Leaked benchmarks are believed to be tests for the upcoming processor, which NVIDIA and MediaTek are developing for desktop and mobile applications. It’s been known for some time that NVIDIA has aspirations of expanding into the CPU segment of computing products. It has already dominated the AI enterprise sector and the consumer GPU market, and while it does offer custom SoCs to Nintendo, it hasn’t truly flexed its R&D muscle in the non-GPU arena yet, but that could be happening soon. Arm-based processors have made significant strides in recent years, and many of NVIDIA’s competitors have already begun experimenting with them for mobile and sometimes desktop configurations. These low-powered solutions can offer many cores and be paired with graphics solutions to offer impressive results.
It had been rumored that NVIDIA would reveal its collaboration with MediaTek called the N1, for mobile, and N1X, for desktop, at Computex 2025, but that did not happen. The N1x is thought to use 10 Cortex-X925 and 10 Cortex-A725 cores, a similar configuration to the SoC used in the DGX Spark that utilizes NVIDIA’s GB10 SuperChip. The 20-core GB10 is capable of supporting up to 128 GB LPDDR5X memory at 273 GB/s. If the N1 and N1x are indeed based on the GB10, they will likely be scaled down in some fashion, but official specifications for either have not yet been revealed. Meanwhile, though, leaked Geekbench scores (via VideoCardz) for what appears to be the NVIDIA N1X could indicate what to expect.
A few takeaways from these results are:
- An ARM-based processor with 20 threads
- Base clock of 2.81 GHz (it was reported that boost clock is 4.051 GHz)
- System Memory of 119.59 GB
- The system is running Linux (Ubuntu)
- Processor name: NVIDIA N1x
It’s suspected that the system could indeed be using 128 GB of memory, but 8 GB has been reserved for the processor. It’s also possible that Geekbench incorrectly identifies the package as 1 core instead of seeing the two different 10-core Cortex processors. However, if these scores are accurate and this is indeed NVIDIA’s upcoming desktop offering, then things are looking promising with single-core scores besting the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 and the Ryzen AI HX 370 in both tests. Aside from whichever GPU die NVIDIA chooses to pair with its CPU, the other question will be how well it performs when running Windows, as ARM-based offerings still continue to face challenges here.