b2-120 by OVHcloud

b2-120 is a General Purpose (32 vCPUs, 120 GiB RAM, 400 GB SSD) server offered by OVHcloud with 32 vCPUs, 120 GiB of memory and 400 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.1838 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
120 GiB Memory
400 GB Storage
Spare SCore
21,856
(All-cores)
948
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
ovh
Name
b2-120
Description
General Purpose (32 vCPUs, 120 GiB RAM, 400 GB SSD)
Family
General Purpose
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
68.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-21T06:41:31.269748

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
BHS5 (CA) / BHS5
- 1.1838 USD/h
DE1 (DE) / DE1
- 1.1838 USD/h
GRA11 (FR) / GRA11
- 1.1838 USD/h
GRA7 (FR) / GRA7
- 1.1838 USD/h
GRA9 (FR) / GRA9
- 1.1838 USD/h
RBX-A (FR) / RBX-A
- 1.1838 USD/h
SBG5 (FR) / SBG5
- 1.1838 USD/h
SBG7 (FR) / SBG7
- 1.1838 USD/h
SGP1 (SG) / SGP1
- 1.1838 USD/h
SYD1 (AU) / SYD1
- 1.1838 USD/h
UK1 (GB) / UK1
- 1.1838 USD/h
WAW1 (PL) / WAW1
- 1.1838 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
32
CPU Speed
2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Model
(Haswell, no TSX)
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
4 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
128 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
512 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, syscall, nx, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, cpuid_fault, pti, tpr_shadow, flexpriority, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, xsaveopt, arat, vnmi, md_clear
Ecpus
23.1
Scalability
72.19

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
120 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
117 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    400 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 400 GB ssd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    10 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    4 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    1

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A dedicated multi-core instance balancing 120 GB of memory and local SSD storage for parallelized general-purpose workloads.

    General Purpose

    OVHcloud b2-120 is a general-purpose server instance built on the x86_64 architecture and KVM hypervisor. It features 32 dedicated physical Intel Haswell cores running at 2.0 GHz with no hyperthreading, paired with 120.0 GB of RAM and 400 GB of local SSD storage. Network connectivity is supported by a 10 Gbps baseline bandwidth. Performance benchmarks indicate a significant tradeoff: single-core CPU performance is weak, ranking in the bottom 10% to 25%, whereas multi-core performance, memory bandwidth, and database operations achieve average ratings. This resource profile makes the instance suitable for parallelized workloads such as software compilation, database operations, and static web serving, while remaining less optimal for single-threaded applications or real-time LLM text generation.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.26Score
    Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
    Component Score Weight Impact
    Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
    Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 2,877,779 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 1.5 50.00% 50.00% +22.50%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 21,009,265 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 1.79 20.00% 20.00% +12.30%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,096 2,418 0.867 10.00% 10.00% -1.42%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 56,283 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 0.52 10.00% 10.00% -6.33%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,124 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.898 10.00% 10.00% -1.07%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,098

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 8,741

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 29272
    Compression
    		 533843
    Encryption
    		 9334
    Extended Instructions
    		 32448
    Floating Point Maths
    		 85125
    Integer Maths
    		 105167
    Physics
    		 1962
    Prime Numbers
    		 189
    Single Threaded
    		 2124
    String Sorting
    		 61577

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2096
    Database Operations
    		 16173
    Memory Latency
    		 66
    Memory Read Cached
    		 23008
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8000
    Memory Write
    		 6795

    Stress-ng Raw Scores

    Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

    LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

    LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

    Static Web Server

    Redis

    PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

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