On the near horizon — H2 2025 — Nvidia will release Blackwell Ultra, a GPU that’ll come in several configurations. A single Ultra chip will offer the same 20 petaflops of AI performance as Blackwell, but with 288GB of memory — up from 192GB in vanilla Blackwell.

This year’s Blackwell Ultra isn’t what we originally expected, when Nvidia said last year that it would begin producing new AI chips on a yearly cadence, faster than ever before. But Nvidia quickly moved on from Blackwell Ultra during today’s GDC keynote to reveal its next architecture,

Late into his keynote at Nvidia’s 2025 GTC conference, CEO Jensen Huang announced the next generation of Nvidia AI data center chips named Vera and Rubin, after the groundbreaking astrophysicist. Vera is an Arm-based CPU chip that is the ringleader in an Nvidia AI server,