NVIDIA Rosa CPU with Rigel Core targets Agentic AI with higher per-core performance

NVIDIA Confirms Some Rosa CPU Details With Its Rigel Core

In a blog post today talking up the single threaded CPU performance of their Vera CPU with Olympus cores, NVIDIA confirmed a few basic details of their next-gen Rosa CPU featuring their "Rigel" core. While NVIDIA Vera only recently began shipping and in late May we delivered some of the first benchmarks of the NVIDIA Vera CPU, NVIDIA has already begun sharing some brief details around their next-generation Rosa CPU with Rigel core. NVIDIA shared in a blog post predominantly talking up Vera's single threaded performance benefits: "NVIDIA's next-generation Rosa CPU with the Rigel core will continue the company's CPU roadmap for the agentic AI era. Rigel is NVIDIA's next-generation Arm v9.2 CPU core, delivering higher per-core performance than Olympus while keeping the same silicon footprint. Key improvements include better instruction delivery, a larger L2 cache and more efficient memory handling." NVIDIA Rosa will build off Vera's successes as an agentic AI processor while featuring higher per-core performance, larger L2 cache, and more efficient memory handling while sticking to Vera's silicon footprint. That's all for now on the Rosa/Rigel details shared by NVIDIA. In due time it will be interesting to see how the NVIDIA Rosa CPU can compete with the other server CPU competition in the form of AMD EPYC Venice and Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids.

NVIDIA's Next-Gen Rosa CPU To Feature Rigel "Arm v9.2" Cores With Larger L2 Cache & Higher Per-Core Performance In The Same Silicon Footprint

NVIDIA has disclosed the first real information about its next-generation Rosa CPU, which will be coupled with its Feynman lineup. NVIDIA Rosa CPU Extends Vera's Per-Core Leadership With A New Core Architecture, Larger Cache, & Better Instruction Delivery At GTC 2026, NVIDIA disclosed its next-gen Data Center CPU, called Rosa. The Rosa CPU will be launching alongside Feynman and will be precisely optimized for Agentic AI workloads as those continue to demand increased processing performance. Rosa is named after American physicist & a Nobel Prize winner, Rosalyn Sussman. Today, NVIDIA confirms more details of its next-generation Rosa CPU, and these are some big ones. Starting with the most important detail, NVIDIA has said that its Rosa CPUs will utilize a brand new core architecture called "Rigel," which is based on the Arm v9.2 CPU core. Like Vera, Rosa will be a really fast chip for AI processing, achieving even more "max single-threaded" CPU performance at scale than its predecessor. While Vera utilizes the Olympus cores, which are custom Armv9.2-A cores that offer 2x the throughput versus Grace, Rosa will take the single-core performance advantage even further. What's more impressive is that the performance uplift will be achieved in the same silicon footprint. NVIDIA's next-generation Rosa CPU with the Rigel core will continue the company's CPU roadmap for the agentic AI era. Rigel is NVIDIA's next-generation Arm v9.2 CPU core, delivering higher per-core performance than Olympus while keeping the same silicon footprint. Key improvements include better instruction delivery, a larger L2 cache, and more efficient memory handling. via NVIDIA Coming to additional details, NVIDIA highlights improvements in the form of better instruction delivery, a larger L2 cache, and more efficient memory handling. Currently, Vera is equipped with 88 Olympus cores, up from 72 cores on Grace. It isn't mentioned if Rosa comes with a core count increase. Key Specifications Comparison Looking at Rosa and NVIDIA's handling of its CPU architectures with Grace and now Vera, the company has come a long way, tackling x86 competitors directly in the AI space. Vera is already in full production and is now shipping Vera Rubin and Standalone racks to major AI firms across the globe. The NVIDIA CPU strategy stretches beyond Enterprise and Data Centers, as the same cores will be housed by next-generation RTX Spark chips. The first of the RTX Spark chips are expected this fall, bringing Grace and Blackwell together with 2028's lineup focusing on Vera Rubin combos, and finally, Rosa should enter the market by 2029 in data centers, followed by PC-specific variants in the Rosa Feynman Spark solutions by 2030. NVIDIA Data Center / AI GPU Roadmap Follow Wccftech on Google to get more of our news coverage in your feeds.