Chip comparison
Biren BR100 vs Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3)
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 | Biren BR100 | Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3) |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | TSMC N7 | TSMC N5 |
| Transistors (B) | 77 | 4000 |
| Die size | — | 46225 mm² |
| TDP | 550 W | 23000 W |
| Memory | 64 GB HBM2e | 44 GB on-die SRAM |
| Memory bandwidth | 2,300 GB/s | 21,000,000 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | 1,024 TFLOPS | 62,500 TFLOPS |
| BF16 (dense) | 1,024 TFLOPS | — |
| INT8 (dense) | 2,048 TOPS | — |
| Form factor | OAM | wafer-scale (single-wafer system) |
| Announced | 2022-08-09 | 2024-03-13 |
| Released | — | 2024-04-01 |
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Common questions
Biren BR100 vs Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3): which is faster for training?
Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3) has 61.04x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (Biren BR100: 1,024 TFLOPS; Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3): 62,500 TFLOPS). Real-world training speed also depends on memory bandwidth, interconnect, and software stack: see the spec diff for those inputs.
Biren BR100 vs Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3): which has more memory?
Biren BR100 carries more HBM (Biren BR100: 64 GB HBM2e; Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3): 44 GB on-die SRAM). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
Biren BR100 vs Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3): which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: Biren BR100 1.86 (1,024 ÷ 550 W); Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3) 2.72 (62,500 ÷ 23000 W). Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3) wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.
See also: every chip comparison · Biren BR100 full page · Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3) full page.