Technical Analysis of Nvidia GB10's Memory Subsystem Architecture from CPU Perspective
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Summary
This article provides a technical analysis of Nvidia GB10's memory subsystem from the CPU perspective. GB10 is a collaboration between Nvidia and Mediatek that integrates Nvidia's Blackwell architecture into an integrated GPU. The article focuses on the memory subsystem design decisions and tradeoffs required to feed the powerful compute resources, including 48 Blackwell SMs (matching RTX 5070 core count) and 20 CPU cores (10 Cortex X925 + 10 Cortex A725). The analysis examines how Nvidia and Mediatek approached memory subsystem design for this high-performance integrated solution.
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GB10's GPU has 48 Blackwell SMs, matching the RTX 5070 in core count.
The CPU side has 10 Cortex X925 and 10 Cortex A725 cores and is therefore quite powerful.
Feeding all of that compute power requires a beefy memory subsystem, and can lead to difficult tradeoffs.
Analyzing GB10's memory subsystem from the CPU side will be the focus of this article.
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