Nvidia currently sits atop the AI world, with data center GPUs that everybody wants. Its Hopper H100 and GH200 Grace Hopper superchip are in serious demand and power many of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. Well hang on to your seats: Nvidia just revealed the successor to Hopper. AT GTC 2024 today, CEO Jensen Huang dropped the Blackwell B200 bomb, the next-generation data center and AI GPU that will provide a massive generational leap in computational power.
The Blackwell architecture and B200 GPU take over from H100/H200. There will also be a Grace Blackwell GB200 superchip, which as you can guess by the name will keep the Grace CPU architecture but pair it with the updated Blackwell GPU. We anticipate Nvidia will eventually have consumer-class Blackwell GPUs as well, but those may not arrive until 2025 and will be quite different from the data center chips.
