Chip comparison
AMD Instinct MI350 series 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.
| Field | AMD Instinct MI350 series | Huawei Ascend 910C |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | TSMC N3 (chiplet) | SMIC N+2 (~7nm) |
| TDP | 1000 W | 500 W |
| Memory | 288 GB HBM3e | 128 GB HBM2e |
| Memory bandwidth | 8,000 GB/s | 3,200 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | 2,300 TFLOPS | 800 TFLOPS |
| BF16 (dense) | 2,300 TFLOPS | 800 TFLOPS |
| FP8 (dense) | 4,600 TFLOPS | — |
| INT8 (dense) | 4,600 TOPS | 1,600 TOPS |
| Form factor | OAM | OAM |
| Announced | 2025-06-12 | 2024-09-19 |
| Released | 2025-10-01 | 2025-01-01 |
Robots running AMD Instinct MI350 series
No robots publicly running it yet.
Robots running Huawei Ascend 910C
No robots publicly running it yet.
Data centers with AMD Instinct MI350 series
Data centers with Huawei Ascend 910C
No data centers publicly running it yet.
Common questions
AMD Instinct MI350 series vs Huawei Ascend 910C: which is faster for training?
AMD Instinct MI350 series has 5.75x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (AMD Instinct MI350 series: 4,600 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 MI350 series vs Huawei Ascend 910C: which has more memory?
AMD Instinct MI350 series carries more HBM (AMD Instinct MI350 series: 288 GB HBM3e; 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 MI350 series vs Huawei Ascend 910C: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: AMD Instinct MI350 series 4.60 (4,600 ÷ 1000 W); Huawei Ascend 910C 1.60 (800 ÷ 500 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 910C: which is more widely used?
AMD Instinct MI350 series: 0 robots and 1 data center publicly running it. Huawei Ascend 910C: 0 robots and 0 data centers. 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 910C full page.