NVIDIA Vera CPU Beats Intel Xeon 6 by 48% in Database Benchmark With Fewer Cores

NVIDIA's 88-core Vera CPU was tested in the TPC-H benchmark on DuckDB, outperforming Intel's 96-core Xeon 6 by 46-48% in query throughput. Both systems ran with 768 GB of memory, 3 TB+ NVMe storage and Ubuntu 26.04.

• 88-core Vera beats 96-core Xeon 6 by 46-48% in TPC-H
• Both systems: 768 GB RAM, 3 TB+ NVMe, Ubuntu 26.04
• DuckDB 2.0.0-Alpha adds 24-26% boost on both chips
• Vera uses Spatial Multi-Threading and LPDDR5x memory