Nvidia claims its new Vera ARM CPU is 80% faster than leading x86 CPUs

Nvidia just announced the RTX Spark – this is AI server tech trickling down to the consumer space with a Grace CPU (20 cores), a Blackwell GPU (6,144 CUDA cores) and 128GB of LPDDR5X. Now here’s what’s next for servers – and maybe one day consumer devices too.

The new Vera CPU is the CPU half of the Vera Rubin platform – the other being the Rubin GPU. Vera promises a 1.8x average speedup over “leading x86 CPUs” (Nvidia didn’t name them explicitly).

Vera is massive – it has 88 Olympus cores (based on the ARM instruction set) with Spatial Multithreading for 176 threads per socket. The…