# Nvidia Blackwell GPU

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-blackwell-gpu/

7 people recommended Nvidia Blackwell GPU in Hacker News comments, 2 had mixed feelings and 9 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 12 months, in 7 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** More people criticize it than recommend it. People recommend Blackwell GPUs for running local AI models quickly, with high prices and very high power draw as the main drawbacks.

Summary written by Claude from the comments below.

## What people warn about

- High prices and rising costs (2 comments in the sample): "whose Blackwell gen prices are now up 25% from launch, with more increases to come" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225916)) "Single 96GB Blackwell" is still $15K+ worth of hardware." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895194))
- Very high power draw and electricity cost (2 comments in the sample): "they haven't faced any actual competitive pressure against things like power draws in the multi-kilowatt range for the Blackwells" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46626711)) "using online SOTA models would had caught it earlier without usd12k and monthly electricity being spent" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48584327))
- Small uplift over previous generation (2 comments in the sample): "Blackwell was already kind of a dud on performance uplift from Ada beyond the new LLM features" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49673815)) "Blackwell is the last generation Nvidia didn't optimize specifically for inference." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781657))

## Why people recommend it

- Runs local AI models well (4 comments in the sample): "If you spend twice what I did and go Nvidia you should have nearly no issues running any models." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581978)) "for inference the difference widens a bunch makes a lot more sense to go with Blackwell" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49655946)) "it is pretty cool to get beaten in a programming contest by my own video card" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895624))

## Other graphics cards people recommend

- [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090/): 88 recommend, 26 mixed, 18 criticize
- [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090/): 73 recommend, 26 mixed, 34 criticize
- [NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-rtx-pro-6000/): 58 recommend, 15 mixed, 19 criticize
- [AMD Radeon GPU](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amd-gpus/): 43 recommend, 4 mixed, 29 criticize

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/)

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Nvidia Blackwell GPU", https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-blackwell-gpu/ (7 recommend, 2 mixed, 9 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.