c3-8 by OVHcloud

c3-8 is a Compute Optimized (4 vCPUs, 8 GiB RAM, 100 GB NVMe) server offered by OVHcloud with 4 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 100 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.102 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
100 GB Storage
Spare SCore
12,235
(All-cores)
3,077
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
ovh
Name
c3-8
Description
Compute Optimized (4 vCPUs, 8 GiB RAM, 100 GB NVMe)
Family
Compute Optimized
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
50
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-31T05:45:01.727720

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
AP-SOUTHEAST-SYD-2 (AU) / AP-SOUTHEAST-SYD-2
- 0.102 USD/h
AP-SOUTH-MUM-1 (IN) / AP-SOUTH-MUM-1
- 0.102 USD/h
BHS5 (CA) / BHS5
- 0.102 USD/h
DE1 (DE) / DE1
- 0.102 USD/h
EU-SOUTH-MIL (IT) / EU-SOUTH-MIL
- 0.102 USD/h
EU-WEST-PAR (FR) / EU-WEST-PAR
- 0.102 USD/h
GRA11 (FR) / GRA11
- 0.102 USD/h
GRA7 (FR) / GRA7
- 0.102 USD/h
GRA9 (FR) / GRA9
- 0.102 USD/h
RBX-A (FR) / RBX-A
- 0.102 USD/h
SBG5 (FR) / SBG5
- 0.102 USD/h
SBG7 (FR) / SBG7
- 0.102 USD/h
SGP1 (SG) / SGP1
- 0.102 USD/h
SYD1 (AU) / SYD1
- 0.102 USD/h
UK1 (GB) / UK1
- 0.102 USD/h
WAW1 (PL) / WAW1
- 0.102 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
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    100 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 100 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 compute-optimized virtual server featuring dedicated AMD EPYC cores and NVMe storage for CPU-intensive, low-memory workloads.

    Compute Optimized

    The OVHcloud c3-8 is a compute-optimized virtual server powered by an x86_64 AMD EPYC processor running at 2.3 GHz on a KVM hypervisor. It features 4 dedicated physical cores with hyperthreading disabled, 8.0 GB of RAM, and a 100 GB NVMe SSD. While stress-ng benchmarks show strong single-core CPU performance, its memory subsystem and static web serving throughput are relatively weak, placing in the bottom 25% of benchmarks. The server lacks GPU acceleration and has a baseline network bandwidth of 0 Gbps. Given its 1:2 vCPU-to-RAM ratio and dedicated CPU allocation, the c3-8 is qualitatively cost-effective for CPU-bound workloads that require dedicated execution threads but have modest memory requirements, such as lightweight software compilation, single-threaded processing, and basic application hosting.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.47Score
    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) 506,374 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.27 50.00% 50.00% -48.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,587,304 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.38 20.00% 20.00% -18.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,832 2,416 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 323,693 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 2.9 10.00% 10.00% +11.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,918 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,503

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 4,828

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 10,629
    Compression
    		 104,127
    Encryption
    		 5,190
    Extended Instructions
    		 9,683
    Floating Point Maths
    		 22,055
    Integer Maths
    		 24,027
    Physics
    		 1,404
    Prime Numbers
    		 77
    Single Threaded
    		 2,918
    String Sorting
    		 15,284

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,832
    Database Operations
    		 4,317
    Memory Latency
    		 67
    Memory Read Cached
    		 27,599
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 26,423
    Memory Write
    		 21,881

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 881.25 882.06 1.00×
    bitops
    		 160,584 639,816 3.98×
    branch
    		 213,414 846,813 3.97×
    funccall
    		 620.71 2,448 3.94×
    funcret
    		 21,426 84,790 3.96×
    hash
    		 163,117 651,551 3.99×
    intmath
    		 66,170 263,448 3.98×
    nop
    		 628,384 2,485,459 3.96×
    prime
    		 495,199 1,980,514 4.00×
    rotate
    		 88,510 351,373 3.97×
    str
    		 1,033,751 4,077,669 3.94×
    wcs
    		 678,240 2,716,656 4.01×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 3,705 14,859 4.01×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 905.95 3,556 3.93×
    zlib
    		 61.61 223.02 3.62×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 23,426 75,066 3.20×
    clone
    		 238.4 574.68 2.41×
    context
    		 2,949 11,712 3.97×
    cpu-sched
    		 75.87 253.59 3.34×
    eventfd
    		 40,853 256,748 6.28×
    fault
    		 10,156 36,470 3.59×
    fork
    		 4,353 15,880 3.65×
    getrandom
    		 53,289 211,922 3.98×
    hrtimers
    		 128,040 442,047 3.45×
    mprotect
    		 602,600 873,178 1.45×
    mtx
    		 44,664,344 431,122,163 9.65×
    munmap
    		 2,897 10,650 3.68×
    null
    		 353,829 1,405,141 3.97×
    pipe
    		 361,570 1,768,885 4.89×
    priv-instr
    		 418,533 1,590,480 3.80×
    resched
    		 1,059,307 554,519 0.52×
    switch
    		 112,851 443,323 3.93×
    timermix
    		 218,944 842,665 3.85×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 14,123 25,809 1.83×
    tsc
    		 784,575 3,127,498 3.99×
    usersyscall
    		 325,309 1,250,219 3.84×
    vdso
    		 84,138,888 335,145,461 3.98×
    vfork
    		 25,391 79,659 3.14×
    x86syscall
    		 4,002,061 15,919,057 3.98×
    yield
    		 2,640,899 2,748,398 1.04×
    zero
    		 2,768,541 11,000,300 3.97×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 16,206 65,319 4.03×
    expmath
    		 2,474 9,743 3.94×
    fma
    		 922,268 3,670,552 3.98×
    fp
    		 252 1,004 3.99×
    fractal
    		 7.4 29.4 3.97×
    hyperbolic
    		 3,584 15,262 4.26×
    logmath
    		 4,581 18,276 3.99×
    matrix
    		 5,036 19,859 3.94×
    matrix-3d
    		 938.79 3,812 4.06×
    monte-carlo
    		 171.53 685.63 4.00×
    mpfr
    		 1,695 6,725 3.97×
    powmath
    		 1,306 5,201 3.98×
    trig
    		 1,879 7,474 3.98×
    veccmp
    		 19,074 76,309 4.00×
    vecfp
    		 1,814 7,243 3.99×
    vecmath
    		 4,044 16,174 4.00×
    vecshuf
    		 640.27 2,549 3.98×
    vecwide
    		 28,697 114,166 3.98×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 10.4 41.6 4.00×
    bsearch
    		 307.61 1,227 3.99×
    bubblesort
    		 1 3.6 3.60×
    fibsearch
    		 380.37 1,500 3.94×
    heapsort
    		 10.8 43.4 4.02×
    hsearch
    		 11,588 45,388 3.92×
    insertionsort
    		 13 51.8 3.98×
    malloc
    		 3,857,632 14,066,191 3.65×
    mcontend
    		 115.68 613.88 5.31×
    mergesort
    		 34 134.2 3.95×
    qsort
    		 22 87.6 3.98×
    skiplist
    		 7,091 28,170 3.97×
    tree
    		 2 8 4.00×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 754,136 725,769 0.96×
    cachehammer
    		 313,364 1,114,435 3.56×
    cacheline
    		 42.65 170.44 4.00×
    l1cache
    		 254.89 1,051 4.12×
    memcpy
    		 449.7 1,788 3.98×
    memrate
    		 3.34 8.6 2.57×
    memthrash
    		 72.29 257.83 3.57×
    ptr-chase
    		 39,883,600 166,736,408 4.18×
    spinmem
    		 319.98 178.55 0.56×
    stream
    		 117.21 1,352 11.53×
    vm
    		 87,775 290,982 3.32×

    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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