Nvidia is starting 2026 with its earliest launch New Vera Rubin Computing PlatformRubin follows a record-breaking year for GPU predecessor Blackwell, driven by the AI boom (or bubble).
During a press briefing ahead of today’s keynote, Dion Harris, Nvidia’s senior director of HPC and AI infrastructure solutions, described Vera Rubin as “the six chips that make up an AI supercomputer.”
Those six chips include the Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, NVLink 6th Gen switch, Connect-X9 NIC, Bluefield4 DPU, and Spectrum-X 102.4T CPO. The platform will support the third generation confidential computing And, according to Nvidia, it will be the first rack-scale trusted computing platform.
Nvidia claims that the Rubin GPU is capable of delivering five times more AI training calculations than the Blackwell. The Vera Rubin architecture as a whole can train a large “mixture of experts” (MOE) AI model in the same time as Blackwell, using one-fourth the GPU and one-seventh the token cost.
Rubin’s launch was originally expected to take place later this year. Its quick arrival today comes just a few months after Nvidia reported record high data center revenue of 66 percent more than last year. This growth was driven by demand for Blackwell and Blackwell Ultra GPUs, which have set a high bar for Rubin’s success and served as a bellwether for the “AI bubble.” Products and services running on Rubin will be available from Nvidia’s partners from the second half of 2026.
