NVIDIA Vera CPU
Type: Architecture Tags: NVIDIA, Vera CPU, Arm, NVLink-C2C, Vera Rubin, data center CPU, AI factory Related: NVIDIA-Vera-Rubin, NVIDIA-Data-Center-CPUs, NVIDIA-Grace-CPU, NVLink, NVIDIA-HGX, NVIDIA-DGX-SuperPOD Sources: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/technologies/rubin/, https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-vera-rubin-platform Last Updated: 2026-04-29
Summary
NVIDIA Vera CPU is the custom Arm CPU in the Vera Rubin platform. NVIDIA lists Vera as an 88-core CPU designed to connect to Rubin GPUs with high-bandwidth NVLink-C2C links for AI factory systems such as Vera Rubin NVL144 and HGX Rubin NVL8.
Detail
Purpose
Vera continues NVIDIA’s CPU strategy after Grace: build CPUs that are co-designed with NVIDIA GPUs, memory systems, and NVLink rather than treating the CPU as a generic host processor. In Vera Rubin systems, the CPU handles orchestration, data movement, and CPU-side work close to a large GPU memory and interconnect domain.
Current public details
- 88 custom Arm cores in current NVIDIA Vera Rubin materials.
- High-bandwidth CPU-to-GPU connectivity through NVLink-C2C.
- Part of Vera Rubin NVL144 and HGX Rubin NVL8 platform designs.
- Successor direction to NVIDIA-Grace-CPU in NVIDIA data center CPU systems.
NVIDIA context
Vera should be tracked in the wiki as part of NVIDIA-Data-Center-CPUs and NVIDIA-Vera-Rubin, not as a general Arm CPU. It is specifically relevant to AI factory systems where CPUs, GPUs, NVLink, memory, networking, and software are co-designed.
Connections
- NVIDIA-Vera-Rubin - Vera CPU is the CPU component of the Vera Rubin platform.
- NVIDIA-Data-Center-CPUs - umbrella page for NVIDIA data center CPU documentation and product direction.
- NVIDIA-Grace-CPU - predecessor NVIDIA data center CPU architecture.
- NVLink - NVLink-C2C is the CPU-to-GPU coherency path.
- NVIDIA-HGX - HGX Rubin NVL8 uses Vera CPU pairing in NVIDIA’s public HGX platform direction.
- NVIDIA-DGX-SuperPOD - rack-scale AI factory systems depend on CPU/GPU co-design.
Source Excerpts
- NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin materials describe Vera as a custom Arm CPU with 88 cores and NVLink-C2C connectivity for Rubin GPU platforms.