How NVIDIA GB10 CPU Performance Compares To Vera

Since delivering NVIDIA Vera CPU benchmarks one month ago and follow-ups like how the ARM Linux server performance has evolved in 8 years or how Vera compares to Ampere Altra that is still quite common in the marketplace, another frequent discussion point and inquiry is about the performance of NVIDIA Vera relative to NVIDIA's GB10 chip. For those curious about the per-core performance and the like, here are some benchmarks of the GB10 up against those initial Vera results.

While Vera makes use of NVIDIA's in-house Olympus CPU custom cores, the NVIDIA GB10 relies upon ten Cortex-X925 cores and ten Cortex-A725 cores compared to 88 Olympus cores with 176 threads for Vera. With GB10 is 128GB of LPDDR5x memory and the SoC is rated for 140W, compared to 450W with Vera. Different chips designed for different purposes, but curiosity prevails in quantifying the per-core performance difference.

In this article are the relevant Vera CPU benchmarks previously published compared to NVIDIA GB10 with the same workloads and similar Ubuntu software environment with the Linux 6.17 kernel. These GB10 benchmarks were all conducted using the Dell Pro Max GB10.

The tests are looking at the single threaded performance, the multi-threaded performance, and the per-core multi-threaded performance for reference purposes. Due to not being able to record the CPU power consumption numbers during the original Vera benchmarking, there are no power compares for this round of testing. The data is mainly intended for reference purposes if you are wondering how the GB10 desktop/workstation compares in raw throughput to the high-end Vera server chip or just curious about it on a per-core basis of Olympus against ARM Cortex IP.