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OVHcloud R3-16

Beauharnois

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 16, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,472
Faster than 77% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
2,744
Faster than 73% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
40,079
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$57.16
48 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    OVHcloud
  • Plan
    R3-16
  • Location
    Beauharnois
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    16 GB
  • Storage
    50 GB NVMe
  • Network
    500 Mbps
  • OS image
    Ubuntu 24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 16, 2026, 07:54:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,472 2,744 Geekbench Browser

Scores from different Geekbench versions aren't comparable with each other. Charts only use Geekbench 7.

Geekbench 7 workloads

Workload Single-core Multi-core
File Compression
1,514
54th of 216
2,609
65th of 147
Navigation
1,628
41st of 216
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,408
63rd of 216
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,521
58th of 216
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,321
69th of 216
2,645
68th of 147
Clang
1,261
69th of 216
2,498
78th of 147
Text Processing
1,308
67th of 216
2,457
72nd of 147
Asset Compression
1,437
76th of 216
2,853
74th of 147
HDR
1,458
61st of 216
2,674
63rd of 147
Photo Editor
1,682
52nd of 216
3,286
60th of 147
Ray Tracer
1,522
43rd of 216
3,025
69th of 147
Structure from Motion
1,593
65th of 216
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,369
67th of 216
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,467
53rd of 216
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,479
58th of 216
Single-core only
Video Player
1,667
48th of 216
Single-core only

Rank among the 216 runs with Geekbench 7 workload scores. Bars are relative to the best run. Geekbench doesn't run every workload multi-core, so some rows only have a single-core score.

Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

Test Result Runs Spread
Copy higher is better 42.2 GB/s 3 0.65%
Scale higher is better 27.6 GB/s 3 1.01%
Add higher is better 32 GB/s 3 0.375%
Triad higher is better 31.8 GB/s 3 0.747%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

TLS and crypto (OpenSSL)

Test Result Runs Spread
RSA 4096 signs higher is better 434/s 3 1.66%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 28,945/s 3 0.0352%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.65 GB/s 3 0.151%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 7.78 GB/s 3 0.0558%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 4.35 GB/s 3 0.131%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Scheduler latency (schbench)

Test Result Runs Spread
Request latency, median lower is better 4.57 ms 3 0.534%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 433/s 3 0.353%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 8.3 ms 3 1.02%
Requests per second, average higher is better 426/s 3 0.979%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 78.2 MB/s (20,013 IOPS) 78.4 MB/s (20,066 IOPS) 156.6 MB/s (40,079 IOPS)
64K 1.29 GB/s (21,153 IOPS) 1.3 GB/s (21,264 IOPS) 2.59 GB/s (42,417 IOPS)
512K 2.5 GB/s (5,128 IOPS) 2.64 GB/s (5,401 IOPS) 5.14 GB/s (10,529 IOPS)
1M 2.71 GB/s (2,775 IOPS) 2.89 GB/s (2,960 IOPS) 5.6 GB/s (5,735 IOPS)

fio random read and write, 50/50, run by YABS against the boot disk.

Network

IPv4 transfer speed

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Target Protocol Send Receive
Clouvider, London, UK (10G) IPv4 464 Mbps 474 Mbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 465 Mbps 468 Mbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 388 Mbps 390 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 303 Mbps 475 Mbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 488 Mbps 489 Mbps

Public iperf3 servers vary in capacity and availability. Compare a target only with itself over time.

Datastores

PostgreSQL

fsync speed (pg_test_fsync)

Method Operations per second Time per operation
One 8 kB write
open_datasync 7,422 0.135 ms
fdatasync 7,173 0.139 ms
fsync 5,129 0.195 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 5,781 0.173 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 3,689 0.271 ms
fdatasync 6,596 0.152 ms
fsync 4,961 0.202 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 2,939 0.34 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 5,626 0.178 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 2,925 0.342 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 1,472 0.679 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 865 1.16 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 428 2.34 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 4,820 0.207 ms
write, close, fsync 4,785 0.209 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 639,277 0.002 ms

pg_test_fsync against the Docker volume Postgres keeps its data on. fdatasync is Linux's default wal_sync_method.

pgbench at scale 10

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 2,213 0.445 ms 0.494 ms 0.593 ms 2.43 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 4,847 1.54 ms 2.61 ms 3.46 ms 5.58 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 4,764 5.56 ms 14.6 ms 23.1 ms 37.3 ms 0
Read only 1 26,116 0.037 ms 0.048 ms 0.059 ms 0.134 ms 0
Read only 8 50,762 0.139 ms 0.227 ms 0.275 ms 0.485 ms 0
Read only 32 54,361 0.471 ms 0.764 ms 1.01 ms 1.79 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.1 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

pgbench at scale 100

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 1,940 0.482 ms 0.557 ms 0.984 ms 5.92 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 4,280 1.64 ms 2.51 ms 10.6 ms 15.9 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 5,440 5.35 ms 9.75 ms 15.9 ms 33.4 ms 0
Read only 1 20,052 0.046 ms 0.064 ms 0.088 ms 0.551 ms 0
Read only 8 42,055 0.171 ms 0.282 ms 0.351 ms 0.805 ms 0
Read only 32 43,956 0.624 ms 0.989 ms 1.38 ms 2.47 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 10.7 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

MySQL

sysbench OLTP

Workload Threads Transactions/s Queries/s Median p95 p99 Errors
Read/write 1 435 8,701 2.18 ms 2.86 ms 5 ms 0
Read/write 8 857 17,134 9.06 ms 13.5 ms 17 ms 0
Read/write 32 931 18,626 35 ms 54.8 ms 70.5 ms 0
Read only 1 959 15,347 1.03 ms 1.16 ms 1.42 ms 0
Read only 8 1,666 26,656 4.65 ms 6.43 ms 7.04 ms 0
Read only 32 1,614 25,817 19.6 ms 25.3 ms 27.2 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 6.3 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 59,372 53,974 0.591 ms 3.1 ms 4.7 ms
1:1 set:get 59,502 29,751 0.583 ms 3.12 ms 4.67 ms

1,000,000 keys of 32 bytes. 64 connections over 2 threads, 60 s per ratio.

Web frameworks

Framework Fortunes req/s Single query req/s JSON req/s Fortunes p99 at 256 connections
Next.js nextjs 879 2,761 3,826 395 ms
Express express-postgresjs 7,989 11,575 30,937 54.5 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 7,841 12,004 32,182 60.6 ms
NestJS nestjs 5,377 5,872 18,463 79.7 ms
Nuxt nuxt 7,285 11,014 32,287 60.7 ms
FastAPI fastapi 3,629 4,593 19,193 353 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,334 1,573 3,307 292 ms
Rails rails 2,354 3,223 12,649 124 ms
Laravel laravel 858 919 1,630 308 ms
Symfony symfony 1,069 1,166 3,068 246 ms

Peak requests per second across the 64 and 256 connection levels, measured with wrk. Each test has to pass the TechEmpower response checks first, or it's marked invalid.

Web apps

WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 2.6 614 ms 663 ms 694 ms 0%
Shop page 2.6 833 ms 911 ms 952 ms 0%
Category page 2.6 523 ms 820 ms 837 ms 0%
Product page 2.6 561 ms 636 ms 683 ms 0%
Product search 2.6 491 ms 551 ms 579 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 2.62 2.23 s 2.48 s 2.63 s 0%
Shop page 2.62 2.91 s 3.33 s 3.41 s 0%
Category page 2.62 2.53 s 3.11 s 3.27 s 0%
Product page 2.62 2.22 s 2.41 s 2.45 s 0%
Product search 2.62 2.07 s 2.23 s 2.33 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 5 655 ms 755 ms 777 ms 0%
Cart 5 531 ms 617 ms 637 ms 0%
Checkout 5 413 ms 477 ms 490 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 5.05 2.14 s 2.6 s 2.69 s 0%
Cart 5.05 2.3 s 2.5 s 2.58 s 0%
Checkout 5.05 1.8 s 2.04 s 2.11 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 62 to 68 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

Discourse

Signed in

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Topic page 2.75 160 ms 195 ms 395 ms 0%
Topic JSON 1.38 83.4 ms 95.3 ms 196 ms 0%
Home page 1.38 146 ms 161 ms 312 ms 0%
Categories page 0.696 167 ms 181 ms 188 ms 0%
User activity page 0.679 101 ms 148 ms 228 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 4.82 365 ms 488 ms 798 ms 0%
Topic JSON 2.45 193 ms 239 ms 256 ms 0%
Home page 2.42 332 ms 432 ms 809 ms 0%
Categories page 1.24 378 ms 502 ms 722 ms 0%
User activity page 1.21 234 ms 422 ms 543 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 4.66 1.33 s 1.64 s 1.85 s 0%
Topic JSON 2.4 1.18 s 1.45 s 1.68 s 0%
Home page 2.35 1.33 s 1.63 s 1.76 s 0%
Categories page 1.19 1.34 s 1.71 s 1.89 s 0%
User activity page 1.14 1.23 s 1.5 s 1.57 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 106 42.4 ms 103 ms 126 ms 0%
Topic JSON 53.2 39.8 ms 102 ms 127 ms 0%
Home page 53.2 40.5 ms 100 ms 125 ms 0%
Categories page 26.6 41.2 ms 108 ms 133 ms 0%
User activity page 26.7 138 ms 211 ms 306 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 61 s per level, after a 21 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Discourse ran with 4 app workers and 4096 MB of Postgres shared buffers, what its installer picks for a 16 GB box. Its installer adds no swap on a box this big. The container peaked at 1,997 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 11.3 26.6 ms 29.6 ms 36.8 ms 0%
Post page 28.2 12.6 ms 14.9 ms 22.4 ms 0%
Tag page 5.65 17.2 ms 19.5 ms 24.7 ms 0%
Author page 5.65 17.8 ms 20.6 ms 24.9 ms 0%
RSS feed 5.63 22.1 ms 24.8 ms 33.5 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 13.6 80.8 ms 97.8 ms 108 ms 0%
Post page 33.9 54.1 ms 73.1 ms 81.1 ms 0%
Tag page 6.79 47.5 ms 68.2 ms 77.6 ms 0%
Author page 6.79 49.8 ms 66.5 ms 76.3 ms 0%
RSS feed 6.78 54.9 ms 72.5 ms 77.8 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 13.8 294 ms 346 ms 387 ms 0%
Post page 34.4 245 ms 291 ms 331 ms 0%
Tag page 6.86 160 ms 199 ms 236 ms 0%
Author page 6.86 159 ms 198 ms 235 ms 0%
RSS feed 6.86 166 ms 198 ms 235 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 6.3 24.5 ms 28.4 ms 37.6 ms 0%
Post editor 18.9 9.04 ms 11.6 ms 18 ms 0%
Saving a draft 18.9 22.7 ms 28.5 ms 36.3 ms 0%
Member list 6.3 29.1 ms 36 ms 42.5 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 7.8 32 ms 37.9 ms 42.3 ms 0%
Post editor 23.5 16.1 ms 19.8 ms 22.6 ms 0%
Saving a draft 23.5 127 ms 159 ms 174 ms 0%
Member list 7.81 39.6 ms 44.9 ms 50.4 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 s per level, after a 20 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Ghost ran the way its ghost-docker setup runs it: one Node process, and MySQL with its stock 128 MB buffer pool. Memory peaked with Ghost at 546 MB and MySQL at 624 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.99 68 ms 70.6 ms 72.8 ms 0%
Blog index 1.99 228 ms 233 ms 234 ms 0%
Blog post 5.94 21.4 ms 33.1 ms 35.4 ms 0%
Bread page 5.96 23.9 ms 25.4 ms 26.2 ms 0%
Location page 1.99 22.5 ms 24.6 ms 25.3 ms 0%
Site search 1.97 37.3 ms 60.8 ms 62.8 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 3.02 187 ms 261 ms 287 ms 0%
Blog index 3.07 619 ms 840 ms 897 ms 0%
Blog post 9.07 53.1 ms 81 ms 107 ms 0%
Bread page 9.12 58.9 ms 85.6 ms 101 ms 0%
Location page 3.07 59 ms 79.6 ms 89.4 ms 0%
Site search 3.01 90 ms 162 ms 213 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 2.88 629 ms 835 ms 872 ms 0%
Blog index 2.96 1.64 s 1.96 s 2.07 s 0%
Blog post 8.64 356 ms 616 ms 797 ms 0%
Bread page 8.71 366 ms 607 ms 777 ms 0%
Location page 2.93 357 ms 612 ms 869 ms 0%
Site search 2.86 425 ms 708 ms 849 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.743 73.9 ms 77.1 ms 94.5 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.52 326 ms 348 ms 436 ms 0%
Page editor 2.25 150 ms 187 ms 259 ms 0%
Image library 0.743 57 ms 60.9 ms 437 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.743 30.4 ms 66.8 ms 69.9 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 1.2 251 ms 493 ms 617 ms 0%
Page explorer 2.45 748 ms 1.16 s 1.25 s 0%
Page editor 3.69 369 ms 664 ms 765 ms 0%
Image library 1.24 180 ms 452 ms 511 ms 0%
Admin page search 1.24 69 ms 191 ms 242 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 61 s per level, after a 21 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Wagtail ran the way bakerydemo ships it: uWSGI with 2 workers of 4 threads each, whatever the box, and Postgres and Redis on stock settings. Memory peaked with Wagtail at 298 MB, Postgres at 147 MB, and Redis at 8 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 16 GB 15.2 GiB
Storage 50 GB NVMe 48.4 GiB
Architecture x86_64 x86_64
Virtualization KVM KVM

Guests usually report slightly less RAM and disk than advertised because of kernel reservations and filesystem overhead.

Detected hardware

CPU model
AMD EPYC-Milan Processor
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
2445 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
15.2 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
48.4 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-136-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
R3-16
Product line
Memory Optimized R3
Location
Beauharnois
vCPU
2 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
16 GB
Storage
50 GB NVMe
Virtualization
KVM
Network
500 Mbps
Transfer
Unmetered
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
$57.16
Hourly price at test time
$0.078
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 16, 2026, 07:55:32 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 16, 2026, 07:54:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 16, 2026, 07:55:25 UTC
Completed
Oct 16, 2026, 09:30:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 16, 2026, 09:30:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.13
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