NVIDIA Rubin & 3nm Nodes
336 Billion transistors powering the Singularity.
Explore this event on the interactive timeline →NVIDIA launched the Rubin GPU architecture, fabricated on TSMC's 3-nanometer process. It represents the absolute cutting edge of the semiconductor industry, packing an incomprehensible 336 billion transistors into a single GPU package.
Key Numbers
- Transistors (2024 Blackwell)
- 208 Billion
- Transistors (2026 Rubin)
- 336 Billion
Verified Facts
- A "nanometer" is a billionth of a meter. At 3nm, the gates of these transistors are literally only a few dozen atoms wide. The industry is rapidly approaching the physical limits of atomic structure.
- The Rubin GPU jumped from the 208 billion transistors of 2024's Blackwell chip to 336 billion, maintaining the accelerating pace of Moore's Law even at hyper-scale.
- To feed this massive brain, Rubin uses advanced HBM4 (High Bandwidth Memory), allowing data to flow in and out of the chip at speeds previously thought impossible.