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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
91333
(All-cores)
2057
(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
2026-07-19T20:54:25.068660

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
1.5468 USD/h 8.37 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
South India (IN) / southindia
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
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 8.37 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 8.37 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
1.7482 USD/h 9.4598 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
1.8092 USD/h 9.79 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
1.8097 USD/h 9.7929 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
1.8537 USD/h 10.0307 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
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
1.866 USD/h 10.0971 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
1.8665 USD/h 10.1 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
1.9335 USD/h 10.4625 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
2.0108 USD/h 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
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
2.2119 USD/h 11.9691 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
2.2428 USD/h 12.1365 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
2.3975 USD/h 12.9735 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
92.5

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

    Server Description

    A dedicated 96-vCPU platform featuring 768 GB of RAM and top-tier memory bandwidth for memory-intensive database and multi-threaded workloads.

    Memory OptimizedCompute Optimized

    Microsoft Azure M96bs_v3 is a memory-optimized server from the MBSMediumMemoryv3 family, powered by an Intel Xeon 8473C processor. It features 96 dedicated vCPUs across 48 physical cores, operating at 4.0 GHz, and is paired with 768.0 GB of system memory. The instance lacks local storage but supports premium block storage. In benchmark testing, the server exhibits top-tier memory bandwidth and multi-core processing capabilities, with PassMark CPU and database operations scoring in the top 10% tier. Single-core performance is moderate by comparison, ranking in the middle 50% in stress-ng. The high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 8:1 and strong multi-threaded execution make this server suitable for memory-intensive database operations, high-throughput static web serving, and multi-threaded data processing workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    5.14Score
    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 1,895,870 ops/sec 8.61 50.00% 50.00% +193.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 78,657,639 ops/sec 11,503,938 ops/sec 6.84 20.00% 20.00% +46.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,431 2,410 1.01 10.00% 10.00% +0.10%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 462,627 MB/sec 107,331 MB/sec 4.31 10.00% 10.00% +15.70%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,167 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.34 10.00% 10.00% +2.97%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,209

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 20,564

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		97408
    Compression
    		1602973
    Encryption
    		96067
    Extended Instructions
    		121967
    Floating Point Maths
    		310185
    Integer Maths
    		436560
    Physics
    		13371
    Prime Numbers
    		776
    Single Threaded
    		3167
    String Sorting
    		216209

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		2431
    Database Operations
    		34584
    Memory Latency
    		69
    Memory Read Cached
    		27487
    Memory Read Uncached
    		10480
    Memory Write
    		9053

    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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    M128bs_v3 1281024 GiB0

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