Tom's Hardware benchmarks Nvidia Vera CPU against AMD Turin and Intel Granite Rapids-AP
Tom's Hardware tested Nvidia's new 88-core Vera CPU, built on the custom Olympus core and Armv9.2-A architecture, against AMD EPYC 9755 and 9965 Turin chips and Intel Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids-AP in a dual-socket configuration. Vera leads in SPEC CPU 2026 intrate by 1.5% over the EPYC 9755 despite having 352 threads versus AMD's 512, and shows a 12% advantage in GCC compilation. It delivers up…
Key points
- Memory bandwidth reaches 1.2 TB/s, more than double AMD Turin's per-core bandwidth
- Python performance leads by 4%, critical for current agentic AI frameworks
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Benchmarking Nvidia’s Vera CPU for the data center — standalone Vera tested against Granite Rapids-AP and EPYC Turin
Tom's Hardware · 30 October 2026
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