Blackwell (microarchitecture)
| Launched | Q4 2024 |
|---|---|
| Designed by | Nvidia |
| Manufactured by | |
| Fabrication process | TSMC 4NP (Datacenter)
TSMC 4N (Consumer) |
| Codename(s) | GB100 GB20x |
| Product Series | |
| Desktop | |
| Professional/workstation |
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| Specifications | |
| Memory support | GDDR7 (Consumer) HBM3e (Datacenter) |
| PCIe support | PCIe 5.0 (Consumer) PCIe 6.0 (Datacenter) |
| Supported Graphics APIs | |
| DirectX | DirectX 12 Ultimate (Feature Level 12_2) |
| Direct3D | Direct3D 12 |
| Shader Model | Shader Model 6.8 |
| OpenCL | OpenCL 3.0 (64-bit only, 32-bit support removed) |
| OpenGL | OpenGL 4.6 |
| Vulkan | Vulkan 1.4 |
| Supported Compute APIs | |
| CUDA | Compute Capability 10.x (64-bit only, 32-bit support removed) Compute Capability 12.x (64-bit only) |
| DirectCompute | Yes |
| Media Engine | |
| Encoder(s) supported | NVENC |
| History | |
| Predecessor | Ada Lovelace (consumer) Hopper (datacenter) |
| Successor | Rubin |
Blackwell is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to the Hopper and Ada Lovelace microarchitectures.
Named after statistician and mathematician David Blackwell, the name of the Blackwell architecture was leaked in 2022 with the B40 and B100 accelerators being confirmed in October 2023 with an official Nvidia roadmap shown during an investors presentation. It was officially announced at Nvidia's GTC 2024 keynote on March 18, 2024.