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NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip vs NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU

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 GB200 Grace Blackwell SuperchipNVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU
Process nodeTSMC 4NPTSMC 12FFN
Transistors (B)21.1
Die size815 mm²
TDP2700 W300 W
Memory384 GB HBM3e32 GB HBM2
Memory bandwidth16,000 GB/s900 GB/s
FP16 (dense)125 TFLOPS
FP8 (dense)9,000 TFLOPS
Form factorSuperchip (2xB200 + 1xGrace)SXM2 / PCIe
Announced2024-03-182017-05-10
Released2024-12-012017-12-01

Robots running NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip

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Robots running NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU

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Data centers with NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU

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Common questions

NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip vs NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU: which is faster for training?

NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip has 72.00x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: 9,000 TFLOPS; NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU: 125 TFLOPS). Real-world training speed also depends on memory bandwidth, interconnect, and software stack: see the spec diff for those inputs.

NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip vs NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU: which has more memory?

NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip carries more HBM (NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: 384 GB HBM3e; NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU: 32 GB HBM2). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.

NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip vs NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU: which is more power-efficient?

Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip 3.33 (9,000 ÷ 2700 W); NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU 0.42 (125 ÷ 300 W). NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.

NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip vs NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU: which is more widely used?

NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: 0 robots and 11 data centers publicly running it. NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU: 0 robots and 0 data centers. Empty here means no operator has said publicly, not zero adoption in the market.

See also: every chip comparison · NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip full page · NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU full page.