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NVIDIA Blackwell

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NVL72 rack-scale coherent GPU domains, the default substrate for frontier training and inference.

Current version

GB200 NVL72

Entry cost

~$2-6 per GPU-hour on clouds

Changes / 30d

0

Capabilities

  • 72-GPU NVLink domain
  • FP4 inference
  • HBM3E 192GB
  • CUDA ecosystem

Pricing

~$2-6 per GPU-hour on clouds

Entry price over time

Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.

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Models under the hood

  • Blackwell B200

    NVIDIA

    disclosed

  • Grace CPU

    NVIDIA

    disclosed

Context window

—

Public API

yes

Multi-model routing

no

Stack signals

  • CUDA
  • NVLink 5
  • TSMC 4NP
  • HBM3E

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unknown

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

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Change history

  • version

    GB200 NVL72 racks reach broad cloud availability

    HGX H200GB200 NVL72

    source
  • capability

    FP4 inference kernels land in TensorRT-LLM

    —FP4 inference

    source