Tag: blackwell

  • NVIDIA RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell: 5090 Compute, 84 GB, Built for Racks

    NVIDIA RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell: 5090 Compute, 84 GB, Built for Racks

    NVIDIA has added the RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell Workstation Edition to its professional GPU lineup. Product listings went up on September 14, 2026. The card pairs the same 21,760 CUDA cores as the consumer GeForce RTX 5090 with 84 GB of ECC GDDR7 memory, 2.6 times the 5090’s 32 GB, and draws up to 600 […]

  • FlashAttention-4: Algorithm and Kernel Co-Design for Blackwell GPUs

    FlashAttention-4: Algorithm and Kernel Co-Design for Blackwell GPUs

    Key points On March 5, 2026, Tri Dao and collaborators from Princeton University, Together AI, Meta, NVIDIA, and Colfax Research released FlashAttention-4, a ground-up redesign of the attention kernel optimized for NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPUs. The kernel reaches up to 1,605 TFLOPs/s on the B200 at 71 percent hardware utilization, running 1.3x faster than cuDNN 9.13 […]

  • Nvidia Introduces Lower-Cost Blackwell AI Chip for China Amid Export Restrictions

    Content In response to stringent U.S. export controls, Nvidia is set to launch a more affordable AI graphics processing unit (GPU) tailored for the Chinese market. This new chip, based on Nvidia’s latest Blackwell architecture, is expected to be priced between $6,500 and $8,000, significantly lower than the $10,000–$12,000 price tag of the previously available […]