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Initial benchmark results published by Phoronix today show that the NVIDIA Vera CPU meets this need
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The Vera CPU delivers the throughput AI factories need while optimizing platform power.
Key facts
- In Phoronix STREAM TRIAD testing, Vera sustained 90% of its peak memory bandwidth, achieving the highest percentage of rated peak bandwidth of any CPU tested by Phoronix, and delivered over 4x
- On a [geometric] mean basis, the NVIDIA Vera delivered 10% better performance than the AMD EPYC 9575F 5.0 GHz high frequency processor,” Larabel wrote
- Vera led the tested CPU field, delivering a 1.5x overall performance advantage compared with a latest-generation 128-core x86 processor
- Vera delivered 2x faster Linux kernel compilation on a per-core basis compared with a 128-core processor
Summary
The shift to agentic AI creates a new CPU requirement for the AI factory: fast cores, massive memory bandwidth and the ability to sustain high performance when all cores are active. Initial benchmark results published by Phoronix today show that the NVIDIA Vera CPU meets this need. Vera’s monolithic die, wide cores, advanced branch prediction and the second-generation NVIDIA Scalable Coherency Fabric help Vera keep data moving across all 88 cores. Phoronix’s testing of a single-socket Vera CPU, rated at 450-watt thermal design power with less than 30 watts of memory power, showed that it delivers outstanding performance within that power profile, along with generational gains across a broad array of workloads spanning code compilation, file compression, video transcoding, Python, Java and database management.