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NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip · Hopper

990 gigaflops of dense BF16 compute per watt, at 1,000 W

Shipped 28 May 2023; shipped by the first date promised. Epoch AI names it at no AI data center and 10 GPU clusters.

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Each figure in NVIDIA’s own words

one chip, dense compute; memory is high-bandwidth memory
BF16, dense
990 TFLOPS BFLOAT16 Tensor Core 1,979 teraFLOPS* | 990 teraFLOPS NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip datasheet (Mar 2025)
FP8, dense
1,979 TFLOPS FP8 Tensor Core 3,958 teraFLOPS* | 1,979 teraFLOPS NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip datasheet (Mar 2025)
Memory
96 GB High-bandwidth memory (HBM) size 96GB HBM3 | 144GB HBM3e NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip datasheet (Mar 2025)
Memory bandwidth
4 TB/s Memory bandwidth Up to 4TB/s | Up to 4.9TB/s NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip datasheet (Mar 2025)
Maximum power
1,000 W Configurable 450 to 1000W (Memory + CPU + GPU) NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip datasheet (Mar 2025)
Compute per watt
990 GFLOPS/Wdense BF16 over maximum power; 1,979 GFLOPS/W at FP8

Figures are for the first GH200 with 96GB HBM3 (4 TB/s), which matches the 2023 production date; the later HBM3e version has 144GB and 4.9 TB/s. The datasheet gives sparse and dense; dense is used. Power is for the whole module (memory, CPU and GPU).

2 dated promises and the shipment

each date links to the page it is quoted from
  1. 22 Mar 2022 Promised Grace Hopper Superchip expected to be available in the first half of 2023 in the first half of 2023. Both it and the Grace Hopper Superchip are expected to be available in the first half of 2023. NVIDIA Introduces Grace CPU Superchip
  2. 28 May 2023 Promised systems with GH200 expected to be available beginning later this year in 2023. Systems with GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips are expected to be available beginning later this year. NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips Designed for Accelerated Generative AI Enter Full Production
  3. 28 May 2023 Shipped: GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip in full production. today announced that the NVIDIA® GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip is in full production NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips Designed for Accelerated Generative AI Enter Full Production

Named at no AI data center Epoch AI tracks

H100-equivalents and power are the whole site’s today, with every chip it holds

53,508 chips in 10 GPU clusters

Epoch AI’s list of AI supercomputers, which stops in July 2025
GPU clusters with this chip
ClusterOwnerCountryChipsFirst operational
Jupiter, Jülich EuroHPC JU,Julich Supercomputing Center Germany 23,536 2025-06-10
Alps Supercomputer Phase 2 ETH Domain Switzerland 10,752 2024-09-17
University of Bristol Isambard-AI UK Research and Innovation United Kingdom 5,448 2025-06-15
ExxonMobil Discovery 6 ExxonMobil United States of America 4,032 2025-06-15
CEA EXA1-HE Phase 3 French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) France 2,688 2025-06-15
Los Alamos NL Venado US Department of Energy United States of America 2,560 2024-04-16
CEA EXA1-HE Phase 2 French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) France 1,908 2024-04-17
JCAHPC Miyabi Joint Center for Advanced High Performance Computing (JCAHPC) Japan 1,120 2025-01-15
NVIDIA Helios Nvidia Not given 1,024 2023-11-15
AGH Cyfronet Helios AGH University of Krakow Poland 440 2024-06-01

Epoch AI’s names for this chip: NVIDIA GH200.

Other NVIDIA chips

  • Tesla V100 SXM2 417 gigaflops of dense FP16 compute per watt, at 300 W
  • A100 SXM 80GB 780 gigaflops of dense BF16 compute per watt, at 400 W
  • H100 SXM 1,414 gigaflops of dense BF16 compute per watt, at 700 W
  • H200 SXM 1,414 gigaflops of dense BF16 compute per watt, at 700 W
  • B200 2,200 gigaflops of dense BF16 compute per watt, at 1,000 W
  • GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip 5,000 teraflops of dense BF16 compute a chip; NVIDIA publishes no power figure
  • B300 (Blackwell Ultra) 2,000 gigaflops of dense BF16 compute per watt, at 1,100 W
  • Rubin GPU 4,000 teraflops of dense BF16 compute a chip; NVIDIA publishes no power figure