NVIDIA Vera Storage Benchmarks: Faster Encryption, Compression, Integrity Checking, and Recovery for AI-Native Storage | NVIDIA Technical Blog

This post benchmarks the NVIDIA Vera BlueField-4 STX Storage Processor, demonstrating its performance advantages over x86 CPUs for AI-native storage workloads. It details throughput gains of up to 1.43x for AES-128 encryption, 3.26x for Reed-Solomon recovery, 3.67x for CRC32C integrity checking, and 3.29x for compression. The benchmarks highlight how Vera's architecture, with its 88 Armv9.2 cores, Spatial Multithreading, and high-bandwidth memory, addresses the dual demands of sustained per-core performance and system-wide bandwidth for storage primitives. The post emphasizes that these improvements enable storage platforms to secure, protect, validate, and compress more data with less CPU and power overhead, increasing storage-processing throughput and efficiency.