Anyone know how this compares to Apple’s M5 chips? Or is that comparison apples to oranges.
Grace GB10, Vera's predecessor, had a single core performance comparable to M3 so I guess we can expect at least M4 level performance now.
Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI
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#22> Purpose-Built for Agentic AI From the "fridge purpose-built for storing only yellow tomatoes" and "car only built for people whose last name contains the letter W" series. When can this insanity end? It is a completely normal garden-variety ARM SoC, it'll run Linux, same as every other ARM SoC does. It is as related to "Agentic $whatever" as your toaster is related to it
> It is as related to "Agentic $whatever" as your toaster is related to it
These things have hardware FP8 support, and a 1.8TB/s full mesh interconnect between CPUs and GPUs. We can argue about the "agentic" bit, but those are features that don't really matter for any workload other than AI.
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#23So does this cut out Intel/x86 from all the massive new datacenter buildouts entirely? They've already lost Apple as a customer and are not competitive in the consumer space. I don't see how they can realistically grow at all with x86.
Even Apple hardware looks inexpensive compared to Nvidia's huge premium. And never mind the order backlog. x86 and Apple already sell CPUs with integrated memory and high bandwidth interconnects. And I bet eventually Intel's beancounter board will wake up and allow engineering to make one, too. But competition is good for the market.
Apple went from a high-end PC to a low-end AI provider due to blocking Nvidia on their platform.
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#24> Purpose-Built for Agentic AI From the "fridge purpose-built for storing only yellow tomatoes" and "car only built for people whose last name contains the letter W" series. When can this insanity end? It is a completely normal garden-variety ARM SoC, it'll run Linux, same as every other ARM SoC does. It is as related to "Agentic $whatever" as your toaster is related to it
The power and importance of marketing is deeply underappreciated by us technical types.
And yet more than a little Gavin Belson "Box III" vibes here. Fortunately, no signature edition.
Re: Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI
#25Anyone know how this compares to Apple’s M5 chips? Or is that comparison apples to oranges.
Features like hardware FP8 support definitely make it apples-to-oranges.
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#26Say what you want about NVIDIA (to me they are just doing what every company would do in their place), but they create engineering marvels.
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#27I'm assuming this is for tool call and orchestration. I didn't know we needed higher exploitable parallelism from the hardware, we had software bottlenecks (you're not running 10,000 agents concurrently or downstream tool calls) Can someone explain what is Vera CPU doing that a traditional CPU doesn't?
> you're not running 10,000 agents concurrently or downstream tool calls
Cursor seem to be doing exactly that though
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#28So does this cut out Intel/x86 from all the massive new datacenter buildouts entirely? They've already lost Apple as a customer and are not competitive in the consumer space. I don't see how they can realistically grow at all with x86.
>are not competitive in the consumer space
AFAIK they still dominate on clock rate, which I was surprised to see when doing some back of the envelope calculations regarding core counts.
I felt my 8 core i9 9900K was inadequate, so shopped around for something AMD, and IIRC the core multiplier of the chip I found was dominated by the clock rate multiplier so it’s possible that at full utilization my i9 is still towards the best I can get at the price.
Not sure if I’m the typical consumer in this case however.
Re: Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI
#29> Purpose-Built for Agentic AI From the "fridge purpose-built for storing only yellow tomatoes" and "car only built for people whose last name contains the letter W" series. When can this insanity end? It is a completely normal garden-variety ARM SoC, it'll run Linux, same as every other ARM SoC does. It is as related to "Agentic $whatever" as your toaster is related to it
> It is as related to "Agentic $whatever" as your toaster is related to it These things have hardware FP8 support, and a 1.8TB/s full mesh interconnect between CPUs and GPUs. We can argue about the "agentic" bit, but those are features that don't really matter for any workload other than AI.
Would cloud gaming platforms benefit from the interconnect?
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#30Am I crazy, or is Jensen's statement a copy-paste from ChatGPT?
(Could be both)