# Oracle brings Nvidia Vera CPU instances to OCI

> Oracle says Vera CPUs and Vera Rubin NVL72 racks are generally available on OCI Superclusters. Tom’s Hardware’s local tests were not run on Oracle’s cloud.

Oossa · 2026-10-28 · https://oossa.com/en/oracle-brings-nvidia-vera-cpu-instances-to-oci

Nvidia and Oracle announced general availability of Nvidia Vera CPUs and Vera Rubin NVL72 racks on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Superclusters at Oracle AI World on Tuesday. Oracle is also offering standalone Vera CPU instances, rather than making the chip available only as part of a system built around Nvidia GPUs.

Tom’s Hardware describes the announcement as part of a multi-gigawatt OCI deployment. It also reports plans for Rubin-only clusters connected to servers with two Intel Xeon 6 CPUs. The announcement adds another major cloud provider to the list offering Vera Rubin: Google Cloud announced general availability the previous week.

## Why standalone Vera stands out

Nvidia’s Vera platform is appearing at AI-focused cloud providers including Nscale, CoreWeave and Nebius, where deployments are underway. Oracle’s decision to offer Vera CPUs as standalone instances at a major cloud provider is a different step, Tom’s Hardware notes. It makes Vera available as a cloud CPU option in its own right, not just within Nvidia’s GPU-focused rack systems.

That distinction may matter to customers choosing cloud hardware for workloads that need CPUs without a full GPU rack. But the announcement details supplied here do not specify instance sizes, prices, or which customers can access them, so it is not possible to compare Oracle’s offer with those from other providers.

## What the performance tests show

Tom’s Hardware included early benchmarks from a Vera server it tested locally. The outlet says the results show Vera with a large memory-bandwidth lead over a dual Xeon 6 server, but it does not provide the figures in the supplied details. These tests were not run on OCI, and they do not show how Vera instances will perform for Oracle customers. Tom’s Hardware says a fuller review is forthcoming.

## The facts

- Oracle announced general availability of Vera CPUs and Vera Rubin NVL72 racks on OCI Superclusters at Oracle AI World.
- Tom’s Hardware says Oracle is offering standalone Vera CPU instances.
- Google Cloud announced Vera Rubin general availability the previous week.
- Tom’s Hardware’s Vera benchmarks used a local server, not OCI infrastructure.

## Why it matters

For businesses choosing cloud compute, Oracle’s standalone Vera instances add a CPU-only option alongside its GPU-focused systems. Their price, specifications and performance on OCI are not established by the local benchmarks, so customers cannot yet use those tests to predict their own cloud results.

## Sources & references

1. [Standalone Nvidia Vera CPUs land in Oracle Cloud's multi-gigawatt deployment — our independent benchmarking of a local server reveals Vera's massive memory bandwidth lead over dual Xeon 6 server](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-and-oracle-bring-vera-cpu-instances-online-in-multi-gigawatt-deployment-oci-superclusters-also-set-to-expand-with-rubin-only-clusters-attached-to-dual-xeon-6-hosts) – Tom's Hardware, 2026-10-28

Last updated: 2026-10-28