NVIDIA’s inaugural fully self-developed CPU, dubbed Vera, has recently been put through its paces in benchmark testing conducted by the independent tech media entity, Phoronix. The test results reveal that, under specific workloads outlined by NVIDIA, Vera’s performance outstrips nearly all processors on the market, whether they are based on x86 or ARM architectures. In terms of overall performance, Vera registers a 63% improvement over its predecessor, the 72-core Grace processor, a 10% enhancement compared to AMD’s 64-core EPYC 9575F, and a substantial 55% leap ahead of Intel’s 128-core Xeon 6980P. Built upon the Armv9.2 instruction set, Vera boasts 88 self-developed Olympus cores, supports 176 threads, and delivers a memory bandwidth of 1.2TB/s. It is tailored specifically for agent AI and reinforcement learning applications, with the initial batch already dispatched to firms such as Anthropic and OpenAI.