NVIDIA's Vera CPU is built for AI agents — and Perplexity says it's 1.5x faster

OFFICIAL Written by GPN · Nov 7, 2026, 3:00 PM ET · NVIDIA Vera · Tech

NVIDIA's Vera is a CPU built for AI agents, promising fast agent performance and high capacity per watt in a single chip — and the first users to try it are reporting real speedups.

NVIDIA's numbers

In a 100-megawatt data center comparison, NVIDIA found a single Vera CPU performs better than both the fastest x86 CPU and the most energy-efficient x86 CPU. Vera delivers 1.6x more agents per watt than the fastest x86 CPU, and 2x faster agent speed with leading energy efficiency compared with the most energy-efficient x86 CPU.

Early users

Perplexity ran agentic coding tasks 1.5x faster with Vera than on traditional CPUs and plans to deploy Vera in an upcoming production system. DeepInfra delivered up to 2.2x the speed of the best x86 processor on agentic orchestration for its production agent workload, the fastest of the four architectures it tested.

ClickHouse's standard binary, with no Vera-specific tuning, scaled near-linearly across 176 cores and topped the ClickBench hardware leaderboard. DuckDB achieved about 1.5x the median TPC-H SF1000 performance of an Intel Xeon 6 baseline.

Daytona brought 1,000 agent sandboxes online in 10.8 seconds with Vera versus 88.4 seconds with x86, and hit 12.7 completed jobs per second at 2,000 concurrent sandboxes. Modal achieved up to 2x sandbox throughput per core versus comparable x86 hardware, with gains growing under heavy load.

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NVIDIA's Vera CPU is built for AI agents — and Perplexity says it's 1.5x faster

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