b3-8 by OVHcloud

b3-8 is a General Purpose (2 vCPUs, 8 GiB RAM, 50 GB NVMe) server offered by OVHcloud with 2 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 50 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0588 USD per hour.

2 vCPU

8 GiB Memory

50 GB Storage

Spare SCore

6104
(All-cores)

3078
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID	ovh
Name	b3-8
Description	General Purpose (2 vCPUs, 8 GiB RAM, 50 GB NVMe)
Family	General Purpose
Hw Virt
Status	active
Observed At	2026-07-31T15:52:26.475212

Availability

REGION / ID	SPOT	ONDEMAND
AP-SOUTHEAST-SYD-2 (AU) / AP-SOUTHEAST-SYD-2	-	0.0588 USD/h
AP-SOUTH-MUM-1 (IN) / AP-SOUTH-MUM-1	-	0.0588 USD/h
BHS5 (CA) / BHS5	-	0.0588 USD/h
DE1 (DE) / DE1	-	0.0588 USD/h
EU-SOUTH-MIL (IT) / EU-SOUTH-MIL	-	0.0588 USD/h
EU-WEST-PAR (FR) / EU-WEST-PAR	-	0.0588 USD/h
GRA11 (FR) / GRA11	-	0.0588 USD/h
GRA7 (FR) / GRA7	-	0.0588 USD/h
GRA9 (FR) / GRA9	-	0.0588 USD/h
RBX-A (FR) / RBX-A	-	0.0588 USD/h
SBG5 (FR) / SBG5	-	0.0588 USD/h
SBG7 (FR) / SBG7	-	0.0588 USD/h
SGP1 (SG) / SGP1	-	0.0588 USD/h
SYD1 (AU) / SYD1	-	0.0588 USD/h
UK1 (GB) / UK1	-	0.0588 USD/h
WAW1 (PL) / WAW1	-	0.0588 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs	2
Hypervisor	KVM
CPU Allocation	Dedicated
CPU Cores	2
CPU Speed	2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture	x86_64
CPU Manufacturer	AMD
CPU Family	EPYC
CPU L1D Cache	32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total	64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache	32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total	64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache	512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total	1 MiB
CPU L3 Cache	32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total	64 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	2
Scalability	100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount	8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual	8 GiB

GPU
GPU Count	0
GPU Memory Min	0 MiB
GPU Memory Total	0 MiB
GPUs

STORAGE
Storage Size	50 GB
Storage Type	nvme ssd
Storages	50 GB nvme ssd

NETWORK
Network Speed Baseline	0.5 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 dual-core AMD EPYC virtual server with NVMe storage, delivering strong single-threaded performance for general-purpose workloads.

General Purpose

The OVHcloud b3-8 is a general-purpose virtual server built on the KVM hypervisor and x86_64 architecture. It features 2 dedicated AMD EPYC vCPUs running at 2.3 GHz, 8.0 GB of RAM, and 50 GB of local NVMe SSD storage. Performance benchmarks reveal a strong single-core profile, with stress-ng and Geekbench single-core scores ranking in the top 25%. Conversely, multi-core and memory-intensive benchmarks, such as Passmark CPU and database operations, fall into the lower 25% tier. Memory bandwidth for large blocks is average, while static web serving throughput is poor. This resource density makes the instance a qualitatively cost-effective option for single-threaded applications, text processing, and lightweight development tasks, while it remains less suited for highly parallelized workloads, software compilation, or high-throughput web serving.

Economics

Average Price per Region

Prices per Zone

Lowest Prices

Performance

Workload Profiles

0.275Score

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
Component	Raw		Reference		Normalized	Target	Actual	Impact
Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET)	261,353	ops/sec	1,896,415	ops/sec	0.138	50.00%	50.00%	-62.90%
Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET)	2,366,656	ops/sec	11,539,523	ops/sec	0.205	20.00%	20.00%	-27.20%
PassMark Memory Mark (composite)	1,472		2,411		0.611	10.00%	10.00%	-4.81%
Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3)	164,824	MB/sec	107,368	MB/sec	1.54	10.00%	10.00%	+4.41%
PassMark single-thread CPU	2,932	Mops/s	2,363	Mops/s	1.24	10.00%	10.00%	+2.17%

Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench Single-Core

Score: 1,898

Geekbench Multi-Core

Score: 3,453

Passmark CPU Scores

BENCHMARK	SCORE
Mark	5425
Compression	51921
Encryption	2584
Extended Instructions	4712
Floating Point Maths	10980
Integer Maths	11983
Physics	702
Prime Numbers	39
Single Threaded	2932
String Sorting	7666

Passmark Memory Scores

BENCHMARK	SCORE
Memory Mark	1472
Database Operations	2177
Memory Latency	66
Memory Read Cached	27817
Memory Read Uncached	25376
Memory Write	23274

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

Alternatives

Servers of the Same Family

INSTANCE	vCPUs	MEMORY
b2-7	2	7 GiB
b2-15	4	15 GiB
b3-16	4	16 GiB
b2-30	8	30 GiB
b3-32	8	32 GiB
b2-60	16	60 GiB
b3-64	16	64 GiB

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Specifications

Server Metadata

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Processor

System Resources and Accelerators

CPU and System Topology

Server Description

Economics

Average Price per Region

Prices per Zone

Lowest Prices

Performance

Workload Profiles

Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench Single-Core

Geekbench Multi-Core

Passmark CPU Scores

Passmark Memory Scores

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

Alternatives

Servers of the Same Family

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b3-8 by OVHcloud

Specifications

Server Metadata

Availability

Processor

System Resources and Accelerators

CPU and System Topology

Server Description

Economics

Average Price per Region

Prices per Zone

Lowest Prices

Performance

Workload Profiles

Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench Single-Core

Geekbench Multi-Core

Passmark CPU Scores

Passmark Memory Scores

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

Alternatives

Servers of the Same Family

Similar Servers

b3-8 FAQs

What is b3-8?

What are the specs of the b3-8 server?

How fast is the b3-8 server?

How much does the b3-8 server cost?

Who is the provider of the b3-8 server?

Where is the b3-8 server available?

Are there any other sized servers in the General Purpose server family?

What other servers offer similar performance to b3-8?

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