Nvidia has reported plans to sell an accelerator with Blackwell GPU that will be ideal for AI. The approximate price of the accelerator will range from $30 to 40 thousand. However, this is not yet the final decision regarding future sales, mainly because the company plans to sell a stack of processing components.
The exceptional performance characteristics of the B200 accelerator became possible due to the 192 GB of HBM3E memory, but this is not the only influence. The high performance is primarily achieved because of 2 chips with 204 billion transistors. This solution will be much more expensive, currently the price of the H100 is $3100, and according to rough calculations, the price of the new accelerator can reach $6000.
The GB200 was quite a pricey project for a variety of reasons, and the company's payments exceeded approximately $10 billion on GPU design and architecture.
Last year, with considerable market demand and fairly restricted supply, the company's partners sold H100 solutions for nearly $30-40 thousand.
Evaluating the available announcements about Nvidia's plans, there is a high probability that B200 cards will not be available for sale. The company intends mainly to sell DGX B200 or DGX B200 SuperPOD servers with B200 accelerators, each priced at millions of dol.
The company's CEO stated that they are more interested in the premium segment, for instance in selling DGX B200 SuperPODS. Therefore, at the moment, there are no B200 cards on the company's official website, but you can still access them in the DGX B200 SuperPOD and one more system.
