$NVDA Vera CPU tops $AMD and Intel in its first independent benchmarks

NVIDIA’s Vera CPU has posted its first independent benchmarks, with Phoronix showing the 88-core Arm processor delivering the best performance ever seen from an Arm chip, including a 10% advantage over AMD’s high-frequency EPYC 9575F on a geometric mean basis
Vera uses 88 custom Olympus cores built on Armv9.2-A, supporting 176 threads through NVIDIA’s Spatial Multithreading. Unlike Grace, which used off-the-shelf Arm Neoverse cores, Vera is a ground-up custom NVIDIA design that the company claims delivers roughly double Grace’s performance
The key advantage appears to be memory bandwidth. Vera pairs with LPDDR5X through SOCAMM2 modules, delivering up to 1.2 TB/s, roughly three times the per-core memory bandwidth of competing x86 processors
Redpanda’s third-party testing also showed Vera delivering 5.5x lower latency than AMD EPYC Turin and 2.5x faster performance than Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids in Kafka-compatible streaming workloads, along with 73% higher throughput in ring-shuffle SQL tests