NVIDIA’s 72-Core Grace “ARM” CPU Is Almost As Fast As 96-Core AMD Threadripper 7995WX Chip In Geekbench

NVIDIA's Grace CPU has appeared within the Geekbench benchmark, showcasing some strong multi-threaded performance against Intel & AMD offerings.

NVIDIA Grace "ARM" CPU Combats x86 Workstation Heavy-Weights With Strong Multi-Threaded Performance

NVIDIA's Grace CPU was designed to meet the high-performance computing requirements for the server and data center ecosystems. The chip has been deployed in NVIDIA's GH200 Superchip that offers the fastest AI performance at the moment and will also be used to power the next-gen B200 solutions such as the GB200 which is going to feature two Blackwell chips alongside a single Grace CPU.

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Talking about specifications, the NVIDIA Grace CPU is based on the ARM architecture and features a total of 72 Arm Neoverse N2 cores. The CPU features LPDDR5x memory on the motherboard and there are two distinct platforms, the Grace Superchip with two of these Grace CPUs for a total of 144 cores, and the Grace Hopper Superchip with a 72-core Grace CPU and the Hopper H200 GPU. Each chip features 117 MB of L3 cache, 68 PCIe Gen5 lanes, and is built on the TSMC 4N process node.

Some of the main highlights of Grace include:

• High-performance CPU for HPC and cloud computing
• Super chip design with up to 144 Arm v9 CPU cores
• World’s first LPDDR5x with ECC Memory, 1TB/s total bandwidth
• SPECrate2017_int_base over 740 (estimated)
• 900 GB/s coherent interface, 7X faster than PCIe Gen 5
• 2X the packaging density of DIMM-based solutions
• 2X the performance per watt of today’s leading CPU
• Runs all NVIDIA software stacks and platforms, including RTX, HPC, AI, and Omniverse

NVIDIA has previously shared some impressive performance and efficiency figures for its Grace CPU against Intel's Sapphire Rapids and AMD's Genoa offerings but this time, we are looking at the Geekbench performance of this server-oriented chip against some