NVIDIA’s DGX B200 “Blackwell” AI server has been listed online by server solution provider Broadberry, with a rather astonishing price tag.
NVIDIA’s Blackwell DGX B200 System Is Going To Be An Expensive Venture For AI Firms, As Base-Scale System Gets Listed For A Hefty Price
Team Green’s next-gen Blackwell AI architecture has seen the spotlight from the industry, mainly due to how the platform is said to feature performance that the markets have never witnessed in the past.
Not only NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang has immensely praised Blackwell, but its rapid adoption from mainstream tech giants, such as Microsoft and Meta, shows that NVIDIA’s new AI product portfolio is ready to disrupt the markets. Interestingly, Broadberry has listed a Blackwell DGX B200 AI system, starting at around half a million dollars, which is quite surprising.
NVIDIA intends to sell multiple Blackwell AI systems, but the product targeted for the wider segment of the market is the DGX B200. Each DGX B200 uses eight B200 GPUs to deliver up to 1.4 TB of GPU memory with an HBM3E memory bandwidth of up to 64 TB/s.
Based on information from NVIDIA, the DGX B200 can offer up to 72 petaFLOPS of training performance and 144 petaFLOPS of inference performance, which is a huge upgrade compared to its Hopper generation counterpart. Following are the full specs of what you get with the system:
- Built with eight NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
- GPU Memory 1,440GB total, 64TB/s HBM3e bandwidth
- 72 petaFLOPS FP8 training and 144 petaFLOPS FP4 inference
- NVIDIA networking
- Foundation of NVIDIA DGX BasePOD and NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD
- Includes NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA Base Command™ software
The listing at Broadberry has put a price tag of $515,410.43 on the Blackwell DGX B200 AI system, with configuration options as well, mainly dealing with after-sale services. This is the first instance where we have seen NVIDIA’s Blackwell AI product surface over the internet in the form of a retail listing, and while we are currently unaware of the supply situation, it is said that Blackwell will be initially confined, with a larger portion of shipments slated for the first quarter of next year.
Just recently, NVIDIA delivered their first batch of the DGX B200 AI system to OpenAI, showing the exclusive relations both firms have, so it won’t be wrong to say that the first batch of DGX B200 systems is already out in the markets, although we still are unclear about Broadberry’s inventory, or maybe at the time this post goes live, the stock runs out. Regardless of it, NVIDIA’s Blackwell will usher in a new era of “AI gold rush”, ultimately leading the next-gen architecture as Team Green’s most successful product.
