NVIDIA releases Vera CPU, targeting agent throughput and energy efficiency
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NVIDIA has released the Vera CPU, aimed at AI agent workloads. NVIDIA claims that in a comparison of 100-megawatt data centers, a single Vera outperforms both the fastest x86 CPU and the most energy-efficient x86 CPU, combining agent performance and per-watt capacity. Perplexity plans to deploy Vera in an upcoming production system. The above performance comparison is NVIDIA's claim; the report does not provide third-party verification results.
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- NVIDIA NewsroomVera Delivers the Best of Both Worlds: Highest Throughput and Fastest Agents
NVIDIA says its Vera CPU outperforms both the fastest and the most energy-efficient x86 CPUs in a 100-megawatt data center comparison, delivering 1.6x more agents per watt versus the fastest x86 CPU and 2x faster agent speed with leading energy efficiency versus the most energy-efficient x86 CPU. Early adopters report production-style gains, including Perplexity running agentic coding tasks 1.5x faster, DeepInfra reaching up to 2.2x the speed of the best x86 processor on agentic orchestration, and ClickHouse scaling near-linearly across 176 cores on its standard binary. Daytona brought 1,000 agent sandboxes online in 10.8 seconds versus 88.4 seconds with x86, and Modal achieved up to 2x sandbox throughput per core versus comparable x86 hardware.
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