How to read this page. Each section starts Simple, then goes to a Deep dive: stop wherever you have what you need. The small numbers are sources: click one to open the original document. Where the maker has not published a figure -- a price, a die size, a factory address -- this page says so rather than estimate it.
1.At a glance
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Vera Rubin is NVIDIA’s full-stack platform pairing its new Vera CPU with its Rubin GPU, sold rack-scale as Vera Rubin NVL72 — 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs. NVIDIA declared it in full production on 31 May 2026 1.
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NVIDIA’s own newsroom describes the platform as “seven breakthrough chips, five racks, one giant supercomputer” 2: Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, NVLink 6 Switch, ConnectX-9 SuperNIC, BlueField-4 DPU, Spectrum-6 Ethernet switch, and NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX, detailed separately in August 2026.
2.Launch and history
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Vera Rubin moved from a roadmap slide to a shipping platform over roughly 14 months — first named at GTC 2025, expanded at CES and GTC 2026, and declared in full production by the end of May 2026.
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First named 18 March 2025 at GTC, honouring astronomer Vera Rubin 3. A specialised inference-focused GPU variant, Rubin CPX, followed 9 September 2025 4. NVIDIA declared the Rubin platform in full production at CES on 5 January 2026 5, then formally launched Vera Rubin as the complete platform at GTC on 16 March 2026 2. The Vera CPU itself was unveiled 31 May 2026, the same day NVIDIA declared Vera Rubin in full production, with system availability from partners “starting this fall” (autumn 2026) 61. A scientific-computing variant followed at ISC High Performance on 22 June 2026 7.
3.What’s inside it
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Each Vera CPU pairs with Rubin GPUs over a coherent link running at 1.8 TB/s; a full Vera Rubin NVL72 rack connects 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs over sixth-generation NVLink 62.
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The Vera CPU uses 88 custom NVIDIA “Olympus” cores, running 176 threads via NVIDIA Spatial Multithreading, with up to 1.5TB of LPDDR5X memory at up to 1.2 TB/s bandwidth 6. It connects to its paired Rubin GPU over NVLink-C2C at up to 1.8 TB/s 6. NVIDIA states Vera delivers “1.8x faster task completion compared with x86 CPUs” 6 and names it the direct successor to Grace, which NVIDIA says has shipped “nearly 2.5 million” units to date 6. A separate CPU-only configuration, a “Vera CPU Rack” of 256 Vera CPUs, is also referenced on NVIDIA’s platform page 2. The Rubin GPU itself is covered on its own page.
4.Full spec table
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A Vera Rubin NVL72 rack holds 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs; a Rubin CPX variant of the rack claims 8 exaflops of AI performance and 1.7 PB/s of memory bandwidth 4.
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| Spec | Vera CPU | Vera Rubin NVL72 (rack) |
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| Cores | 88 custom “Olympus,” 176 threads | 72 GPUs + 36 CPUs |
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| Memory | Up to 1.5TB LPDDR5X | Rubin GPU memory (see Rubin page) |
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| Memory bandwidth | Up to 1.2 TB/s | — |
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| CPU-GPU link | NVLink-C2C, 1.8 TB/s | — |
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| GPU interconnect | — | NVLink 6 |
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| Rubin CPX variant (rack) | 8 exaflops AI performance, 1.7 PB/s memory bandwidth |
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Vera CPU figures per NVIDIA’s Vera unveiling 6; Rubin CPX rack figures per NVIDIA’s Rubin CPX announcement 4. NVIDIA has not published a single consolidated Vera Rubin NVL72 spec sheet covering GPU-side FLOPS at the rack level in the sources checked; those figures, once published, will be added here rather than estimated.
5.Where it’s made
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NVIDIA has not published where Vera or Rubin are manufactured, or on what process node. This page does not guess.
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No NVIDIA source found — newsroom, developer blog, or investor material — names a foundry or process node for either the Vera CPU or the Rubin GPU as of September 2026. This matches the pattern for the whole Rubin generation: NVIDIA has disclosed architecture and performance details well ahead of manufacturing details.
6.Which systems use it
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Cloud partners named in NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin full-production release include Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, CoreWeave, Lambda, IBM Cloud, Firmus, GMI Cloud, IREN, Nebius, Nscale and Vultr 1; NVIDIA’s broader Vera Rubin platform materials additionally name AWS, Google Cloud, Crusoe and Together AI 2.
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System builders and manufacturing partners named in the full-production release include Dell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo, Supermicro, Foxconn, Wistron, Wiwynn, Pegatron, Compal, Inventec, ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI, Quanta/QCT, NetApp, VAST Data and WEKA 1; Cisco is named as an OEM partner in NVIDIA’s wider Vera Rubin platform materials 2. Science and HPC partners named for the scientific-computing variant include the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (system named “Blue Lion,” targeted 2027), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/DOE (“Doudna”), and Los Alamos National Laboratory (“Mission,” “Vision,” “Veritas”) 7.
7.Official pricing
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No official NVIDIA pricing exists for Vera, Rubin or Vera Rubin at any level — chip, rack, or system — as of September 2026.
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No NVIDIA source and no partner’s own pricing page publishes a Vera Rubin figure as of this check. Any dollar figures reported elsewhere for Vera Rubin hardware are analyst cost modelling, not an NVIDIA or partner disclosure, and are not repeated on this page.
9.What came before, what came next
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Came before: Grace Blackwell (GB300 NVL72). Comes after: an architecture NVIDIA has named “Feynman,” paired with a new CPU codenamed “Rosa” 8.
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NVIDIA’s Rubin platform page names Grace Blackwell as the generation Vera Rubin succeeds 5. A larger rack configuration — referred to at GTC 2025 as “Rubin Ultra” and a 144-GPU NVL144 rack — is targeted for the second half of 2027; the exact wording around its timing is not fully consistent across NVIDIA’s own GTC 2025 material, so this page treats it as an H2 2027 roadmap item pending a clearer official statement 3. Beyond that, NVIDIA named its next full architecture generation Feynman at GTC 2026, with no official year yet attached 8.
10.Hidden in plain sight
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NVIDIA has now named two consecutive generations after women scientists: Vera Rubin, who found the first strong evidence for dark matter, and “Rosa,” the CPU codename honouring Rosalind Franklin.
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NVIDIA’s own GTC 2025 keynote coverage states plainly: “Paying tribute to astronomer Vera Rubin, Huang outlined a roadmap…” 3. After years of naming data-center architectures after male scientists (Pascal, Volta, Turing, Ampere, Hopper, Blackwell), Vera Rubin is the first named for a woman — and NVIDIA confirmed at GTC 2026 that the next generation’s CPU is codenamed Rosa, after chemist Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray diffraction work was critical to discovering the structure of DNA 8. Two in a row looks like a deliberate pattern, not a one-off tribute.