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 1.1594 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
69
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-05T15:56:16.683977

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
BHS5 (CA) / BHS5
- 1.1594 USD/h
DE1 (DE) / DE1
- 1.1594 USD/h
GRA11 (FR) / GRA11
- 1.1594 USD/h
GRA7 (FR) / GRA7
- 1.1594 USD/h
GRA9 (FR) / GRA9
- 1.1594 USD/h
RBX-A (FR) / RBX-A
- 1.1594 USD/h
SBG5 (FR) / SBG5
- 1.1594 USD/h
SBG7 (FR) / SBG7
- 1.1594 USD/h
SGP1 (SG) / SGP1
- 1.1594 USD/h
SYD1 (AU) / SYD1
- 1.1594 USD/h
UK1 (GB) / UK1
- 1.1594 USD/h
WAW1 (PL) / WAW1
- 1.1594 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
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    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 32-core general-purpose instance balancing multi-threaded processing power with local SSD storage and high-speed network connectivity.

    General Purpose

    OVHcloud b2-120 is a general-purpose server instance featuring 32 dedicated Intel x86_64 vCPUs running at 2.0 GHz, 120.0 GB of RAM, and a bundled 400 GB local SSD. Operating on the KVM hypervisor, it provides a 10 Gbps baseline network bandwidth. Benchmark data indicates a significant performance tradeoff: while single-core CPU and text processing performance is weak, multi-core execution, memory bandwidth, and database operations consistently achieve average tier results. The instance is well-suited for multi-threaded applications, software compilation, and static web serving, but is less effective for single-threaded tasks or large-scale language model text generation.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.3Score
    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 1,933,252 ops/sec 1.5 50.00% 50.00% +22.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 21,009,265 ops/sec 11,794,699 ops/sec 1.8 20.00% 20.00% +12.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,096 2,408 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 56,283 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 0.51 10.00% 10.00% -6.50%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,124 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,094

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 7,889

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 29,272
    Compression
    		 533,843
    Encryption
    		 9,334
    Extended Instructions
    		 32,448
    Floating Point Maths
    		 85,125
    Integer Maths
    		 105,167
    Physics
    		 1,962
    Prime Numbers
    		 189
    Single Threaded
    		 2,124
    String Sorting
    		 61,577

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,096
    Database Operations
    		 16,173
    Memory Latency
    		 66
    Memory Read Cached
    		 23,008
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8,000
    Memory Write
    		 6,795

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 287.75 136.34 0.47×
    bitops
    		 127,517 3,856,479 30.24×
    branch
    		 183,495 5,510,746 30.03×
    funccall
    		 638.07 19,416 30.43×
    funcret
    		 13,427 406,357 30.27×
    hash
    		 149,864 4,503,216 30.05×
    intmath
    		 26,760 798,129 29.83×
    nop
    		 227,312 6,815,516 29.98×
    prime
    		 365,942 11,154,750 30.48×
    rotate
    		 115,231 3,451,064 29.95×
    str
    		 792,463 25,392,370 32.04×
    wcs
    		 561,278 16,748,853 29.84×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,883 86,748 30.09×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 680.49 20,266 29.78×
    zlib
    		 46.8 1,661 35.50×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 30,157 153,879 5.10×
    clone
    		 434.46 8,115 18.68×
    context
    		 2,376 70,362 29.62×
    cpu-sched
    		 61.87 2,022 32.67×
    eventfd
    		 60,611 1,157,947 19.10×
    fault
    		 11,932 90,420 7.58×
    fork
    		 2,789 55,829 20.01×
    getrandom
    		 57,927 1,743,756 30.10×
    hrtimers
    		 1,714,280 3,281,063 1.91×
    mprotect
    		 613,886 6,229,411 10.15×
    mtx
    		 9,643,712 1,070,099,298 110.96×
    munmap
    		 1,559 45,778 29.36×
    null
    		 239,000 7,239,010 30.29×
    pipe
    		 335,223 8,243,893 24.59×
    priv-instr
    		 532,744 8,778,390 16.48×
    resched
    		 4,059,164 6,255,182 1.54×
    switch
    		 114,906 4,549,910 39.60×
    timermix
    		 251,162 6,395,035 25.46×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 9,259 77,592 8.38×
    tsc
    		 1,166,987 35,289,671 30.24×
    usersyscall
    		 387,554 8,297,040 21.41×
    vdso
    		 84,381,526 2,545,422,037 30.17×
    vfork
    		 22,227 95,713 4.31×
    x86syscall
    		 2,800,070 82,268,090 29.38×
    yield
    		 25,290,947 27,047,083 1.07×
    zero
    		 1,902,981 56,413,148 29.64×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 19,074 576,099 30.20×
    expmath
    		 3,207 96,043 29.95×
    fma
    		 701,546 20,198,284 28.79×
    fp
    		 151.2 4,342 28.72×
    fractal
    		 5.8 171.68 29.60×
    hyperbolic
    		 3,344 100,336 30.01×
    logmath
    		 5,349 161,153 30.13×
    matrix
    		 3,737 112,856 30.20×
    matrix-3d
    		 704.88 5,572 7.90×
    monte-carlo
    		 127.93 3,765 29.43×
    mpfr
    		 1,444 43,206 29.92×
    powmath
    		 1,869 56,782 30.38×
    trig
    		 2,018 61,366 30.41×
    veccmp
    		 18,600 561,682 30.20×
    vecfp
    		 1,582 47,565 30.06×
    vecmath
    		 2,615 79,014 30.22×
    vecshuf
    		 667.35 20,173 30.23×
    vecwide
    		 29,215 854,034 29.23×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 8.4 255.99 30.48×
    bsearch
    		 283.97 8,593 30.26×
    bubblesort
    		 0.8 25.6 32.00×
    fibsearch
    		 288.2 8,725 30.27×
    heapsort
    		 10.4 312.99 30.10×
    hsearch
    		 5,808 169,542 29.19×
    insertionsort
    		 9.6 293.2 30.54×
    malloc
    		 2,312,023 33,998,934 14.71×
    mcontend
    		 69.37 8,531 122.98×
    mergesort
    		 27 827.78 30.66×
    qsort
    		 17.8 532.99 29.94×
    skiplist
    		 5,773 174,492 30.23×
    tree
    		 1.6 29.97 18.73×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 563,843 1,347,543 2.39×
    cachehammer
    		 372,410 12,111,251 32.52×
    cacheline
    		 16.75 1,139 68.02×
    l1cache
    		 270.51 8,020 29.65×
    memcpy
    		 414.66 12,445 30.01×
    memrate
    		 1.17 17.74 15.16×
    memthrash
    		 171.24 998.69 5.83×
    ptr-chase
    		 34,331,331 309,355,045 9.01×
    spinmem
    		 171.79 1,193 6.94×
    stream
    		 84.93 30,270 356.42×
    vm
    		 56,581 297,347 5.26×

    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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