Talk:Blackwell (microarchitecture)

Merge with Draft:Blackwell_(microarchitecture)
This article is a duplicate with relatively little content (some of which inaccurate) and it may be easier to merge with Draft:Blackwell (microarchitecture) before publishing to mainspace, thoughts? ObjectOrientedCat (talk) 18:12, 19 March 2024 (UTC)


 * This looks AI generated. Just check the Architecture section. I'd say don't merge, scrap the whole thing and replace with Draft. Unless you can be bothered fact-checking every single sentence. Delicates (talk) 12:51, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Compute capability 10.X
There are no references that indicate NVIDIA announced compute capability 10.X with Blackwell. Compute capability merely indicates the architecture generation of an NVIDIA GPU, and nothing more. A GeForce 2080 Ti and Titan T4 are very different cards, yet they're both compute capability 7.5 (or SM75) to indicate they are both the Turing architecture.

One architecture can also have multiple compute capability tags associated with it. The most recent example of that is the Ampere architecture: 8.0 and 8.6.

Ada Lovelace and Hopper are two different architectures introduced at the same time, and yet the former was 8.9 (SM89), and the latter was 9.0 (SM90).

Another counterexample of two different architectures having the same major version is Volta (7.0) vs Turing (7.5).

While it is likely that Blackwell will be tagged with 10.0 (SM100), there is still no evidence to suggest that definitely will be tagged 10.0 until either NVIDIA releases the tech specs in detail, or the next version of CUDA supporting Blackwell (likely CUDA 12.5) comes out.

NVIDIA has already indicated next generation Tensor Cores (because of FP4 math), but not much more about the underlying GPU itself, unlike previous years.

Reference on CUDA architectures and compute capability: https://arnon.dk/matching-sm-architectures-arch-and-gencode-for-various-nvidia-cards/

References already in the page (none of which make any mention of the Blackwell arch tag / compute capability):

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/technologies/blackwell-architecture/

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/tensor-cores/#blackwell

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-blackwell-platform-arrives-to-power-a-new-era-of-computing

https://investor.nvidia.com/events-and-presentations/presentations/presentation-details/2023/NVIDIA-Investor-Presentation-October-2023/default.aspx

128.61.160.106 (talk) 17:05, 25 March 2024 (UTC)