Hands-On: Dell Pro Max Workstations Get NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Ultra

At CES 2026, we got to go hands on with the Dell Pro Max GB300 desktop. This is the big brother of the Dell Pro Max GB10, which as you could probably guess from the name, is essentially Dell's take on the NVIDIA DGX Spark concept. The GB300 carries something far more potent inside: a Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip.

If you don't pay attention to NVIDIA's datacenter hardware, you may not understand what that implies. We've covered it in the past, but the Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip combines a 72-core Armv9 (Arm Neoverse V2) Grace CPU with the titanic Blackwell Ultra GB300 GPU, which pairs two enormous GPU dice with the NV-HBI high-speed interconnect to form a single massive AI GPU with 640 tensor cores and up to 8TB/sec of memory bandwidth.

In the GB300 NVL72 racks, these chips can reportedly ...