NC6s_v3 by Microsoft Azure
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Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | azure |
Server ID | Standard_NC6s_v3 |
Name | NC6s_v3 |
API Reference | Standard_NC6s_v3 |
Description | NCSv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 6 vCPUs |
Family | NCSv3 |
Hw Virt | - |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-08-05T00:23:15.563015 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
East US (US) / eastus | 0.5655 USD/h | 3.06 USD/h |
East US 2 (US) / eastus2 | 0.5655 USD/h | 3.06 USD/h |
West US 2 (US) / westus2 | 0.5655 USD/h | 3.06 USD/h |
West US 3 (US) / westus3 | 0.5655 USD/h | 3.06 USD/h |
North Europe (IE) / northeurope | 0.6108 USD/h | 3.305 USD/h |
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral | 0.622 USD/h | 3.366 USD/h |
South Central US (US) / southcentralus | 0.622 USD/h | 3.366 USD/h |
Central US (US) / centralus | 0.639 USD/h | 3.458 USD/h |
France Central (FR) / francecentral | 0.6616 USD/h | 3.58 USD/h |
UK South (GB) / uksouth | 0.6632 USD/h | 3.589 USD/h |
West Europe (NL) / westeurope | 0.7065 USD/h | 3.823 USD/h |
West US (US) / westus | 0.7351 USD/h | 3.978 USD/h |
Japan East (JP) / japaneast | 0.7751 USD/h | 4.194 USD/h |
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral | 0.7771 USD/h | 4.205 USD/h |
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral | 0.7771 USD/h | 4.205 USD/h |
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth | 0.7771 USD/h | 4.205 USD/h |
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast | 0.7824 USD/h | 4.234 USD/h |
Central India (IN) / centralindia | 0.7824 USD/h | 4.234 USD/h |
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral | 0.7824 USD/h | 4.234 USD/h |
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia | 0.7824 USD/h | 4.234 USD/h |
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest | - | 4.234 USD/h |
East Asia (HK) / eastasia | 0.8765 USD/h | 4.743 USD/h |
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth | 1.131 USD/h | 6.12 USD/h |
Processor
vCPUs | 6 |
Hypervisor | Microsoft Hyper-V |
CPU Allocation | Dedicated |
CPU Architecture | x86_64 |
System Resources and Accelerators
| MEMORY | |
|---|---|
Memory Amount | 112 GiB |
| GPU | |
|---|---|
GPU Count | 1 |
GPU Memory Min | 0 MiB |
GPU Memory Total | 0 MiB |
GPUs |
| STORAGE | |
|---|---|
Storage Size | 754 GB |
Storages |
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| NETWORK | |
|---|---|
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
Server Description
A GPU-accelerated virtual machine featuring high memory density, dedicated compute cores, and local storage for parallel processing workloads.
Microsoft Azure NC6s_v3 is a GPU-accelerated virtual machine from the NCSv3 family, running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It features 6 dedicated x86_64 Intel vCPUs paired with 112.0 GB of system memory, yielding a high ratio of 18.67 GB of RAM per core. The server is equipped with a single GPU and 754 GB of local storage, and it supports Premium Storage. Tradeoffs include the absence of exposed advanced CPU instruction sets like AVX, AMX, and hardware cryptography flags, as well as zero complimentary public IPv4 addresses. This configuration is tailored for memory-intensive GPU workloads, such as deep learning, scientific computing, and data visualization, where a substantial memory footprint is required alongside dedicated graphics acceleration.
Economics
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| INSTANCE | vCPUs | MEMORY | GPUs |
|---|---|---|---|
| NC12s_v3 | 12 | 224 GiB | 2 |
| NC24rs_v3 | 24 | 448 GiB | 4 |
| NC24s_v3 | 24 | 448 GiB | 4 |
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