They should've called it Vega: https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/VEGA
Perhaps, but consider the existence of the AMD Vega GPU line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_RX_Vega_series
Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI
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#72Say 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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#73Does this mean their gaming GPUs are becoming less in demand, and therefore cheaper/more available again?
Absolutely not, unfortunately.
The problem is not that gaming GPUs are in demand, it’s that selling silicon to AI center buildouts is so absurdly profitable right now they just aren’t making many gaming GPUs.
If you can only get so many mm^2 of dies from TSMC, might as well make 50x selling to AI providers.
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#74Agentic AI CPU? No.
It’s a CPU designed for an AI cluster. Their last CPU Grace was the same thing and no one called it agentic.
Vera now just has more performance/more bandwidth. It’s cool, I’d like to have one of these clusters, but this is not new.
It’s marketed as agentic AI because that’s fashionable in 2026.
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Even with those advantages, Apple can't even sell datacenter hardware to themselves: https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/02/some-apple-ai-servers-are-rep...
"And as the initial crop of Apple Intelligence features hasn’t been used as much as Apple expected" Nah, as so-called "analysts" expected. The no-effort crybabies deriding Apple for being "behind on AI" have turned out to be, shocker of shockers, wrong. Anyone who even put a few minutes of thought into Apple's business realized that it (and its customers) didn't stand to benefit much from "AI." It's sad that Apple hu…
Apple wouldn't have built the server capacity if they thought it wouldn't be used. It's indeed their own analysis.
In any case, that article is also looking forward to next-gen models like the sparse Gemini model Google trained for Siri. Apple Silicon simply isn't powerful enough to compete for that inference.
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#79Agentic AI CPU? No. It’s a CPU designed for an AI cluster. Their last CPU Grace was the same thing and no one called it agentic. Vera now just has more performance/more bandwidth. It’s cool, I’d like to have one of these clusters, but this is not new. It’s marketed as agentic AI because that’s fashionable in 2026.
They significantly lowered latency compared to EPYC/Xeon, which is critical for streaming agents (e.g. text/audio/video agents).
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Your 9900k at 5ghz does work slower than a Ryzen 9800X3D at 5ghz. A lot slower (1700 single core geekbench vs 3300, and just about any benchmark will tell the same story). Clock speed alone doesn't mean anything.
From the newegg listing: >8 Cores and 16 processing threads, based on AMD "Zen 5" architecture which is the same thread geometry as my 9900K. My main concerns at the time were: 1. More cores for running large workloads on k8s since I had just upgraded to 128G RAM 2. More thread level parallelism for my C++ code Naively I thought that, ceteris paribus and assuming good L1 cache utilization, having more physical cores…
Comparing CPUs by clock speed doesn’t work. New CPUs are do more work per clock cycle.
A 9800X3D is twice as fast as your 9900K in benchmarks like GeekBench, despite having similar clock speed and the same core count.
If you could downclock the AMD part to 2.5GHz as an experiment it would still beat your 5GHz 9900K.