Nvidia Publishes Vera CPU SPEC CPU 2026 Benchmarks and Olympus Architecture White Paper

What happened

Nvidia released a detailed architecture white paper for its Vera data center CPU: custom Olympus cores with 10-wide instruction decoder, 88 cores, 164MB shared L3 cache, and LPDDR5X memory at 1.2 TB/s.

Context and impact

Vera CPU is designed for agentic AI workloads - prioritizing single-thread performance and memory bandwidth over raw core count. First SPEC CPU 2026 results show a 3% lead over AMD EPYC 9755 with fewer threads.

Details

• Olympus core: 10-wide instruction decoder, high-IPC design
• 88 cores, 164MB shared L3 cache
• LPDDR5X: 1.2 TB/s memory bandwidth
• SPEC CPU 2026 int rate (dual-socket): Vera 925 vs. EPYC 9755 898 - +3% with fewer threads
• Prioritizes single-thread performance and bandwidth for agentic AI inference