NVIDIA Vera CPU Benchmarks: Olympus Cores Delivering The Best Performance Ever Seen On ARM

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 26 May 2026 at 10:00 AM EDT. Page 5 of 11. 74 Comments.
SVT-AV1 benchmark with settings of Performance Per Thread, Encoder Mode: Preset 5, Input: Bosphorus 4K. NVIDIA Grace was the fastest.
SVT-AV1 benchmark with settings of Performance Per Thread, Encoder Mode: Preset 8, Input: Bosphorus 4K. NVIDIA Grace was the fastest.

For those interested in video encoding/transcoding with NVIDIA Vera CPU servers, Vera saw excellent generational gains with the popular open-source SVT-AV1 encoder. Even Grace tended to be faster than the Intel Xeon 6980P while now Vera was running neck-and-neck with the AMD EPYC 9005 series processors tested.

SVT-AV1 benchmark with settings of Performance Per Thread, Encoder Mode: Preset 13, Input: Bosphorus 4K. NVIDIA Grace was the fastest.
SVT-AV1 benchmark with settings of Performance Per Thread, Encoder Mode: Preset 3, Input: Beauty 4K 10-bit. NVIDIA Grace was the fastest.
SVT-AV1 benchmark with settings of Performance Per Thread, Encoder Mode: Preset 5, Input: Beauty 4K 10-bit. NVIDIA Grace was the fastest.

When turning to 4K 10-bit video content with SVT-AV1, NVIDIA Vera began outperforming the EPYC Zen 5 server processors tested -- even the high frequency SKUs topping out at 5.0GHz.

SVT-AV1 benchmark with settings of Performance Per Thread, Encoder Mode: Preset 8, Input: Beauty 4K 10-bit. NVIDIA Grace was the fastest.
SVT-AV1 benchmark with settings of Performance Per Thread, Encoder Mode: Preset 13, Input: Beauty 4K 10-bit. NVIDIA Grace was the fastest.

It's very impressive the generational gains made from Grace to Vera and easily the most competitive ARM64 processor I have tested.

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