NVIDIA Vera ARM CPU with Olympus Cores Posts Early Benchmark Wins for ARM Data Centers
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NVIDIA’s Vera data-center CPU, built around its in-house Olympus cores, shows unprecedented ARM performance in early Linux benchmarks with 88 cores (176 threads via spatial multithreading), Armv9.2 ISA, up to 1.2TB/s memory bandwidth, PCIe Gen 6 and CXL 3.1. It carries a peak 450W TDP (roughly 50W+ under LPDDR5X usage) and benefits from solid upstream Linux support (Kernel 6.18+ on Ubuntu 24.04 base, GCC 16.1+/LLVM 21+ for Olympus). NVIDIA limited the initial tests to relevant AI/data-center workloads and is still tuning power management, so the results are promising but not fully representative of a production, enclosed-server environment yet.
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