NVIDIA has released storage benchmark results for its Vera CPU, saying the NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX storage processor delivered higher performance than a comparison x86 CPU across several storage-heavy tasks tied to AI-native infrastructure. According to the company, the strongest gain came in CRC32C integrity checking, where performance reached up to 3.67x that of the x86 comparison system. Reed-Solomon data recovery improved by up to 3.26x, compression by up to 3.29x, decompression by up to 1.72x, and a combined compression-plus-encryption storage pipeline by up to 3.21x. NVIDIA also reported gains of up to 1.43x for AES-128 encryption and 1.29x for AES-128 decryption. The company said the benchmarks reflect a shift in AI infrastructure as AI agents handle knowledge retrieval, tool use, long-term memory management, and larger context windows. In that setting, storage is no longer limited to basic reads and writes, but becomes part of the inference path itself, with encryption, compression, validation, and recovery tasks adding pressure to CPUs. NVIDIA said Vera is designed to raise throughput per unit of CPU resource so storage systems can support more AI agent workloads without materially increasing infrastructure costs.

NVIDIA has released new benchmark results for its Vera BlueField-4 STX storage processor, saying the company’s Vera CPU-based AI-native storage platform posted clear gains over traditional x86 CPUs across a range of storage tasks. According to NVIDIA, the tests covered encryption, compression, data integrity checks, and recovery workloads that are becoming more demanding as AI agent applications scale and storage systems handle enterprise knowledge bases, long-term memory, KV cache, tool-call data, and model outputs. In the benchmark figures disclosed by the company, AES-128 encryption throughput improved by as much as 1.43x and decryption throughput by up to 1.29x. Reed-Solomon recovery reached up to 3.26x, CRC32C data integrity checks rose by as much as 3.67x, compression throughput increased by up to 3.29x, and decompression performance improved by as much as 1.72x. NVIDIA also said overall throughput in a combined compression-and-encryption storage pipeline improved by as much as 3.21x. The company said Vera CPU uses its in-house Olympus core architecture with 88 Armv9.2-compatible CPU cores, 176 threads, Scalable Coherency Fabric, and a SOCAMM2 LPDDR5X memory system, with up to 3.4 TB/s of interconnect bandwidth and up to 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth.