Nvidia Blackwell B200: World's Most Powerful AI GPU Unveiled
0Nvidia has unveiled the groundbreaking Blackwell B200 GPU, a technological marvel poised to revolutionize the realm of artificial intelligence. Hailed as the "world's most powerful chip" for AI, the Blackwell B200 boasts an astonishing 208 billion transistors, delivering an unprecedented 20 petaflops of FP4 computing power.
This cutting-edge GPU, combined with Nvidia's innovative GB200 "superchip," promises a staggering 30 times the performance for large language model (LLM) inference workloads compared to the previous H100 chip. Additionally, it offers substantial energy efficiency, reducing cost and energy consumption by up to 25 times.
The Blackwell B200 introduces a second-generation transformer engine, doubling the compute, bandwidth, and model size by utilizing four bits for each neuron instead of eight. Furthermore, a next-gen NVLink switch allows an astounding 576 GPUs to communicate seamlessly, with a bidirectional bandwidth of 1.8 terabytes per second.
Nvidia's commitment to pushing the boundaries of AI is evident in its packaging of these GPUs into larger designs like the GB200 NVL72, a liquid-cooled rack housing 36 CPUs and 72 GPUs, delivering a staggering 720 petaflops of AI training performance or 1.4 exaflops of inference power.
With tech giants like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle already planning to offer Nvidia's NVL72 racks in their cloud services, the Blackwell B200 is poised to democratize trillion-parameter AI models, making them accessible to a broader range of enterprises and researchers.
Witness the future of AI unfold as Nvidia's Blackwell B200 GPU ushers in a new era of unprecedented performance, energy efficiency, and accessibility. Stay tuned for further updates on this revolutionary technology that will shape the course of artificial intelligence.