Nvidia's Latest Graphics Architecture: Blackwell and the Massive GB202 Die
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Nvidia's latest graphics architecture, Blackwell, features the massive GB202 die with 92.2 billion transistors and 192 Streaming Multiprocessors. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is the largest configuration using GB202. It is compared to the RTX 5090 in Nvidia's lineup.
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GB202 is the largest Blackwell die. It occupies a massive 750mm2 of area, and has 92.2 billion transistors.
Nvidia’s RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell features the largest GB202 configuration to date.
It sits alongside the RTX 5090 in Nvidia’s lineup, which also uses GB202 but disables a few more SMs.
Nvidia has a long tradition of building giant GPUs.
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