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NVIDIA announces Blackwell B200 GPU and GB200 NVL72 rack at GTC

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Source: NVIDIA Newsroom

NVIDIA announced the Blackwell platform at GTC on 18 March 2024: a 208-billion-transistor GPU made on a custom TSMC 4NP process from two dies joined by a 10 TB/s link. Its GB200 NVL72 rack joins 72 Blackwell GPUs and 36 Grace CPUs, which NVIDIA says gives up to 30 times the LLM inference performance of the same number of H100s at up to 25 times lower cost and energy.

Why it matters

AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Meta, OpenAI and xAI said they would use Blackwell, and its liquid-cooled racks set new power and cooling needs for data centres.

When
18 Mar 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0083
Who
NVIDIA, TSMC; Jensen Huang

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from NVIDIA Newsroom. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at NVIDIA Newsroom

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2024-0083: “NVIDIA announces Blackwell B200 GPU and GB200 NVL72 rack at GTC.” wheresthe.ai, 18 Mar 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/nvidia-blackwell-gb200-announced-2024-03/ (source: NVIDIA Newsroom).

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