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'FX' family general purpose VM size series

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Applies to: ✔️ Linux VMs ✔️ Windows VMs ✔️ Flexible scale sets ✔️ Uniform scale sets

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 use 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.

Workloads and use cases

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.

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.

Data Analytics: FX-series VMs are suitable for intensive data analytics applications, especially those that require quick iteration and processing of large data sets.

Series in family

FX-series

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, Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology, and Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512).

View the full FX-series page.

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

Previous-generation FX family series

For older sizes, see previous generation sizes.

Other size information

List of all available sizes: Sizes

Pricing Calculator: Pricing Calculator

Information on Disk Types: Disk Types

Next steps

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