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Jeremy Laird

Nvidia's new Blackwell AI GPU raises some tricky questions about its next-gen RTX 50-series graphics cards

Images of Nvidia's Blackwell GPU from GTC.

So, Nvidia's new AI monster is out, all 208 billion transistors of it. And immediately it's raising some tricky questions about what the hell Nvidia's upcoming Blackwell RTX 50-series graphics chips are going to look like.

From a gaming graphics perspective, many of the technicalities of Nvidia's new AI GPU aren't hugely relevant. However, there were two key pieces of information from the Nvidia Blackwell AI launch. First, it uses the existing TSMC N4 node—albeit a custom 4NP version—not one of the new TSMC N3 nodes. Second, it uses multi-die engineering, with two chips making up a single Blackwell AI GPU.

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