Chip comparison
AWS Trainium 2 vs NVIDIA A100 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 Trainium 2 | NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | TSMC N5 | TSMC N7 |
| Transistors (B) | — | 54 |
| Die size | — | 826 mm² |
| TDP | 500 W | 400 W |
| Memory | 96 GB HBM3 | 80 GB HBM2e |
| Memory bandwidth | 2,900 GB/s | 2,039 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | — | 312 TFLOPS |
| BF16 (dense) | 667 TFLOPS | 312 TFLOPS |
| FP8 (dense) | 1,300 TFLOPS | — |
| INT8 (dense) | 1,300 TOPS | 624 TOPS |
| Launch price (list) | — | $10,000 |
| Form factor | AWS Neuron 2 (Trn2 UltraServer with 64 chips per unit) | SXM4 |
| Announced | 2024-12-03 | 2020-05-14 |
| Released | 2025-01-01 | 2020-05-14 |
Robots running AWS Trainium 2
No robots publicly running it yet.
Robots running NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU
No robots publicly running it yet.
Data centers with AWS Trainium 2
Data centers with NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU
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Common questions
AWS Trainium 2 vs NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU: which is faster for training?
AWS Trainium 2 has 4.17x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (AWS Trainium 2: 1,300 TFLOPS; NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU: 312 TFLOPS). Real-world training speed also depends on memory bandwidth, interconnect, and software stack: see the spec diff for those inputs.
AWS Trainium 2 vs NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU: which has more memory?
AWS Trainium 2 carries more HBM (AWS Trainium 2: 96 GB HBM3; NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU: 80 GB HBM2e). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
AWS Trainium 2 vs NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: AWS Trainium 2 2.60 (1,300 ÷ 500 W); NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU 0.78 (312 ÷ 400 W). AWS Trainium 2 wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.
AWS Trainium 2 vs NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU: which is more widely used?
AWS Trainium 2: 0 robots and 3 data centers publicly running it. NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU: 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 · AWS Trainium 2 full page · NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU full page.