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 4 of 6. 12 Comments.
LuaJIT benchmark with settings of Test: Composite. 1 x NVIDIA Vera was the fastest.
LuaJIT benchmark with settings of Test: Fast Fourier Transform. 1 x NVIDIA Vera was the fastest.
LuaJIT benchmark with settings of Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply. 1 x NVIDIA Vera was the fastest.

LuaJIT was also approaching 8x faster over 8 years of ARM server cores.

SVT-AV1 benchmark with settings of Encoder Mode: Preset 5, Input: Bosphorus 4K. 1 x NVIDIA Vera was the fastest.
SVT-AV1 benchmark with settings of Encoder Mode: Preset 8, Input: Bosphorus 4K. 1 x NVIDIA Vera was the fastest.

In the case of SVT-AV1 CPU-based AV1 video encoding, it was more than 13x!

SVT-AV1 benchmark with settings of Encoder Mode: Preset 13, Input: Bosphorus 4K. 1 x NVIDIA Vera was the fastest.
SVT-AV1 benchmark with settings of Encoder Mode: Preset 3, Input: Beauty 4K 10-bit. 1 x NVIDIA Vera was the fastest.
SVT-AV1 benchmark with settings of Encoder Mode: Preset 5, Input: Beauty 4K 10-bit. 1 x NVIDIA Vera was the fastest.
SVT-AV1 benchmark with settings of Encoder Mode: Preset 8, Input: Beauty 4K 10-bit. 1 x NVIDIA Vera was the fastest.
SVT-AV1 benchmark with settings of Encoder Mode: Preset 13, Input: Beauty 4K 10-bit. 1 x NVIDIA Vera was the fastest.

Quite fascinating to quantify how far the ARM server CPU performance has evolved over the past eight years.

7-Zip Compression benchmark with settings of Test: Compression Rating. 1 x NVIDIA Vera was the fastest.
7-Zip Compression benchmark with settings of Test: Decompression Rating. 1 x NVIDIA Vera was the fastest.

The multi-threaded 7-Zip compression benchmark showed NVIDIA Vera performing at 14.8x the speed of Ampere's first-generation ARM server processor.

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