ARM Linux Server Performance Up More Than 7x Geo Mean In 8 Years, As Much As 15x With NVIDIA Vera CPU

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 5 June 2026 at 09:44 AM EDT. Page 2 of 6. 12 Comments.
DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: Jython. 1 x NVIDIA Vera was the fastest.
DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: Eclipse. 1 x NVIDIA Vera was the fastest.
DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: GraphChi. 1 x NVIDIA Vera was the fastest.

Right from the start we see the immediate shock of how far ARM cores have evolved over the past eight years from Ampere's Skylark cores with eMAG to now the NVIDIA Olympus cores in Vera. For OpenJDK Java benchmarks there was more than a 6x improvement!

DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: Apache Tomcat. 1 x NVIDIA Vera was the fastest.
DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: Batik SVG Toolkit. 1 x NVIDIA Vera was the fastest.
DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: FOP Print Formatter. 1 x NVIDIA Vera was the fastest.
DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: Apache Lucene Search Index. 1 x NVIDIA Vera was the fastest.

It's also worth pointing out many of these Java benchmarks are single-threaded or lightly-threaded. If fully leveraging the NVIDIA Vera CPU core with its 88 cores / 176 threads is much more potential as shown in some of the multi-threaded benchmarks latter.

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