Fermi question · Technology

About how many transistors are in an NVIDIA Blackwell-architecture GPU?

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≈ 208 billion transistors

Fermi estimates are judged by scale, so a reasonable approximation can still earn a strong score.

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Scale from large modern accelerator dies, which contain hundreds of billions of transistors.

  1. Advanced GPU scale≈ 10¹¹ transistors
  2. Two large dies in one GPUroughly doubles a 100B-class die scale
  3. Estimate≈ 2 × 10¹¹ transistors

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