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Early benchmarks for Nvidia’s Vera data-center CPU, built on 88 in-house Olympus Arm v9.2 cores, show substantial performance gains over prior and rival chips. Phoronix results report a roughly 63% improvement versus Nvidia’s prior 72-core Grace processor, about 10% faster than a 64-core AMD EPYC 9575F, and roughly 55% ahead of Intel’s 128-core Xeon 6980P. Nvidia positions Vera for agentic AI and reinforcement-learning workloads, touting overall speedups versus x86 parts and much faster Linux kernel compilation. These preliminary tests suggest Nvidia’s move into high-performance Arm server silicon could reshape CPU choices for AI-heavy data centers.
Nvidia's Vera shows Arm server CPUs can outperform leading x86 chips on AI and compile workloads, which could shift datacenter CPU procurement and software optimization priorities. Tech teams should reassess CPU roadmaps, benchmarking practices, and software stack compatibility for Arm-based AI infrastructure.
Dossier last updated: 2026-05-30 10:23:04
Nvidia Vera CPU Benchmarks: Olympus Cores Delivering Great Performance
Nvidia Vera CPU Benchmarks: Olympus Cores Delivering Great Performance
Phoronix benchmark results for NVIDIA's new Vera data-center CPU show it is 63% faster on geometric mean than NVIDIA's prior 72-core Grace processor. Announced at GTC 2026 as a CPU optimized for agentic AI and reinforcement learning, Vera uses Arm v9.2 and 88 NVIDIA-designed Olympus cores. The preliminary suite also shows Vera outperforming a 64-core 5 GHz AMD EPYC 9575F by about 10% and beating Intel's 128-core Xeon 6980P by roughly 55%. NVIDIA highlighted additional claims that Vera is 1.5× faster than x86 processors overall and compiles the Linux kernel twice as fast, positioning the chip for AI workloads demanding high single-thread and multi-thread CPU performance.
Michael Larabel / Phoronix : Initial benchmarks show Nvidia's Vera CPU, which features 88 in-house-designed Olympus cores, packs a heavy-hitting punch, beating Intel's and AMD's x86_64 CPUs — NVIDIA's Vera data center CPU isn't ramping up until later this year but I recently had the opportunity to try out this new ARM-based CPU designed for agentic AI workloads.