Chip comparison
NVIDIA B200 (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.
| Field | NVIDIA B200 (Blackwell) | NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | TSMC 4NP | TSMC 4NP |
| Transistors (B) | 208 | — |
| TDP | 1000 W | 2700 W |
| Memory | 192 GB HBM3e | 384 GB HBM3e |
| Memory bandwidth | 8,000 GB/s | 16,000 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | 2,250 TFLOPS | — |
| BF16 (dense) | 2,250 TFLOPS | — |
| FP8 (dense) | 4,500 TFLOPS | 9,000 TFLOPS |
| INT8 (dense) | 4,500 TOPS | — |
| Form factor | SXM6 | Superchip (2xB200 + 1xGrace) |
| Announced | 2024-03-18 | 2024-03-18 |
| Released | 2024-11-01 | 2024-12-01 |
Robots running NVIDIA B200 (Blackwell)
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Robots running NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip
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Data centers with NVIDIA B200 (Blackwell)
Data centers with NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip
Common questions
NVIDIA B200 (Blackwell) vs NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: which is faster for training?
NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip has 2.00x the dense FP8 throughput of the other (NVIDIA B200 (Blackwell): 4,500 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 B200 (Blackwell) vs NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: which has more memory?
NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip carries more HBM (NVIDIA B200 (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 B200 (Blackwell) vs NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP8 TFLOPS per watt: NVIDIA B200 (Blackwell) 4.50 (4,500 ÷ 1000 W); NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip 3.33 (9,000 ÷ 2700 W). NVIDIA B200 (Blackwell) wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.
NVIDIA B200 (Blackwell) vs NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: which is more widely used?
NVIDIA B200 (Blackwell): 0 robots and 3 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.
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