Vera Rubin or Blackwell? We updated our comparison with NVIDIA’s latest specs.
Where Vera Rubin earns its place:
• Agents that plan across many steps and hold memory for the whole task.
• Long-context serving: coding assistants over a full repository, research agents, document and log analysis at a million tokens.
• Mixture-of-experts at production scale, where expert routing leans on the interconnect.
• High-volume copilots and search, where cost per token decides the margin.
Where Blackwell stays the better buy:
• Training and fine-tuning that cannot wait, on a mature software stack shipping in volume today.
• Dense, short-context inference: chatbots, classification, ranking, recommendation, embeddings, moderation.
• Cost-sensitive inference across fraud detection, medical imaging, industrial vision, and transcoding.
The two run side by side. Axe Compute Build delivers dedicated, single-tenant clusters on Vera Rubin NVL72, GB300 NVL72, and B300, on a 36 or 60 month term with a committed delivery date and a mid-term GPU upgrade path, so capacity can move to Rubin as the workload calls for it.
Full report in the replies.