Scalability
46.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
768 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
768 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A high-density memory-optimized virtual machine featuring ninety-six dedicated vCPUs and advanced matrix extensions for demanding enterprise database workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Microsoft Azure M96bs_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the MBSMediumMemoryv3 family, powered by a 96-vCPU Intel Xeon 8473C processor running at 4.0 GHz. Featuring 768.0 GB of RAM, this server delivers a high memory-to-core ratio of 8.0 GB per vCPU. While it lacks local storage and GPUs, it is premium storage capable and optimized for high-performance block storage. Benchmarks highlight top-tier memory bandwidth, exceptional multi-core CPU performance, and outstanding database operation speeds. The processor supports advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and Intel AMX, which accelerate cryptography and vector calculations. This configuration is highly suited for memory-intensive enterprise applications, large-scale databases, and heavy multi-threaded workloads.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      5Score
      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) 16,327,410 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 8.4 50.00% 50.00% +190.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 78,657,639 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 6.6 20.00% 20.00% +46.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,431 2,416 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 462,627 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 4.2 10.00% 10.00% +15.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,167 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,209

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 20,564

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 97,408
      Compression
      		 1,602,973
      Encryption
      		 96,067
      Extended Instructions
      		 121,967
      Floating Point Maths
      		 310,185
      Integer Maths
      		 436,560
      Physics
      		 13,371
      Prime Numbers
      		 776
      Single Threaded
      		 3,167
      String Sorting
      		 216,209

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,431
      Database Operations
      		 34,584
      Memory Latency
      		 69
      Memory Read Cached
      		 27,487
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,480
      Memory Write
      		 9,053

      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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