b3-16 by OVHcloud

b3-16 is a General Purpose (4 vCPUs, 16 GiB RAM, 100 GB NVMe) server offered by OVHcloud with 4 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 100 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1186 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
100 GB Storage
Spare SCore
12,081
(All-cores)
3,010
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
ovh
Name
b3-16
Description
General Purpose (4 vCPUs, 16 GiB RAM, 100 GB NVMe)
Family
General Purpose
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
43
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-12T18:55:09.766872

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
AP-SOUTHEAST-SYD-2 (AU) / AP-SOUTHEAST-SYD-2
- 0.1186 USD/h
AP-SOUTH-MUM-1 (IN) / AP-SOUTH-MUM-1
- 0.1186 USD/h
BHS5 (CA) / BHS5
- 0.1186 USD/h
DE1 (DE) / DE1
- 0.1186 USD/h
EU-SOUTH-MIL (IT) / EU-SOUTH-MIL
- 0.1186 USD/h
EU-WEST-PAR (FR) / EU-WEST-PAR
- 0.1186 USD/h
GRA11 (FR) / GRA11
- 0.1186 USD/h
GRA7 (FR) / GRA7
- 0.1186 USD/h
GRA9 (FR) / GRA9
- 0.1186 USD/h
RBX-A (FR) / RBX-A
- 0.1186 USD/h
SBG5 (FR) / SBG5
- 0.1186 USD/h
SBG7 (FR) / SBG7
- 0.1186 USD/h
SGP1 (SG) / SGP1
- 0.1186 USD/h
SYD1 (AU) / SYD1
- 0.1186 USD/h
UK1 (GB) / UK1
- 0.1186 USD/h
WAW1 (PL) / WAW1
- 0.1186 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
128 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, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, rep_good, nopl, cpuid, extd_apicid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, svm, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, topoext, perfctr_core, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, vmmcall, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, clzero, xsaveerptr, wbnoinvd, arat, npt, nrip_save, umip, pku, ospke, rdpid, fsrm
Ecpus
4
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    100 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 100 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    1 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 balanced general-purpose server with dedicated AMD EPYC cores, local NVMe storage, and strong single-core performance for reliable application hosting.

    General PurposeStorage & Database

    The OVHcloud b3-16 is a general-purpose virtual server built on the x86_64 architecture and powered by a dedicated AMD EPYC processor. It features 4 physical cores (1 thread per core) running at 2.3 GHz, paired with 16.0 GB of RAM and 100 GB of local NVMe SSD storage. Operating on a KVM hypervisor, the server provides a baseline network bandwidth of 1 Gbps. Performance benchmarks show strong single-core capabilities, particularly in text processing and single-threaded CPU tasks, while multi-core operations and memory bandwidth remain average. Tradeoffs include lower performance in static web serving and medium LLM prompt processing. This configuration is suitable for general-purpose workloads, application hosting, and database operations requiring dedicated CPU resources without GPU acceleration.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.48Score
    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) 489,897 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.256 50.00% 50.00% -49.40%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,675,632 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.4 20.00% 20.00% -16.70%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,330 2,418 0.964 10.00% 10.00% -0.37%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 334,690 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 3.09 10.00% 10.00% +11.90%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,940 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.24 10.00% 10.00% +2.17%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,896

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 5,943

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 10641
    Compression
    		 104230
    Encryption
    		 5201
    Extended Instructions
    		 9593
    Floating Point Maths
    		 22048
    Integer Maths
    		 24084
    Physics
    		 1404
    Prime Numbers
    		 77
    Single Threaded
    		 2940
    String Sorting
    		 15404

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2330
    Database Operations
    		 4287
    Memory Latency
    		 68
    Memory Read Cached
    		 27726
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 25091
    Memory Write
    		 24024

    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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