Dell executives partially revealed NVIDIA’s plans for the release of new devices. It turned out that in 2025, NVIDIA intends to release a new B200 accelerator with high power consumption.
Previously, NVIDIA’s roadmap for last year did not mention the B200 accelerator. It is worth noting that there is a difference between the B200 and the GB200. The GB200 has been confirmed by NVIDIA as a GPU. At the same time, B200 seems to be the name of the end device.
In its 2023 roadmap, the company only mentioned the B100 as a product, but has already introduced the GB200 and GB200NVL GPUs. Although the B200 device has not been officially mentioned by the manufacturer, a Dell executive claims that such a product does exist and is expected to hit the market next year.
Dell COO Jeff Clarke is confident that their engineering teams will be ready for such a device. He discusses what is required for a power density of 1,000 watts, hinting at the possible increase in power consumption of future GPUs and data center accelerators. In fact, he says it will happen as early as next year with the B200. For comparison, the current H100 has a maximum power consumption of 700W and that’s just for the SXM variant.
“[…] We’re excited about what’s happening with the B100 and B200, and we think there’s another opportunity here to highlight the confidence of the engineers. Our thermal performance: You really don’t need direct liquid cooling to achieve 1000W power density on a GPU.
That will happen next year with the B200. An opportunity for us to really showcase our technology and how fast we can move and the work we’ve done as an industry leader to use our expertise to make liquid cooling efficient at scale […]”said Jeff Clarke.
Dell and NVIDIA declined to comment on the report. However, it should be remembered that NVIDIA intends to hold the GTC 2024 conference in 2 weeks. The company is likely to announce new solutions for data centers during this event.
Source: videocardz
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