A 39-test comparison between Nvidia's Grace server CPU and AMD's Threadripper 7980X and Threadripper Pro 7995WX shows that Nvidia's Arm-based chip isn't far behind AMD's powerhouse. The benchmarks come courtesy of Phoronix, which put the three CPUs to the test in various Linux applications, and while it's clear that Grace isn't a champion, it's still impressive.
In the comparison, Phoronix tested a workstation from GPTshop.ai equipped with a Grace-Hopper GH200, which has both a Grace CPU and a Hopper-based H200 GPU. The Grace CPU has 72 cores, 480GB of LPDDR5X memory, and is based on the Arm architecture. Individual Grace chips aren't sold alone; they're only found in CPU-GPU combo devices like GH200 and in the double-chip Grace Superchip. By contrast, Threadripper 7000 features multiple models and can come with up to 1TB of DDR5.
