NVIDIA published new results for Vera, its CPU built for agent workloads, on November 5. In a 100-megawatt data-center comparison, NVIDIA says a single Vera — 88 custom Olympus cores with 176 threads — delivers 1.6x more agents per watt than the fastest x86 CPU and 2x faster agent speed than the most energy-efficient x86 CPU, arguing that agents bottleneck on ordinary CPU work (compiling, sandboxing, database calls) between GPU reasoning steps.

Partner production-style tests fill out the post: Perplexity ran agentic coding tasks 1.5x faster and plans to deploy Vera in production; DeepInfra measured up to 2.2x speed on its agent orchestration workload; Daytona brought 1,000 agent sandboxes online in 10.8 seconds against 88.4 seconds on its x86 comparison and completed 12.7 jobs per second at 2,000 concurrent sandboxes; ClickHouse scaled near-linearly across 176 cores with its standard binary and topped the ClickBench leaderboard.

All of these figures are vendor- or partner-reported inside NVIDIA's chosen framing, against baselines NVIDIA picked. Independent end-to-end comparisons on real workloads are still to come.