Chip comparison
AWS Inferentia 2 vs NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU
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 | NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | TSMC N7 | TSMC 12FFN |
| Transistors (B) | — | 21.1 |
| Die size | — | 815 mm² |
| TDP | 250 W | 300 W |
| Memory | 32 GB HBM3 | 32 GB HBM2 |
| Memory bandwidth | 820 GB/s | 900 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | — | 125 TFLOPS |
| BF16 (dense) | 190 TFLOPS | — |
| FP8 (dense) | 380 TFLOPS | — |
| Form factor | Inf2 EC2 instance | SXM2 / PCIe |
| Announced | 2022-12-01 | 2017-05-10 |
| Released | 2023-04-01 | 2017-12-01 |
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Common questions
AWS Inferentia 2 vs NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU: which is faster for training?
AWS Inferentia 2 has 3.04x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (AWS Inferentia 2: 380 TFLOPS; NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU: 125 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 NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU: which has more memory?
NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU carries more HBM (AWS Inferentia 2: 32 GB HBM3; NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU: 32 GB HBM2). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
AWS Inferentia 2 vs NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: AWS Inferentia 2 1.52 (380 ÷ 250 W); NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU 0.42 (125 ÷ 300 W). AWS Inferentia 2 wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.
See also: every chip comparison · AWS Inferentia 2 full page · NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU full page.