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NVIDIA rubin GPU reaches 50 PFLOPS NVFP4 and 22 TB/s HBM4

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NVIDIA says the Rubin GPU delivers up to 10x more agentic throughput per unit of energy than Blackwell, with 50 PFLOPS NVFP4 and 22 TB/s HBM4 per GPU.

Picture from awesomeagents.ai
Picture from awesomeagents.ai
NVIDIA Rubin GPU
transistors336 billion
streaming multiprocessors224
Tensor Cores896
memory288 GB
memory bandwidth22 TB/s
NVFP4 performanceup to 50 petaflops
NVLink bandwidth3,600 GB/s

The architecture note puts 50 PFLOPS NVFP4 on the Rubin GPU. That figure does not prove a rack can sustain the rate under production power, or that the 288 GB HBM4 pool will hold the KV cache for a multitrillion-parameter model without offload.

The constraint is not die count. It is the power envelope around 224 streaming multiprocessors, 896 Tensor Cores, and a third-generation Transformer Engine. If the 40% GPU-density claim from DSX MaxLPS holds, the buyer gets more inference per budgeted watt, but the fab still has to prove that the two reticle-limited dies and NV-HBI link keep clocks and yield stable at scale.

The note leaves out TDP, process node, training PFLOPS, and a measured token cost. Those are the numbers that decide whether the 10x agentic throughput claim is a design target or a billable workload.

The Rubin GPU specs are stated in NVIDIA's architecture note. The 10x agentic throughput figure is a design target, not a measured result. TDP and token cost are not stated.

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October 25, 2026 · 4 min
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