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Understanding how to optimize token cost requires looking at the equation for calculating cost per million tokens. In this equation, many enterprises evaluating AI infrastructure focus on the numerator: the cost per GPU per hour. For cloud deployments, this is the hourly rate paid to a cloud provider; for on-premises deployments, it’s the effective hourly cost derived from amortizing owned infrastructure. The real key to reducing token cost, however, lies in the denominator: maximizing the delivered token output. That denominator carries two business implications. Minimize token cost: When thi

The following data for the DeepSeek-R1 AI model demonstrates the difference between theoretical and actual business outcomes. Looking at compute cost alone, the NVIDIA Blackwell platform appears to cost roughly 2x more than NVIDIA Hopper — but compute cost says nothing about the output that investment buys. An analysis of mere FLOPS per dollar suggests a 2x NVIDIA Blackwell advantage compared with the NVIDIA Hopper architecture. However, the actual outcome is orders of magnitude different: Blackwell delivers more than 50x greater token output per watt than Hopper, resulting in nearly 35x lower

InferenceMAX v1, a new benchmark from SemiAnalysis released Monday, is the latest to highlight Blackwell’s inference leadership. It runs popular models across leading platforms, measures performance for a wide range of use cases and publishes results anyone can verify. Why do benchmarks like this matter? Because modern AI isn’t just about raw speed — it’s about efficiency and economics at scale. As models shift from one-shot replies to multistep reasoning and tool use, they generate far more tokens per query, dramatically increasing compute demands. NVIDIA’s open-source collaborations with Ope

NVIDIA doubled Blackwell performance through continuous software optimization, refining kernels, compiler paths, and inference runtimes so the same hardware delivers significantly more useful AI throughput over time. Initial gpt-oss-120b performance on an NVIDIA DGX Blackwell B200 system with the NVIDIA TensorRT LLM library was market-leading, but NVIDIA’s teams and the community have significantly optimized TensorRT LLM for open-source large language models. The TensorRT LLM v1.0 release is a major breakthrough in making large AI models faster and more responsive for everyone. Through advance