Friday, May 9th 2025
NVIDIA's GB10 Arm Superchip Looks Promising in Leaked Benchmark Results
Recent benchmark leaks from Geekbench have revealed that NVIDIA's first Arm-based "superchip," the GB10 Grace Blackwell, is on the verge of its market launch as reported by Notebookcheck. This processor is expected to be showcased at Computex 2025 later this month, where NVIDIA may also roll out the N1 and N1X (MediaTek confirmed in April that their CEO—Dr. Rick Tsai—will be delivering a big keynote speech at Computex 2025 trade show) alternatives tailored for desktop and laptop use. ASUS and Dell have already put the GB10 in their upcoming products while NVIDIA has also used it in its Project DIGITS AI supercomputer. The company announced this machine at CES 2025 saying it would cost around $2,999 and be ready to buy this month.
The benchmark listings show some inconsistencies, like identifying the chipset as Armv8 instead of Armv9. However, they point out that the GB10's Cortex-X925 cores can reach speeds up to 3.9 GHz. The performance results show that the GB10 can compete with high-end Arm and x86 processors in single-core metrics. Yet, Apple's M4 Max processors still leads in this area. The GB10 marks NVIDIA's move into the workstation-grade Arm processor market and could shake up the established players in the high-performance computing field.
Source:
Notebookcheck
The benchmark listings show some inconsistencies, like identifying the chipset as Armv8 instead of Armv9. However, they point out that the GB10's Cortex-X925 cores can reach speeds up to 3.9 GHz. The performance results show that the GB10 can compete with high-end Arm and x86 processors in single-core metrics. Yet, Apple's M4 Max processors still leads in this area. The GB10 marks NVIDIA's move into the workstation-grade Arm processor market and could shake up the established players in the high-performance computing field.
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There's no real reason to expect this to have the fastest CPU out there. Grace on the GH200/GB200 wasn't beating Epyc or Xeons either. The idea of such CPU is to have unified memory with the GPU, and be GREAT and moving data, which it manages to with its NVLink built straight into the CPU, eliminating PCIe bottlenecks.
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To be honest, the 50 series launch has done one big positive thing, for the ones willing to look into it.
The whole thing has been a big FU to everyone but you can see who is deeper than whom in Ngreedia pockets.
How? Actions like this (deleting articles) or anyone writing articles in positive lights that dont benefit us the consumers.
The article is pointless, geekbench is an irrelevant test for the product
It might become that when mediatek releases their consumer level chip for windows on arm with optimised schedulers
But this is like putting a van in a lineup of suvs and complaining it accelerate the slowest
But they do bring SOME info to the table.
Now, your comment does fall into the "my favorite corporation does no wrong hence I must blindly defend it."
I would say about that, I am biased against Ngreedia and intel, after disclaiming that, I would not ignore everything that makes AMD looks bad, like every favorites bribed influencer option, the "RT", loves to push.
My suggestion is....look somewhere in between.
That said, my personal and very BIASED opinion is, question everything positive pro-Ngreedia post/articles that you see from all these places because...money is definitely exchanging hands and they dont have your best interest at hand....
it scores 2874 geekbench 6 single threaded where the GB10 did 2,960 in the article at 3900mhz without the thermal constraints of being in a mobile device.
So I have doubts on how well things were optimized during that test.
not much fanboying about it.
rest what you said is probably correct
how are you going to run all those x86 apps on your ARM machine? using a "transition layer"? exactly what i do now?
If the cap fits, wear it.
I am not actually going to use ARM, I have no idea where you even took that from. And no, there is plenty of software, like scientific tool controls and data analytics that I use in the lab or CNC control software that I know of, that have a direct need for OS to hardware link and they will not run in a VM or a translation layer. You are SOL if you run Linux, full stop.
You don’t know even what you don’t know, as usual. Stop being a clown and don’t insult people for their choices of a fucking OS of all things. I swear, Linux advocates are one of the main hurdles to its adoption - people just don’t want to be associated with such obnoxious behavior.
Maybe you already use ARM too in your smartphone and maybe its even linux port.You quickly went into finding some niches where - supposedly (im not sure) - windows is still needed.
Well, i attached a picture that i do igpu passthrough and obv can do passthrough of other hardware. I have those VMs mostly because I use legacy PLC, 3D design apps. Working with embedded controllers is more fun in linux.why should i care? maybe like 15,10 years ago more people using linux would mean, idk, better linux. Now i feel everything is there. They are rewriting GNU to Rust. Crazy timeline, things are getting reversed. Lets not forget AI - ill prolly get better open-source AI agents and windows users will have to use ms ones OR ill run ms AI agents in a container.
Im sorry the truth offends you.
If we were talking about the mediatek-based product that is meant for the consumer market, then I wouldn't have made such comment.See above. You're thinking of the N1(X) chip in partnership with mediatek.
The GB10 is for a mini workstation, it won't be found in laptops.
Nvidia also has released their Ubuntu-based OS for those devices and the GB300 workstation.
256bit and 1000tops sounds like a 5070 with the extra memory bandwidth going to the arm cores.
and the n1 is supposed to be a cut down version of that???