Forbes November 25, 2024
If you take a look at what people are saying about Nvidia right now, you’re likely to hear about a new kind of architecture supporting the company’s data center services and operations.
It’s called Blackwell, and it’s brand new, as of March of this year, when Nvidia started using this design.
Blackwell replaces the Lovelace architecture created in 2022, and according to the company, it delivers some pretty impressive performance increases as well as other improvements.
Let’s look at specifically what’s in the Blackwell architecture, and why Nvidia is so proud of this technology.
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Nvidia spokespersons claim that the Blackwell architecture delivers a staggering 25 times the performance of the prior build, specifically, that the architecture...