NVIDIA "Vera" CPU Benchmarked: Beating Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC in Select Workloads (opens in new tab)

Phoronix conducted an exclusive round of testing with NVIDIA's latest "Vera" CPU, showcasing early benchmarks that highlight NVIDIA's advancements in custom CPU design. The initial results indicate that this Arm-based CPU platform is powerful enough to outperform the latest Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC models in the data center sector. The "Vera" CPU is equipped with 88 custom Armv9.2 "Olympus" cores, featuring 176 threads through physical resource partitioning. These custom cores support native F...