NVIDIA Vera CPU Benchmarks: Olympus Cores Delivering The Best Performance Ever Seen On ARM
For Stream memory benchmarks, NVIDIA okay'ed the plain upstream Stream code where as some vendors prefer their own customized versions or built with their own compiler toolchains. With upstream Stream and all built using GCC, NVIDIA Vera shows its impressive memory bandwidth capabilities.
NVIDIA Vera with its LPDDR5X memory was showing its incredible advantage in memory performance over current Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC processors. It will be interesting to see how this compares to EPYC Venice and Xeon Diamond Rapids with going to DDR6 memory rather than DDR5.
7-Zip is a great multi-threaded CPU benchmark and with Vera its performance came in right where expected for being an 88 core part. Fascinatingly the NVIDIA Vera 88-core CPU was outperforming the 128-core Xeon 6980P processor!
If looking at the per-core performance for these different processors, NVIDIA Vera slightly edged past the 5.0GHz AMD EPYC 9575F for offering the best 7-Zip performance per core. Quite a feat! The difference from Grace to Vera was consistently exceeding my expectations for gen-on-gen performance we typically see for processors.
When looking at the 7-Zip decompression performance per core, NVIDIA Vera simply dominated. Granted it will be interesting to see where EPYC Venice aligns in a few months but for now Vera was leading here. It's too bad though we weren't able to look at the CPU power metrics for today's testing.