NVIDIA’s Next-Gen Blackwell GB100 GPUs Utilize Chiplet Design, Feature Significant Changes
NVIDIA's next-gen Blackwell GB100 GPUs for HPC & AI customers are rumored to go fully onboard with a chiplet design according to Kopite7kimi.
The latest rumor states two things, the first is that NVIDIA is now expected to utilize its first chiplet design for the modern-day data center segment. So just as a recap, the NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs were initially anticipated to be the first family to go down the chiplet route until rumors reported that the company had decided against it and was meant to use a more standard monolithic design. Chiplet and Monolithic designs both come with their advantages and disadvantages but given the cost and efficiency required to achieve performance uplifts today, chiplet and other advanced tech for packaging are being utilized by competitors such as AMD and Intel.
NVIDIA has so far proven that the industry can move forward without using chiplet with its Hopper and Ada Lovelace GPUs both excelling in delivering the best performance per watt & the highest margins that the company has ever seen. But moving forward, that's going to change, and starting Blackwell, we might just see NVIDIA's first chipset-packaged design. The Blackwell GPUs are so far scheduled for a 2024 release for the datacenter and AI segment.
After the dramas of GA100 and GH100, it seems that GB100 is finally going to use MCM.
— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) September 18, 2023
Kopite7kimi puts the emphasis on the Data Center and AI GPUs when talking about Blackwell. This shows that NVIDIA may not yet move over to chiplets for its gaming GPUs codenamed "Ada-Next" but incorporate a level of advantage packaging technologies within its Data Center and AI GPUs to maximize chip output. As mentioned above, chiplets come with their
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