On the near horizon — H2 2025 — Nvidia will release Blackwell Ultra, a GPU that’ll come in several configurations. A single Ultra chip will offer the same 20 petaflops of AI performance as Blackwell, but with 288GB of memory — up from 192GB in vanilla Blackwell.

This year’s Blackwell Ultra isn’t what we originally expected, when Nvidia said last year that it would begin producing new AI chips on a yearly cadence, faster than ever before. But Nvidia quickly moved on from Blackwell Ultra during today’s GDC keynote to reveal its next architecture,

Nvidia on Wednesday introduced its next-generation GPU called Blackwell Ultra, and also announced new systems based on the chipset. The Blackwell Ultra GPU is in production and will succeed the current generation GPU called Blackwell, said Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing, in a press briefing call.