NVIDIA's Vera data center CPU, featuring in-house "Olympus" Arm-based cores, has demonstrated performance competitive with Intel/AMD x86-64 CPUs in early benchmarks. Designed for agentic AI and modern data center workloads, Vera will be found with NVIDIA NVL72 Vera Rubin and standalone for CPU racks, with initial products shipping in the second half of the year. The CPU boasts 88 Olympus cores and supports FP8 precision, 176 threads via spatial multi-threading, and LPDDR5X memory.
Vera’s early benchmark showing competitiveness with Intel and AMD x86-64 CPUs matters because NVIDIA is signaling a server CPU that can already run on mainstream Linux stacks, not a bespoke software island. The article also shows NVIDIA pushing support upstream early: GCC 16.1+ and LLVM Clang 21+ already recognize Olympus, and Linux 7.1+ includes the key driver support. What to watch next is the production chassis phase later in 2026, when power and frequency data can be measured in enclosed server systems.
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