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 0.0591 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	2026-09-14T22:31:00.796230

Availability

REGION / ID	SPOT	ONDEMAND
AP-SOUTHEAST-SYD-2 (AU) / AP-SOUTHEAST-SYD-2	-	0.0591 USD/h
AP-SOUTH-MUM-1 (IN) / AP-SOUTH-MUM-1	-	0.0591 USD/h
BHS5 (CA) / BHS5	-	0.0591 USD/h
DE1 (DE) / DE1	-	0.0591 USD/h
EU-SOUTH-MIL (IT) / EU-SOUTH-MIL	-	0.0591 USD/h
EU-WEST-PAR (FR) / EU-WEST-PAR	-	0.0591 USD/h
GRA11 (FR) / GRA11	-	0.0591 USD/h
GRA7 (FR) / GRA7	-	0.0591 USD/h
GRA9 (FR) / GRA9	-	0.0591 USD/h
RBX-A (FR) / RBX-A	-	0.0591 USD/h
SBG5 (FR) / SBG5	-	0.0591 USD/h
SBG7 (FR) / SBG7	-	0.0591 USD/h
SGP1 (SG) / SGP1	-	0.0591 USD/h
SYD1 (AU) / SYD1	-	0.0591 USD/h
UK1 (GB) / UK1	-	0.0591 USD/h
WAW1 (PL) / WAW1	-	0.0591 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.

General Purpose

OVHcloud b3-8 is a general-purpose virtual server featuring 2 dedicated vCPUs powered by an AMD EPYC x86_64 processor running at 2.3 GHz. It is configured with 8.0 GB of RAM and a bundled 50 GB NVMe SSD for local storage. Operating on the KVM hypervisor, the instance delivers strong single-core CPU performance, placing in the top 25% in stress-ng benchmarks. However, its multi-core capabilities, memory bandwidth for small blocks, and database operations fall into the lower performance tiers. Static web serving throughput is also limited, ranking in the bottom 10%. Given these performance characteristics, the b3-8 is qualitatively cost-efficient for lightweight, single-threaded applications, development environments, and basic text processing tasks, rather than high-throughput web serving or intensive database workloads.

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
Component	Raw		Reference		Normalized	Target	Actual	Impact
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

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

PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

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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Processor

System Resources and Accelerators

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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

PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

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

PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

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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