Vera Rubin

Vera Rubin is Nvidia’s next generation of AI hardware, following Blackwell. Early benchmarks pointed to a large jump in efficiency, roughly ten times more output for the same electricity in one test, which is the kind of gain that eases the AI industry’s growing power problem.

For the last two years the AI story has quietly been an energy story: power, not chips, is often the thing operators cannot get enough of. That is why “performance per watt” is the figure Nvidia keeps putting front and centre.