Up to 30x More Work Per Watt: NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Sets a New Efficiency Standard for AI Agents
NVIDIA claims Vera Rubin NVL72 delivers up to 30x more work per watt, citing OpenRouter data that agentic workloads use 15x more tokens than chat.
NVIDIA positions the Vera Rubin NVL72 as a new efficiency standard for AI agents, claiming up to 30x more work per watt. The company cites OpenRouter data showing agentic AI workloads consume 15x more tokens than a simple chat request, using a financial-research agent example that spawns sub-agents and multiple tool calls. The piece is largely a product efficiency narrative rather than independent benchmarking.
- Claims up to 30x more work per watt
- OpenRouter: agents consume 15x more tokens than chat
- Efficiency pitch targets agentic inference economics
- Example uses multi-step financial research agents
- Vendors
- NVIDIA
- Products
- Vera Rubin NVL72
- Organizations
- OpenRouter
From the original article

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.
By Shruti Koparkar · blogs.nvidia.com
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