Blackwell (microarchitecture)
Blackwell is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to the Hopper and Ada Lovelace microarchitectures.
| Launched | March 18, 2024 |
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| Designed by | Nvidia |
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| Fabrication process | TSMC 4NP |
| Specifications | |
| Memory support | HBM3e |
| PCIe support | PCIe 6.0 |
| Supported Graphics APIs | |
| DirectX | DirectX 12 Ultimate (Feature Level 12_2) |
| Direct3D | Direct3D 12 |
| Shader Model | Shader Model 6.8 |
| OpenCL | OpenCL 3.0 |
| OpenGL | OpenGL 4.6 |
| CUDA | Compute Capability 10.x |
| Vulkan | Vulkan 1.3 |
| Supported Compute APIs | |
| CUDA | CUDA Toolkit 10.0 |
| DirectCompute | Yes |
| Media Engine | |
| Encoder(s) supported | NVENC |
| History | |
| Predecessor | Ada Lovelace (consumer) Hopper (datacenter) |
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. and was officially announced at Nvidia's GTC 2024 keynote on March 18, 2024.
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