NVIDIA's Vera Rubin Hits Production: 10x Throughput Per Megawatt, 1/10th Token Cost
NVIDIA Blog · rss · 2026-07-21
NVIDIA announced that its next-generation computing architecture, Vera Rubin, has ramped into production, delivering massive leaps in performance and energy efficiency.
Core Performance & Architecture:
- Extreme Efficiency: In a DeepSeek-R1 benchmark run on CoreWeave, Vera Rubin NVL72 achieved 10x more throughput per megawatt compared to Grace Blackwell NVL72, reducing the cost per million tokens to one-tenth.
- Extreme Co-Design: The platform integrates seven chips and five rack trays (including Vera CPU, Spectrum-6 switches) as a single system. The new Vera CPU is optimized for agentic workloads with 2x single-threaded performance.
- Networking & Cooling: The 6th-gen NVLink delivers over 2x throughput. The cable-, fan-, and hose-free tray design cuts assembly time to one minute, and high-temperature dry cooling saves millions of gallons of water annually.
Ecosystem & Partnerships:
- Partners including CoreWeave, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud are already deploying the infrastructure.
- Microsoft and Mistral expanded their partnership to build an open-model ecosystem for Sovereign AI in Europe using tens of thousands of Vera Rubin GPUs.
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