# Up to 30x More Work Per Watt: NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Sets a New Efficiency Standard for AI Agents

DevFeed: [Up to 30x More Work Per Watt: NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Sets a New Efficiency Standard for AI Agents](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/up-to-30x-more-work-per-watt-nvidia-vera-rubin-nvl72-sets-a-new-efficiency-standard-for-ai-agents-6964.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/vera-rubin-nvl72-efficiency-ai-agents/>)

Author: Shruti Koparkar

Published: 2026-08-24T15:00:19Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [NVIDIA Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nvidia-blog.md>)

Topics: [AI Agent](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-agent.md>), [NVIDIA Vera Rubin](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nvidia-vera-rubin.md>), [Vera Rubin NVL72](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vera-rubin-nvl72.md>), [Inference Performance](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference-performance.md>), [long-context](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/long-context.md>), [GB300 NVL72](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gb300-nvl72.md>), [Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference.md>), [benchmarking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmarking.md>), [Nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nvidia.md>)

Tags: [agentic-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-ai.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-infrastructure.md>), [gb300-nvl72](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gb300-nvl72.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [long-context](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/long-context.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [nvidia-blackwell](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nvidia-blackwell.md>), [nvidia-vera-rubin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nvidia-vera-rubin.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [think-smart](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/think-smart.md>)

## AI overview

NVIDIA reports that Vera Rubin NVL72 systems deliver up to 30x higher throughput per megawatt than GB300 NVL72 on agentic workloads measured with the SemiAnalysis AgentX workload. The article attributes the efficiency challenge to long, variable agent workflows involving tool calls, accumulated context, and sub-agents.

## Source excerpt

According to OpenRouter data, agentic AI workloads consume 15x more tokens than a simple chat request. Why? Consider what happens when an AI agent researches a company for an investment decision. The agent queries financial databases, searches news and filings, invokes a sub-agent to run peer comparisons and model valuations, then synthesizes everything into a [...]