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288 GB VRAMworkstation·Reviewed June 2026

NVIDIA B300 (Blackwell Ultra)

NVDA · HARDWARE
NVIDIA B300 (Blackwell Ultra)

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The Blackwell Ultra datacenter refresh of the B200. 288GB HBM3e per GPU, ~8 TB/s, up to 1,400W; GB300 NVL72 racks reach 1.1 ExaFLOPS FP4. The current top-end reference for large-model serving, volume-shipping since late 2025.

Released 2025·8000 GB/s memory bandwidth
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669/ 1000
BB-tier
Estimated
Throughput
500/ 500
VRAM-fit
200/ 200
Ecosystem
200/ 200
Efficiency
55/ 100

Sub-scores sum to 955 / 1000. Headline = 955 × 0.70 (Estimated-confidence discount) = 669. This is an algorithmic performance-tier score — distinct from, and often lower than, the editorial “Our verdict” below, which weighs value and real-world fit (especially for hardware we haven’t measured yet). How scoring works →

Extrapolated from 8000 GB/s bandwidth — 960.0 tok/s estimated. No measured benchmarks yet.

WORKLOAD FIT
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Plain-English: Runs 70B comfortably — snappy enough for a coding agent; vision models supported.

7B chat✓
Comfortable
14B chat✓
Comfortable
32B chat✓
Comfortable
70B chat✓
Comfortable
Coding agent✓
Comfortable
Vision (≤8B VLM)✓
Comfortable
Long context (32K)✓
Comfortable
✓Comfortable — fits with headroom
~Tight — works, no slack
△Marginal — needs aggressive quant
✗Doesn't fit usefully

Verdicts extrapolated from catalog VRAM + bandwidth + ecosystem flags. Hover any chip for the rationale. Want measured numbers? Submit your own run with runlocalai-bench --submit.

BLK · VERDICT

Our verdict

OP · Fredoline Eruo|VERIFIED JUN 18, 2026
9.2/10

What it is

The B300 is NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra — the mid-cycle datacenter upgrade over the B200, with 288GB of HBM3e per GPU (up from 192GB) and ~50% more inference throughput. In the GB300 NVL72 rack-scale form it delivers 1.1 ExaFLOPS of FP4 and roughly 1.5x the B200 system. It's been volume-shipping since September 2025 across CoreWeave, Azure, AWS, and Google.

Relevance to local AI

This is a hyperscale serving part, not something an individual buys — it belongs here as the current ceiling reference for 'what the frontier labs serve giant models on,' against which local hardware is contextualized. The 288GB-per-GPU figure is the useful anchor: it's why frontier models are trained/served on these and why local users quantize. If you're speccing on-prem inference for a well-funded org, the B300/GB300 is the top option; for everyone else it's the line on the chart showing how far datacenter VRAM has pulled ahead of consumer.

Bottom line

The top-end datacenter reference point. Not a buyable local-AI card — included for context and for the rare on-prem org speccing frontier-scale serving.

BLK · OVERVIEW

Overview

The Blackwell Ultra datacenter refresh of the B200. 288GB HBM3e per GPU, ~8 TB/s, up to 1,400W; GB300 NVL72 racks reach 1.1 ExaFLOPS FP4. The current top-end reference for large-model serving, volume-shipping since late 2025.

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BLK · SPECS

Specs

VRAM288 GB
Power draw (peak)1400 W
Released2025
Backends
CUDA

Models that fit

Open-weight models small enough to run on NVIDIA B300 (Blackwell Ultra) with usable context.

all-MiniLM-L6-v2
0.022B · other
FLUX.1 [dev]
12B · other
Qwen 3 0.6B
0.6B · qwen
BGE Large EN v1.5
0.335B · other
Llama 4 Scout
109B · llama
Nomic Embed Text v1.5
0.137B · other
Kokoro 82M
0.082B · other
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
8B · llama

Frequently asked

What models can NVIDIA B300 (Blackwell Ultra) run?

With 288GB VRAM, the NVIDIA B300 (Blackwell Ultra) runs 70B models in 4-bit quantization, plus everything smaller. See the model list below for tested combinations.

Does NVIDIA B300 (Blackwell Ultra) support CUDA?

Yes — NVIDIA B300 (Blackwell Ultra) is an NVIDIA card with full CUDA support, the most mature local-AI backend. llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, and ExLlamaV2 all run natively.

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