NC sizes series

Important

NC and NC_Promo series Azure virtual machines (VMs) will be retired on September 6, 2023. For more information, see the NC and NC_Promo retirement information. For how to migrate your workloads to other VM sizes, see the GPU compute migration guide.

This retirement announcement doesn't apply to NCv3, NCasT4v3 and NC A100 v4 series VMs.

NC-series VMs are powered by the NVIDIA Tesla K80 card and the Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 (Haswell) processor. Users can crunch through data faster by using CUDA for energy exploration applications, crash simulations, ray traced rendering, deep learning, and more. The NC24r configuration provides a low latency, high-throughput network interface optimized for tightly coupled parallel computing workloads.

Host specifications

Part Quantity
Count Units
Specs
SKU ID, Performance Units, etc.
Processor 6 - 24 vCPUs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 (Haswell) [x86-64]
Memory 56 - 224 GiB
Local Storage 1 Disk 340 - 1440 GiB
Remote Storage 24 - 64 Disks
Network 1 - 4 NICs Mbps
Accelerators 1 - 4 GPUs Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU (24GB)

Feature support

Premium Storage: Not Supported
Premium Storage caching: Not Supported
Live Migration: Not Supported
Memory Preserving Updates: Not Supported
Generation 2 VMs: Not Supported
Generation 1 VMs: Supported
Accelerated Networking: Not Supported
Ephemeral OS Disk: Not Supported
Nested Virtualization: Not Supported

Sizes in series

vCPUs (Qty.) and Memory for each size

Size Name vCPUs (Qty.) Memory (GB)
Standard_NC6 6 56
Standard_NC12 12 112
Standard_NC24 24 224
Standard_NC24r 24 224

VM Basics resources

Other size information

List of all available sizes: Sizes

Pricing Calculator: Pricing Calculator

Information on Disk Types: Disk Types

Next steps

Learn more about how Azure compute units (ACU) can help you compare compute performance across Azure SKUs.

Check out Azure Dedicated Hosts for physical servers able to host one or more virtual machines assigned to one Azure subscription.

Learn how to Monitor Azure virtual machines.