Chip comparison
AWS Inferentia 2 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.
| Field | AWS Inferentia 2 | Huawei Ascend 910B |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | TSMC N7 | SMIC N+2 (~7nm) |
| TDP | 250 W | 400 W |
| Memory | 32 GB HBM3 | 64 GB HBM2e |
| Memory bandwidth | 820 GB/s | 1,600 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | — | 400 TFLOPS |
| BF16 (dense) | 190 TFLOPS | 400 TFLOPS |
| FP8 (dense) | 380 TFLOPS | — |
| INT8 (dense) | — | 800 TOPS |
| Form factor | Inf2 EC2 instance | OAM (Atlas 300T A2) |
| Announced | 2022-12-01 | 2023-08-01 |
| Released | 2023-04-01 | 2023-08-01 |
Robots running AWS Inferentia 2
No robots publicly running it yet.
Robots running Huawei Ascend 910B
Data centers with AWS Inferentia 2
No data centers publicly running it yet.
Data centers with Huawei Ascend 910B
Common questions
AWS Inferentia 2 vs Huawei Ascend 910B: which is faster for training?
Huawei Ascend 910B has 1.05x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (AWS Inferentia 2: 380 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.
AWS Inferentia 2 vs Huawei Ascend 910B: which has more memory?
Huawei Ascend 910B carries more HBM (AWS Inferentia 2: 32 GB HBM3; Huawei Ascend 910B: 64 GB HBM2e). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
AWS Inferentia 2 vs Huawei Ascend 910B: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: AWS Inferentia 2 1.52 (380 ÷ 250 W); Huawei Ascend 910B 1.00 (400 ÷ 400 W). AWS Inferentia 2 wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.
AWS Inferentia 2 vs Huawei Ascend 910B: which is more widely used?
AWS Inferentia 2: 0 robots and 0 data centers 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 · AWS Inferentia 2 full page · Huawei Ascend 910B full page.