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NVIDIA B100 (Blackwell) vs NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip

Side-by-side specs

Straight from each vendor's datasheet. Winner in bold: higher throughput, memory, or transistor count; lower power draw or price. Sparse (2:4) throughput roughly doubles the FP8/INT8 numbers shown.

FieldNVIDIA B100 (Blackwell)NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip
Process nodeTSMC 4NPTSMC 4NP
TDP700 W2700 W
Memory192 GB HBM3e384 GB HBM3e
Memory bandwidth8,000 GB/s16,000 GB/s
FP16 (dense)1,750 TFLOPS
BF16 (dense)1,750 TFLOPS
FP8 (dense)3,500 TFLOPS9,000 TFLOPS
Form factorSXM6 (700 W envelope)Superchip (2xB200 + 1xGrace)
Announced2024-03-182024-03-18
Released2024-11-012024-12-01

Robots running NVIDIA B100 (Blackwell)

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Robots running NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip

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Data centers with NVIDIA B100 (Blackwell)

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Common questions

NVIDIA B100 (Blackwell) vs NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: which is faster for training?

NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip has 2.57x the dense FP8 throughput of the other (NVIDIA B100 (Blackwell): 3,500 TFLOPS; NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: 9,000 TFLOPS). Real-world training speed also depends on memory bandwidth, interconnect, and software stack: see the spec diff for those inputs.

NVIDIA B100 (Blackwell) vs NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: which has more memory?

NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip carries more HBM (NVIDIA B100 (Blackwell): 192 GB HBM3e; NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: 384 GB HBM3e). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.

NVIDIA B100 (Blackwell) vs NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: which is more power-efficient?

Dense FP8 TFLOPS per watt: NVIDIA B100 (Blackwell) 5.00 (3,500 ÷ 700 W); NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip 3.33 (9,000 ÷ 2700 W). NVIDIA B100 (Blackwell) wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.

NVIDIA B100 (Blackwell) vs NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: which is more widely used?

NVIDIA B100 (Blackwell): 0 robots and 0 data centers publicly running it. NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: 0 robots and 11 data centers. Empty here means no operator has said publicly, not zero adoption in the market.

See also: every chip comparison · NVIDIA B100 (Blackwell) full page · NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip full page.