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AMD Instinct MI350 series vs Huawei Ascend 910B

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 MI350 seriesHuawei Ascend 910B
Process nodeTSMC N3 (chiplet)SMIC N+2 (~7nm)
TDP1000 W400 W
Memory288 GB HBM3e64 GB HBM2e
Memory bandwidth8,000 GB/s1,600 GB/s
FP16 (dense)2,300 TFLOPS400 TFLOPS
BF16 (dense)2,300 TFLOPS400 TFLOPS
FP8 (dense)4,600 TFLOPS
INT8 (dense)4,600 TOPS800 TOPS
Form factorOAMOAM (Atlas 300T A2)
Announced2025-06-122023-08-01
Released2025-10-012023-08-01

Robots running AMD Instinct MI350 series

No robots publicly running it yet.

Robots running Huawei Ascend 910B

Data centers with AMD Instinct MI350 series

Data centers with Huawei Ascend 910B

Common questions

AMD Instinct MI350 series vs Huawei Ascend 910B: which is faster for training?

AMD Instinct MI350 series has 11.50x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (AMD Instinct MI350 series: 4,600 TFLOPS; Huawei Ascend 910B: 400 TFLOPS). Real-world training speed also depends on memory bandwidth, interconnect, and software stack: see the spec diff for those inputs.

AMD Instinct MI350 series vs Huawei Ascend 910B: which has more memory?

AMD Instinct MI350 series carries more HBM (AMD Instinct MI350 series: 288 GB HBM3e; Huawei Ascend 910B: 64 GB HBM2e). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.

AMD Instinct MI350 series vs Huawei Ascend 910B: which is more power-efficient?

Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: AMD Instinct MI350 series 4.60 (4,600 ÷ 1000 W); Huawei Ascend 910B 1.00 (400 ÷ 400 W). AMD Instinct MI350 series wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.

AMD Instinct MI350 series vs Huawei Ascend 910B: which is more widely used?

AMD Instinct MI350 series: 0 robots and 1 data center publicly running it. Huawei Ascend 910B: 2 robots and 1 data center. Empty here means no operator has said publicly, not zero adoption in the market.

See also: every chip comparison · AMD Instinct MI350 series full page · Huawei Ascend 910B full page.