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Verified results show a new architecture far exceeding its maker's own claims

development2026-09-15

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Verified agentic inference results showed Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 delivering up to 67 times the throughput per total-cost dollar of its predecessor and seven times the tokens per megawatt against the threefold Huang had claimed, prompting the observation that he needs to stop sandbagging.

Reported metric: 67x per TCO dollar

Reporting date: 2026-09-15 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to September 15, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to September 15, 2026

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NVIDIA

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Compute is recast as a fungible, durable, rentable asset

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Welcome to September 15, 2026

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Verified results show a new architecture far exceeding its maker's own claims
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Reporting date: 2026-09-15
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-09-15-sixty-seven-times-the-throughput-per-dollar
Claim: Verified agentic inference results showed Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 delivering up to 67 times the throughput per total-cost dollar of its predecessor and seven times the tokens per megawatt against the threefold Huang had claimed, prompting the observation that he needs to stop sandbagging.
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- Welcome to September 15, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-september-15-2026
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