Nvidia GB10 superchip sparks into life in early benchmark results
Almost two months have passed since Asus and Dell unveiled the first devices powered by Nvidia's GB10 Grace Blackwell ARM chipset. Before that, Nvidia itself presented the Project DIGITS AI supercomputer during CES 2025, which it claimed would be available this month for around $2,999.
Now, the so-called 'superchip' underpinning these three devices has appeared on Geekbench in four separate benchmark listings. Please note that a few oddities exist in these listings. For one, Geekbench refers to the GB10 as an ARMv8 chipset when its ARM Cortex-X725 and Cortex-X925 CPU cores leverage the newer ARMv9 instruction set instead.
Also, performance numbers are all over the place at this stage. In other words, we would not pay particular attention to these, although single-core performance trades blows with high-end ARM and x86 processors. For reference, Apple's recent M4 generation chipsets reign supreme in this regard, headed by the M4 Max inside devices like the MacBook Pro 16 (curr. $3,517 on Amazon).
Geekbench underlines that the GB10's Cortex-X925 cores can reach 3.9 GHz. Unfortunately, it does not provide any insights about the chipset's Cortex-X725 cores, though. While the GB10 is a workstation-grade chipset, there are suggestions that Nvidia may be headed to Computex 2025 later this month armed with N1 and N1X alternatives aimed at desktops and laptops.
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Geekbench via @9550pro, Hardware Luxx - Image credit
