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AMD Instinct MI250X vs Huawei Ascend 910C

Side-by-side specs

Straight from each vendor's datasheet. Winner in bold: higher throughput, memory, or transistor count; lower power draw or price. Sparse (2:4) throughput roughly doubles the FP8/INT8 numbers shown.

FieldAMD Instinct MI250XHuawei Ascend 910C
Process nodeTSMC N6SMIC N+2 (~7nm)
TDP560 W500 W
Memory128 GB HBM2e128 GB HBM2e
Memory bandwidth3,200 GB/s3,200 GB/s
FP16 (dense)383 TFLOPS800 TFLOPS
BF16 (dense)383 TFLOPS800 TFLOPS
INT8 (dense)383 TOPS1,600 TOPS
Form factorOAMOAM
Announced2021-11-082024-09-19
Released2022-06-012025-01-01

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Common questions

AMD Instinct MI250X vs Huawei Ascend 910C: which is faster for training?

Huawei Ascend 910C has 2.09x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (AMD Instinct MI250X: 383 TFLOPS; Huawei Ascend 910C: 800 TFLOPS). Real-world training speed also depends on memory bandwidth, interconnect, and software stack: see the spec diff for those inputs.

AMD Instinct MI250X vs Huawei Ascend 910C: which has more memory?

Huawei Ascend 910C carries more HBM (AMD Instinct MI250X: 128 GB HBM2e; Huawei Ascend 910C: 128 GB HBM2e). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.

AMD Instinct MI250X vs Huawei Ascend 910C: which is more power-efficient?

Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: AMD Instinct MI250X 0.68 (383 ÷ 560 W); Huawei Ascend 910C 1.60 (800 ÷ 500 W). Huawei Ascend 910C wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.

See also: every chip comparison · AMD Instinct MI250X full page · Huawei Ascend 910C full page.