NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: Key Overview (Including Price Information)
1. Product Overview
- The NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell is NVIDIA’s flagship superchip for AI, supercomputing, and data centers, first unveiled in 2024.
- It combines the cutting-edge Blackwell GPU architecture with an Arm-based Grace CPU, connected via NVLink C2C, forming an extremely high-performance System-on-Chip (SoC) platform.
2. Main Specifications
| Category | Details |
|---|---|
| Architecture | Grace CPU (Arm) + 2 Blackwell GPUs (NVLink connected) |
| Memory | Up to 480GB LPDDR5X (ECC) for CPU, up to 864GB HBM3e for GPUs |
| Compute | Up to 40 PFLOPS (FP4 Tensor Core performance) |
| Interconnect | Single module: 3.6TB/s; 72-GPU node: 14.4TB/s (NVLink) |
| Use Cases | Massive AI training/inference, supercomputers, data centers, AI factories |
3. Market Position & Use Cases
- Top-tier AI/HPC superchip: The most powerful chip NVIDIA offers, built for large LLM training/inference, ultra-high-performance servers, and cloud infrastructure—practically the industry standard.
- Deployment: Adopted and supplied to leading global server and cloud providers including Amazon AWS, HPE, and Dell.
4. Release & Availability Timeline
- March 2024: Official debut at GTC 2024
- Q4 2024: Pilot/sample production begins
- Q1–Q2 2025: Full-scale mass production and deployment to core enterprise customers
- Second half of 2025: Launch of derivative products (e.g., GB10 workstations) for broader use
5. Price Information
- Per-chip price: Not officially disclosed; industry sources estimate “hundreds of thousands of USD (over $100,000 per chip)”1.
- System-level pricing (e.g., HPE GB200 NVL72 server/UltraCluster):
- Rack-scale systems are estimated at “several to tens of millions of dollars” depending on configuration.
- In Korean currency, this is roughly KRW 1–10 billion and up, subject to system specs and supply agreements.
- Purchase method: Not available to individual consumers; sold to enterprises as part of large-scale systems only.
Note:
- No official public price list exists; actual purchase cost is determined by system configuration and negotiations with suppliers.
- GB200 is a high-end, industrial-grade solution designed for enterprise AI/data centers.
6. Key Takeaways
- NVIDIA GB200 is the industry’s most powerful AI/HPC superchip and is exclusively supplied to enterprise customers.
- Price: “Hundreds of thousands of USD (per chip level), and several to tens of millions USD per system,” placing it firmly in the ultra-high-end market.
- Serves as the “core engine” of next-generation servers, cloud infrastructure, and AI factories worldwide.