Dear all,
I am totally new to Azure. I found that the CPU resources of Azure VMs are characterized by "the number of CPU cores" (e.g. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn197896.aspx). But how "fast" is this CPU core seems to be unclear. I only found on this page (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/dn689095.aspx) that A8 and A9 instances are with Xeon E52670 CPUs. And from this page (https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/azure/en-US/f791484c-7998-40c1-a096-2fe3348b0aa3/how-do-azure-instance-cpu-cores-map-to-physical-cores?forum=windowsazuredevelopment) I know that, different from Amazon AWS, which seems that one vCPU stands for one hyperthread, one CPU core in Azure stands for one real CPU core.
However, it is still unclear that for VMs other than A8 and A9 in Azure, are their CPUs identical to A8 and A9 (i.e., Xeon E52670)? Where could I find the above info? Thanks a lot.