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 0.0595 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
50 GB Storage
Spare SCore
6,104
(All-cores)
3,078
(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
Average Time To Start
41
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-06T22:31:39.914234

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
AP-SOUTHEAST-SYD-2 (AU) / AP-SOUTHEAST-SYD-2
- 0.0595 USD/h
AP-SOUTH-MUM-1 (IN) / AP-SOUTH-MUM-1
- 0.0595 USD/h
BHS5 (CA) / BHS5
- 0.0595 USD/h
DE1 (DE) / DE1
- 0.0595 USD/h
EU-SOUTH-MIL (IT) / EU-SOUTH-MIL
- 0.0595 USD/h
EU-WEST-PAR (FR) / EU-WEST-PAR
- 0.0595 USD/h
GRA11 (FR) / GRA11
- 0.0595 USD/h
GRA7 (FR) / GRA7
- 0.0595 USD/h
GRA9 (FR) / GRA9
- 0.0595 USD/h
RBX-A (FR) / RBX-A
- 0.0595 USD/h
SBG5 (FR) / SBG5
- 0.0595 USD/h
SBG7 (FR) / SBG7
- 0.0595 USD/h
SGP1 (SG) / SGP1
- 0.0595 USD/h
SYD1 (AU) / SYD1
- 0.0595 USD/h
UK1 (GB) / UK1
- 0.0595 USD/h
WAW1 (PL) / WAW1
- 0.0595 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 virtual server with NVMe storage, delivering strong single-core performance for lightweight general-purpose workloads and development.

    General Purpose

    The OVHcloud b3-8 is a general-purpose virtual server built on the KVM hypervisor and powered by an x86_64 AMD EPYC processor. It features 2 dedicated physical cores running at 2.3 GHz, paired with 8.0 GB of RAM and 50 GB of local NVMe SSD storage. Benchmarks reveal strong single-core CPU performance, though multi-core scaling and memory bandwidth are more modest, placing in the average to weak categories. The server shows lower throughput in database operations and static web serving, making it less suitable for high-traffic applications. It is qualitatively cost-efficient for entry-level dedicated resource needs, making it a practical fit for lightweight general-purpose workloads, single-threaded tasks, development environments, and basic text processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.272Score
    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) 261,353 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.136 50.00% 50.00% -63.10%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,366,656 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.203 20.00% 20.00% -27.30%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,472 2,418 0.609 10.00% 10.00% -4.84%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 164,824 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 1.52 10.00% 10.00% +4.28%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,932 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.24 10.00% 10.00% +2.17%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,898

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 3,405

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    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

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    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

    PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

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    b3-64 1664 GiB0

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