Nvidia's Blackwell platform.
Nvidia's Blackwell platform.
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Nvidia unveils next-gen Blackwell GPUs with 25X lower costs and energy consumption

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Nvidia unveiled its next-generation Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs), which have 25 times better energy consumption and lower costs for tasks for AI processing.

The Nvidia GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip — meaning it consists of multiple chips in the same package — promises exceptional performance gains, providing up to 30 times performance increase for LLM inference workloads compared to previous iterations.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.