c3-16 by OVHcloud

c3-16 is a Compute Optimized (8 vCPUs, 16 GiB RAM, 200 GB NVMe) server offered by OVHcloud with 8 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 200 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2108 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
200 GB Storage
Spare SCore
24,577
(All-cores)
3,078
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
ovh
Name
c3-16
Description
Compute Optimized (8 vCPUs, 16 GiB RAM, 200 GB NVMe)
Family
Compute Optimized
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
45
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-14T12:59:04.543837

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
AP-SOUTHEAST-SYD-2 (AU) / AP-SOUTHEAST-SYD-2
- 0.2108 USD/h
AP-SOUTH-MUM-1 (IN) / AP-SOUTH-MUM-1
- 0.2108 USD/h
BHS5 (CA) / BHS5
- 0.2108 USD/h
DE1 (DE) / DE1
- 0.2108 USD/h
EU-SOUTH-MIL (IT) / EU-SOUTH-MIL
- 0.2108 USD/h
EU-WEST-PAR (FR) / EU-WEST-PAR
- 0.2108 USD/h
GRA11 (FR) / GRA11
- 0.2108 USD/h
GRA7 (FR) / GRA7
- 0.2108 USD/h
GRA9 (FR) / GRA9
- 0.2108 USD/h
RBX-A (FR) / RBX-A
- 0.2108 USD/h
SBG5 (FR) / SBG5
- 0.2108 USD/h
SBG7 (FR) / SBG7
- 0.2108 USD/h
SGP1 (SG) / SGP1
- 0.2108 USD/h
SYD1 (AU) / SYD1
- 0.2108 USD/h
UK1 (GB) / UK1
- 0.2108 USD/h
WAW1 (PL) / WAW1
- 0.2108 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
256 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
8
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
    200 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 200 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 compute-optimized virtual server featuring dedicated AMD EPYC cores and fast NVMe storage for predictable single-core performance.

    Compute OptimizedStorage & Database

    The OVHcloud c3-16 is a compute-optimized virtual server featuring 8 dedicated AMD EPYC physical cores running at 2.3 GHz on the KVM hypervisor. It is configured with 16.0 GB of RAM, yielding 2.0 GB per core, and includes 200 GB of local NVMe SSD storage alongside a 1 Gbps baseline network interface. Performance benchmarks show strong single-core capabilities, particularly in stress-ng CPU tests and text processing, while multi-core performance and memory bandwidth remain in the average tier. Lacking hyperthreading, the instance provides predictable, dedicated execution. This hardware profile represents a cost-efficient option for compute-bound tasks requiring dedicated resources without high memory overhead. It is well-suited for workloads such as web serving, software compilation, text processing, and moderate database operations.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.82Score
    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) 924,480 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.482 50.00% 50.00% -30.60%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 9,586,529 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.821 20.00% 20.00% -3.87%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,432 2,418 1.01 10.00% 10.00% +0.10%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 675,870 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 6.25 10.00% 10.00% +20.10%
    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: 1,912

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,773

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 20440
    Compression
    		 210290
    Encryption
    		 10434
    Extended Instructions
    		 19895
    Floating Point Maths
    		 44285
    Integer Maths
    		 48301
    Physics
    		 2844
    Prime Numbers
    		 156
    Single Threaded
    		 2940
    String Sorting
    		 31046

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2432
    Database Operations
    		 8725
    Memory Latency
    		 66
    Memory Read Cached
    		 27813
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 26680
    Memory Write
    		 22658

    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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