Nvidia reportedly boosts Vera Rubin performance to ward hyperscalers off AMD Instinct AI accelerators
Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform is the company's next-generation architecture for AI data centers that includes an 88-core Vera CPU, Rubin GPU with 288 GB HBM4 memory, Rubin CPX GPU with 128 GB of GDDR7 , NVLink 6.0 switch ASIC for scale-up rack-scale connectivity, BlueField-4 DPU with integrated SSD to store key-value cache, Spectrum-6 Photonics Ethernet, and Quantum-CX9 1.6 Tb/s Photonics InfiniBand NICs, as well as Spectrum-X Photonics Ethernet and Quantum-CX9 Photonics InfiniBand switching silicon for scale-out connectivity.
In a bid to get ready for the arrival of the Vera Rubin platform, the company's partners have to prepare their software and hardware stacks for it, so different partners will get different parts of the platform, whereas some will get actual NVL72 VR200 racks packing all of the aforementioned components. Also, samples of actual silicon will also go to hardware partners, such as Foxconn, Quanta, Supermicro, Wistron, and other well-known makers of AI servers.
According to market rumors , Nvidia intends to ship its partners fully assembled Level-10 (L10) VR200 compute trays with Vera CPU and Rubin GPUs, cooling systems, and interfaces pre-installed, leaving very little design and integration work freedom to its ODMs.
"Based on its modular cable-free tray design, Rubin will deliver improved resiliency and serviceability relative to Blackwell," Kress added. "We expect every cloud model builder to deploy Vera Rubin."
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