Chip comparison
AMD Instinct MI250X vs Huawei Ascend 910D
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.
| Field | AMD Instinct MI250X | Huawei Ascend 910D |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | TSMC N6 | SMIC N+2 (~7nm) |
| TDP | 560 W | 800 W |
| Memory | 128 GB HBM2e | 192 GB HBM3 |
| Memory bandwidth | 3,200 GB/s | 4,000 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | 383 TFLOPS | 1,200 TFLOPS |
| BF16 (dense) | 383 TFLOPS | 1,200 TFLOPS |
| FP8 (dense) | — | 2,400 TFLOPS |
| INT8 (dense) | 383 TOPS | — |
| Form factor | OAM | OAM |
| Announced | 2021-11-08 | 2025-04-01 |
| Released | 2022-06-01 | 2025-12-01 |
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Common questions
AMD Instinct MI250X vs Huawei Ascend 910D: which is faster for training?
Huawei Ascend 910D has 6.27x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (AMD Instinct MI250X: 383 TFLOPS; Huawei Ascend 910D: 2,400 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 910D: which has more memory?
Huawei Ascend 910D carries more HBM (AMD Instinct MI250X: 128 GB HBM2e; Huawei Ascend 910D: 192 GB HBM3). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
AMD Instinct MI250X vs Huawei Ascend 910D: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: AMD Instinct MI250X 0.68 (383 ÷ 560 W); Huawei Ascend 910D 3.00 (2,400 ÷ 800 W). Huawei Ascend 910D 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 910D full page.