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This week is quickly shaping up to be a busy week in the world of server hardware. Later this week earnings season for the industry will kick off, starting, as always with Intel. Meanwhile AMD’s annual enterprise an AI event, Advancing AI, is taking place in San Francisco mid-week.
But before either of those chip vendors get to present, the first salvo for this week comes from NVIDIA. This morning the company is releasing a significant amount of new technical information on its upcoming Vera CPUs and Rubin GPUs, offering the deepest look yet into the products since they were “launched” at the start of this year.
Among NVIDIA’s publications this morning includes a long-awaited tech blog on the GPU architecture and additional details on the NVLink interface that will be connecting those GPUs (and CPUs) together. But the most interesting disclosure is arguably around Vera, NVIDIA’s new CPU, which is getting a full architectural whitepaper release. Though it does not answer all of our questions about the chip or the Olympus CPU cores inside, it is our best look yet at NVIDIA’s first custom CPU core design in years.
At the same time, today’s revelations come with some fresh performance figures for Vera, most notably performance benchmarks on the industry-standard SPEC CPU 2026 benchmark suite. The performance figures certainly paint a vivid picture that outlines just what aspects of CPU design that NVIDIA has focused on. Though at the same time the benchmarks give us our first real look at the CPU’s overall performance – and it is not all rosy for NVIDIA. But before we get too far ahead of ourselves here, let’s take a quick look at the new architectural details around Vera.
NVIDIA Vera Exposed: Olympus CPU Architecture
Back around the time of GTC 2026 we had a chance to dig a bit deeper into NVIDIA’s Vera CPU, which in many respects was the star of the show for NVIDIA. While the company makes the bulk of its fortune off of GPUs in various forms, NVIDIA is making a hard press to expand its reach into the server CPU market with Vera. While the chip will not be going toe-to-toe with the links of Intel’s Xeon or AMD’s EPYC lineups across their full footprints, NVIDIA wants to elevate Vera towards being a chip that is used for many kinds of servers, and not just as a CPU that is used to drive their GPUs, as was the case with Grace.
Of the full Vera Rubin product stack, this makes Vera the most interesting development at NVIDIA. Not only is it their first custom CPU architecture in many years, but it means that NVIDIA is diving headfirst into a far more competitive market than GPUs or even networking gear (both markets where NVIDIA is now the world’s largest vendor). Server CPUs, by comparison, is a very large and very lucrative market where NVIDIA is still trying to climb the ladder. The company is hardly a newcomer to producing CPUs, but it is going to be the hardest market to grow; between Intel, AMD, and a slew of...