GB200 NVL72

Where the book uses it

• Chapter 4 — One Rack

  How a datacenter is actually built, from a converted factory in Memphis to a greenfield campus in Texas, and what the clock from first ground to first power really measures.

Sources that use it

• Harsh Singh Banwait, “NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 on CoreWeave: 10x More Tokens Per Megawatt Than Blackwell,” CoreWeave blog, 21 July 2026 (CoreWeave’s own measurement, on DeepSeek R1: “At a matched interactivity target, Vera Rubin NVL72 generated 10x tokens-per-second per megawatt compared to NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 on the same DeepSeek R1 workload”; the conditions, “with all major, state-of-the-art inference optimizations turned on,” among them “large-scale expert parallelism, NVFP4 precision, multi-token prediction, and disaggregated prefill and decode”; the page’s other wording of the result, “up to 10x higher tokens per megawatt”; what it means for customers, in the company’s words: “run far more reasoning-model traffic within the same power budget or run the same traffic on far less power”; CoreWeave sells the capacity it measured, and NVIDIA’s blog of the same day relays the figure as its own platform’s; the comparison on both systems, “This evaluation compares the performance on each platform with all major, state-of-the-art inference optimizations turned on”; read in the page as served in October 2026, which carries its publication date). In the Sources
• NVIDIA, “Hardware — NVIDIA DGX GB Rack Scale Systems User Guide” (GB200 NVL72: 72 GPUs, 36 CPUs, 18 compute trays, 9 NVLink switch trays; approximately 120 kW), accessed 29 August 2026. In the Sources
• NVIDIA, “NVIDIA GB200 NVL72” (product page: 72 Blackwell GPUs and 36 Grace CPUs, liquid-cooled). In the Sources
• Dylan Patel et al., “GB200 Hardware Architecture — Component Supply Chain & BOM,” SemiAnalysis, 17 July 2024 (“123.6kW per NVL72 is the total power draw”; H100 air-cooled racks about 40 kW; general-purpose CPU racks up to 12 kW; of the GB200 NVL72 at about 120 kW a rack: “most datacenter infrastructure cannot support this high of a rack density even with direct-to-chip liquid cooling”). In the Sources
• Epoch AI, “AI Data Centers Documentation – Methodology,” data documentation page, read in the Library copy of 2 November 2025 (on counting units: “There is also a confusing relationship between Grace-Blackwell ‘superchips’ like the GB200, which comprise two B200 GPUs, and the GB200 NVL72 server, which is the equivalent of 36 GB200s, but contains 72 B200 GPUs”). In the Sources

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Related terms

• One machine
• Blackwell
• GB300
• Scale-up
• 122 days
• Abilene
• Accelerator
• Colossus
• CPU
• GPU
• Greenfield
• H100