Sunday, March 17th 2024
NVIDIA B100 "Blackwell" AI GPU Technical Details Leak Out
Jensen Huang's opening GTC 2024 keynote is scheduled to happen tomorrow afternoon (13:00 Pacific time)—many industry experts believe that the NVIDIA boss will take the stage and formally introduce his company's B100 "Blackwell" GPU architecture. An enlightened few have been treated to preview (AI and HPC) units—including Dell's CEO, Jeff Clarke—but pre-introduction leaks have not flowed out. Team Green is likely enforcing strict conditions upon a fortunate selection of trusted evaluators, within a pool of ecosystem partners and customers.
Today, a brave soul has broken that silence—tech tipster, AGF/XpeaGPU, fears repercussions from the leather-jacketed one. They revealed a handful of technical details, a day prior to Team Green's highly anticipated unveiling: "I don't want to spoil NVIDIA B100 launch tomorrow, but this thing is a monster. 2 dies on (TSMC) CoWoS-L, 8x8-Hi HBM3E stacks for 192 GB of memory." They also crystal balled an inevitable follow-up card: "one year later, B200 goes with 12-Hi stacks and will offer a beefy 288 GB. And the performance! It's... oh no Jensen is there... me run away!" Reuters has also joined in on the fun, with some predictions and insider information: "NVIDIA is unlikely to give specific pricing, but the B100 is likely to cost more than its predecessor, which sells for upwards of $20,000." Enterprise products are expected to arrive first—possibly later this year—followed by gaming variants, maybe months later.
Sources:
AGF Tweet, VideoCardz, Reuters, Wccftech
Today, a brave soul has broken that silence—tech tipster, AGF/XpeaGPU, fears repercussions from the leather-jacketed one. They revealed a handful of technical details, a day prior to Team Green's highly anticipated unveiling: "I don't want to spoil NVIDIA B100 launch tomorrow, but this thing is a monster. 2 dies on (TSMC) CoWoS-L, 8x8-Hi HBM3E stacks for 192 GB of memory." They also crystal balled an inevitable follow-up card: "one year later, B200 goes with 12-Hi stacks and will offer a beefy 288 GB. And the performance! It's... oh no Jensen is there... me run away!" Reuters has also joined in on the fun, with some predictions and insider information: "NVIDIA is unlikely to give specific pricing, but the B100 is likely to cost more than its predecessor, which sells for upwards of $20,000." Enterprise products are expected to arrive first—possibly later this year—followed by gaming variants, maybe months later.
41 Comments on NVIDIA B100 "Blackwell" AI GPU Technical Details Leak Out
Takes a couple of years.
Apart from that you did not answer the question, are you offended by the association joke about Jensen and his leather jackets, based on the fact that that is the only thing he ever wears (willingly)?
And that is the catalyst to the negative criticism of the reporting in this article?
(This is a jab at Nvidia, not the user I'm replying to)
The UK however, has Rob Halford, and being a Metal God nets him at least 2-3x Jackets.
As for Jensen...no, he does not get to be in the All-Time Cool Guy Leather Jacket Club.
By the way, is Blackwell not their new mainstream architecture? I'm confused now.
For pretty much every game I can get consistenly over 120fps. Also, I don't get screen tearing or any artifacts at 999+ fps in anything including such games as Rocket League at 4K with my rtx 4090. . But when unlocked it uses 99% gpu and about 450w.
So, put it down to the 240fps or at 120fps it uses 80watts.
That's the benefit of a 4090 over a 4080. While it has a higher tdp and potential performance it can also use a lot less power than over GPUs if you cap it.
Either way, it seems too soon to release a 5090 while the prices are still an extra zero too high, there are no new games that are coming our requiring a 4090 killer, consoles need a massive refresh or all new games will become more cartoony so consoles can have the 4k 100fps+ experience and there is no new GTA or Cyberpunk coming out this year.
However, while it has been a few years after the nvidia marbles demonstration was shown, if it is released to test and I don't get 120+ fps at 4k with my 4090 @ 2910-3000mhz (typical core clock) then I'd see the point.