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Thomas
Thomas

Reputation: 2116

Azure VM Core vs vCPU

When comparing two different VM series in Azure, I see that one has Cores and the other one vCPUs. Keeping aside the number of Cores/CPUs, Memory and Processor Type (Intel Xeon E/Platinum etc), what is the advantage of one over the other? I understand that CPU can have multiple cores, but in Azure what is the difference between 4 vCPUs and 4 vCores?

G Series with Core D Series with vCPU

Upvotes: 20

Views: 37149

Answers (1)

Ivan Glasenberg
Ivan Glasenberg

Reputation: 29985

A core is a physical unit of a CPU.

A virtual CPU (vCPU) also known as a virtual processor, is a physical central processing unit (CPU) that is assigned to a virtual machine (VM).

For more details, you can refer to these msdn answers: this and this.

Upvotes: 12

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