Nvidia’s 88-core Vera CPU beats Intel and AMD in benchmarks
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Nvidia has unveiled early benchmarks for its upcoming Vera data center CPU, featuring the company’s first in-house designed "Olympus" processor cores. Built with 88 cores and supporting 176 threads through spatial multi-threading, the Vera CPU is specifically optimized for agentic AI and modern data center workloads.
Unlike the previous Grace architecture which used standard Arm designs, Vera employs the Armv9.2 ISA with custom enhancements, including FP8 precision support, 1.2TB/s of memory bandwidth via LPDDR5X, and PCIe Gen 6 connectivity. Initial testing indicates that the Vera processor delivers performance levels highly competitive with flagship x86_64 offerings from Intel and AMD, marking a significant step forward for Arm-based server hardware.