NVIDIA Vera CPU and Vera Rubin Platform Specifications
NVIDIA has announced the Vera Rubin platform and its first custom data center processor, the Vera CPU, designed to accelerate agentic AI and scientific computing workloads. The platform integrates GPU, CPU, and networking components into rack-scale systems that claim significant performance gains over traditional x86 architectures.
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The NVIDIA Vera CPU features 88 custom-designed 'Olympus' cores and exposes 176 threads via Spatial Multithreading (SMT-X).
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The Vera CPU supports up to 1.5 TB of LPDDR5X memory capacity and delivers up to 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth.
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NVIDIA claims the Vera CPU delivers 1.8x faster task completion than x86 CPUs for agentic AI, reinforcement learning, and data processing.
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The Vera CPU and Rubin GPU are connected via NVLink-C2C, providing 1.8 TB/s of bidirectional bandwidth.
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The flagship Vera Rubin NVL72 rack integrates 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs into a unified liquid-cooled system.
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The Vera Rubin platform includes seven integrated chips: Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, NVLink 6 Switch, ConnectX-9 SuperNIC, BlueField-4 DPU, Spectrum-6 Ethernet switch, and Groq 3 LPU.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceXAI are among the first customers confirmed to deploy the Vera CPU and Vera Rubin architecture.
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Unverified reports suggest a potential memory specification change for Vera CPUs from 1.5 TB (192 GB modules) to 768 GB (96 GB modules).
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The Vera Rubin VR200 GPU provides 50 petaflops of FP4 compute performance, representing a 3.3-fold increase over the Blackwell B300 GPU.
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The Vera CPU operates with a configurable Thermal Design Power (TDP) ranging from 250W to 450W.
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Vera Rubin systems for scientific computing support native FP64 performance at 5 petaflops per rack.
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The Vera CPU is scheduled to begin volume shipping in the third quarter of 2026.