# NVIDIA Vera CPU delivers 1.6x more agents per watt than fastest x86 CPU

> Original title: Vera Delivers the Best of Both Worlds: Highest Throughput and Fastest Agents

- Source: NVIDIA Blog
- Published: 2026-11-05T20:00:41.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/cyrkhe9za1qmyrovro97oyb43
- Original: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/vera-cpu-highest-throughput-fastest-agents/

## Summary

NVIDIA says a single Vera CPU delivers 2x faster agent speed than the most energy-efficient x86 CPU and 1.6x more agents per watt than the fastest x86 CPU in a 100-megawatt data center comparison. Perplexity reports 1.5x faster agentic coding tasks on Vera than on traditional CPUs, and Perplexity plans to deploy Vera in an upcoming production system.