NMads MA35D series

Статья
2025-04-12

The NMads MA35D-Series virtual machines are Azure's first SKU to offer specialized hardware (Xilinx MA35D "Supernova") accelerated VM optimized for batch and real-time video transcoding workloads. The VM series are powered by 4^th generation AMD EPYC™ Genoa processors. It offers 1 ASIC video processing unit (VPU) with 8GB of memory in addition to 16 vCPUs, 32GB of RAM, 76GB of temporary storage, and 4Gbps of network bandwidth.

Compared with existing general-purpose CPU or GPU based solutions, the NMads MA35D-Series VM SKU provides higher throughout and lower latency while maintaining a lower TCO for customers. The VM series presents a huge opportunity to save on infrastructure costs and improve performance and efficiency on video transcoding. Additionally, the VM provides access to modern codecs such as AV1 to further improve efficiency for video processing. It is the ideal choice for running your video transcoding workloads on the cloud.

Host specifications

Part	Quantity ^{Count Units}	Specs ^{SKU ID, Performance Units, etc.}
Processor	192 vCPUs	AMD EPYC (Genoa) [x86-64]
Memory	768 GiB
Local Storage	3 Disk	2TB E1.S NVMe per disk
Remote Storage	8-16 Disks
Network	5 NICs
Accelerators	10 MA35D cards/20 VPUs	AMD Xilinx Alveo MA35D

Feature support

Premium Storage: Supported
Premium Storage caching: Supported
Live Migration: Not Supported
Memory Preserving Updates: Not Supported
VM Generation 2 Support: Supported
Accelerated Networking: Supported
Ephemeral OS Disk: Supported
Nested Virtualization: Not Supported

Sizes in series

vCPUs (Qty.) and Memory for each size

Size Name	vCPUs (Qty.)	Memory (GB)
Standard_NM16ads_MA35D	16	32

VM Basics resources

Check vCPU quotas

Local (temp) storage info for each size

Size Name	OS Disk Size (GB)	Temp Disk Size (GB)
Standard_NM16ads_MA35D	128	76

*Full Windows guest OS image is not supported on ephemeral OS disk.

Storage resources

Network interface info for each size

Size Name	Max NICs (Qty.)	Max Bandwidth (Mbps)
Standard_NM16ads_MA35D	1	4000

Networking resources

Accelerator (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.) info for each size

Size Name	Accelerators (Qty.)	Accelerator-Memory (GB)
Standard_NM16ads_MA35D	1	8

Table definitions

Expected network bandwidth is the maximum aggregated bandwidth allocated per VM type across all NICs, for all destinations. For more information, see Virtual machine network bandwidth

Upper limits aren't guaranteed. Limits offer guidance for selecting the right VM type for the intended application. Actual network performance depends on several factors including network congestion, application loads, and network settings. For information on optimizing network throughput, see Optimize network throughput for Azure virtual machines.

To achieve the expected network performance on Linux or Windows, you may need to select a specific version or optimize your VM. For more information, see Bandwidth/Throughput testing (NTTTCP).