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[Sizes] Compute-optimized size family pages
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‎articles/virtual-machines/sizes/compute-optimized/f-family.md

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title: F family VM size series
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description: Overview of the 'F' family and sub families of virtual machine sizes
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author: mattmcinnes
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ms.service: virtual-machines
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ms.subservice: sizes
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ms.topic: conceptual
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ms.date: 04/18/2024
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ms.author: mattmcinnes
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# 'F' family compute optimized VM size series
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**Applies to:** :heavy_check_mark: Linux VMs :heavy_check_mark: Windows VMs :heavy_check_mark: Flexible scale sets :heavy_check_mark: Uniform scale sets
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The 'F' family of VM size series are one of Azure's compute-optimized VM instances. They're designed for workloads that require high CPU performance, such as batch processing, web servers, analytics, and gaming. Featuring a high CPU-to-memory ratio, F-series VMs are equipped with powerful processors to handle applications that demand more CPU capacity relative to memory. This makes them particularly effective for scenarios where fast and efficient processing is critical, allowing businesses to run their compute-bound applications efficiently and cost-effectively.
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## Workloads and use cases
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**Web Servers:** F-series VMs are excellent for hosting web servers and applications that require significant compute capability to handle web traffic efficiently without necessarily needing large amounts of memory.
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**Batch Processing:** F-series VMs are ideal for batch jobs and other processing tasks that involve handling large volumes of data or tasks in a queue but are more CPU-intensive than memory-intensive.
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**Application Servers:** Applications that require quick processing and do not have high memory demands can benefit from F-series VMs. These can include medium traffic application servers, back-end servers for enterprise applications, and other similar tasks.
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Gaming Servers: Due to their high CPU performance, F-series VMs are also suitable for gaming servers where fast processing is critical for a good gaming experience.
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**Analytics:** F-series VMs can be used for data analytics applications that require processing speed to crunch numbers and perform calculations more than they require a large amount of memory.
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## Series in family
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### Fsv2-series
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[!INCLUDE [fsv2-series-summary](./includes/fsv2-series-summary.md)]
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[View the full Fsv2-series page](../../fsv2-series.md).
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[!INCLUDE [fsv2-series-specs](./includes/fsv2-series-specs.md)]
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### Fasv6 and Falsv6-series
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[!INCLUDE [fasv6-falsv6-series-summary](./includes/fasv6-falsv6-series-summary.md)]
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[View the full Fasv6 and Falsv6-series page](../../fasv6-falsv6-series.md).
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[!INCLUDE [fasv6-falsv6-series-specs](./includes/fasv6-falsv6-series-specs.md)]

‎articles/virtual-machines/sizes/compute-optimized/fx-family.md

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title: FX sub-family VM size series
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description: Overview of the 'FX' sub-family of virtual machine sizes
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author: mattmcinnes
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ms.service: virtual-machines
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ms.subservice: sizes
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ms.topic: conceptual
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ms.date: 04/18/2024
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# 'FX' family general purpose VM size series
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**Applies to:** :heavy_check_mark: Linux VMs :heavy_check_mark: Windows VMs :heavy_check_mark: Flexible scale sets :heavy_check_mark: Uniform scale sets
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The 'FX' family of VM size series are one of Azure's specialized compute-optimized VM instances, designed primarily workloads that require significant CPU capabilities. These VMs leverage the latest Intel Ice Lake processors and are optimized for compute-intensive tasks such as financial modeling, scientific simulations, and heavy calculations. With a high frequency and a large cache per core, FX-series VMs provide exceptional computational power, making them ideal for scenarios demanding extensive processing resources and rapid execution of complex operations.
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## Workloads and use cases
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**Electronic Design Automation (EDA)**: FX-series VMs are well-suited for EDA workloads, which require high CPU clock speeds and high memory-to-CPU ratios. These workloads benefit from the high single-core performance and large memory capacity of FX-series VMs.
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**Batch Processing:** FX-series VMs are excellent for high-throughput batch processing jobs, such as those involving large-scale data analysis and transformation, where rapid processing is critical.
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**Data Analytics:** FX-series VMs are suitable for intensive data analytics applications, especially those that require quick iteration and processing of large data sets.
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## Series in family
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### FX-series
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[!INCLUDE [fx-series-summary](./includes/fx-series-summary.md)]
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[View the full FX-series page](../../fx-series.md).
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[!INCLUDE [fx-series-specs](./includes/fx-series-specs.md)]

‎articles/virtual-machines/sizes/compute-optimized/includes/fasv6-falsv6-series-specs.md

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title: Falsv6, Fasv6, and Famsv6-series specs include
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description: Include file containing specifications of Falsv6, Fasv6, and Famsv6-series VM sizes.
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services: virtual-machines
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author: mattmcinnes
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ms.topic: include
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| Part | Quantity <br><sup>Count <sup>Units | Specs <br><sup>SKU ID, Performance <sup>Units</sup>, etc. |
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| Processor | 2 - 64<sup>vCores | AMD EPYC<sup>TM</sup> 9004 (Genoa) |
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| Memory | 4 - 512<sup>GiB | |
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| Data Disks | 4 - 32<sup>Disks | 4000 - 230400<sup>IOPS</sup> / 90 - 3400<sup>MBps |
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| Network | 2 - 8<sup>NICs | 12500 - 36000<sup>Mbps |
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| Accelerators | None | |

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title: Falsv6, Fasv6, and Famsv6-series summary include
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description: Include file containing a summary of the Falsv6, Fasv6, and Famsv6-series size family.
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The Falsv6, Fasv6, and Famsv6-series utilize AMD's 4th Generation EPYC<sup>TM</sup> 9004 processor that can achieve a boosted maximum frequency of 3.7GHz with up to 320 MB L3 cache.  The Falsv6, Fasv6, and Famsv6 VM series come without Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT), meaning a vCPU is now mapped to a full physical core, allowing software processes to run on dedicated and uncontested resources. These new full core VMs will suit workloads demanding the highest CPU performance. Falsv6, Fasv6, and Famsv6-series offer up to 64 full core vCPUs and 512 GiB of RAM in three memory to core ratios, and are optimized for scientific simulations, financial and risk analysis, gaming, rendering and other workloads able to take advantage of the exceptional performance. Customers running software licensed on per-vCPU basis can leverage these VMs to optimize compute costs within their infrastructure. 

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| Part | Quantity <br><sup>Count <sup>Units | Specs <br><sup>SKU ID, Performance <sup>Units</sup>, etc. |
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| Processor | 2 - 72<sup>vCores | Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake)<br> Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL (Cascade Lake)<br> Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8168 (Skylake) |
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| Memory | 4 - 144<sup>GiB | |
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| Data Disks | 4 - 32<sup>Disks | 3200 - 144000<sup>IOPS</sup> / 31 - 2000<sup>MBps |
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| Network | 2 - 8<sup>NICs | 5000 - 30000<sup>Mbps |
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| Accelerators | None | |

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The Fsv2-series run on the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake), the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL (Cascade Lake) processors, or the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8168 (Skylake) processors. It features a sustained all core Turbo clock speed of 3.4 GHz and a maximum single-core turbo frequency of 3.7 GHz. Intel® AVX-512 instructions are new on Intel Scalable Processors. These instructions provide up to a 2X performance boost to vector processing workloads on both single and double precision floating point operations. In other words, they're really fast for any computational workload.

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| Part | Quantity <br><sup>Count <sup>Units | Specs <br><sup>SKU ID, Performance <sup>Units</sup>, etc. |
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| Processor | 4 - 48<sup>vCores | Intel® Xeon® Gold 6246R (Cascade Lake) |
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| Memory | 84 - 1008<sup>GiB | |
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| Data Disks | 8 - 32<sup>Disks | 6700 - 400000<sup>IOPS</sup> / 104 - 3871<sup>MBps |
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| Network | 2 - 8<sup>NICs | 4000 - 3200<sup>Mbps |
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| Accelerators | None | |

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The FX-series runs on the Intel® Xeon® Gold 6246R (Cascade Lake) processors. It features an all-core-turbo frequency of 4.0 GHz, 21 GB RAM per vCPU, up to 1 TB total RAM, and local temporary storage. The FX-series will benefit workloads that require a high CPU clock speed and high memory to CPU ratio, workloads with high per-core licensing costs, and applications requiring a high single-core performance. A typical use case for FX-series is the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workload. FX-series VMs feature [Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/turbo-boost/turbo-boost-technology.html), [Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/hyper-threading/hyper-threading-technology.html), and [Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512)](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/avx-512-overview.html).

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