NVIDIA Vera CPU Benchmarks: Olympus Cores Delivering The Best Performance Ever Seen On ARM
Starting things out were some code compilation benchmarks given it being a Phoronix reader favorite area. NVIDIA's Grace CPU was the slowest of the tested processors while with NVIDIA Vera it jumped out to being nearly the same performance as AMD's flagship 5.0GHz high frequency AMD EPYC 9575F processor(s) with the Gem5 compilation benchmark in a dual socket configuration. NVIDIA Vera was the fastest of the single socket CPUs tested.
On a performance-per-core basis for Gem5 compilation, the Vera CPU was between the EPYC 9575F and 9475F high frequency processors.
For compiling the Godot game engine on NVIDIA Vera continued to provide significant time savings over Grace and continued competing with AMD's high frequency Turin processors.
The Node.js compilation performance was the most shocking with compiling the large codebase in less than half the time it took NVIDIA Grace. Vera was tied with the 5.0GHz EPYC 9575F for the best per-core compilation performance in Node.js
Fascinatingly, when building a x86_64 default configuration across all tested processors (cross-compiling on the ARM64 CPUs to x86_64), NVIDIA Vera was the fastest CPU building a default x86_64 kernel with a time of just 20 seconds.
For an allmodconfig x86_64 kernel build of all possible modules, NVIDIA Vera came just behind the dual socket AMD EPYC 9575F and 9755 processors with their higher numbers of cores/threads. Vera was the fastest of the tested single socket solutions.
But if looking at the build performance on a per-core basis, NVIDIA Vera with its Olympus cores were delivering the fastest build times.