A dual-socket Nvidia Vera system delivered strong results in several data-intensive computing workloads, though it did not lead every benchmark.
Phoronix tested a two-CPU Vera system with a combined 176 cores and 352 threads. It was compared with dual-socket systems based on AMD’s Epyc 9575F and Epyc 9755, as well as a pair of Intel Xeon 6980P processors from the Granite Rapids family.
Vera’s clearest advantage appeared in workloads sensitive to memory bandwidth, including OpenFOAM CFD and WRF. The system uses LPDDR5x memory rated at 9,600 MT/s. The AMD test platform used DDR5-6400, while Intel’s system used MRDIMM-8800. Phoronix reported that Vera beat the Xeon 6980P and Epyc 9575F in some tests, but trailed the higher-core-count Epyc 9755 in certain measurements.
The Olympus cores in Vera ran at 3.2–3.3 GHz, compared with 3.9–5.0 GHz for the x86 competitors. The Nvidia pair averaged 842 watts of power consumption and peaked at 1,044 watts. Those figures were comparable to the Epyc 9755 system and below the Intel configuration’s readings.