Nvidia unveils Blackwell GPU offering five times the performance for AI inference

Blackwell GPU contains 208 billion transistors and is paired with 192GB of HBM3e memory

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Jensen Huang

Nvidia has unveiled its latest B200 Blackwell GPU that, it claims, is twice as powerful as current GPUs for training AI models, and offers five times the performance at inference, the speed with which AI models respond to queries.

The Blackwell architecture contains 208 billion transistors and will be manufactured on TSMC's four nanometre 4NP process node, a refined version of the 4N process used to produce existing Nvidia H...

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