Chip comparison
Cambricon MLU370-X8 vs Google TPU v7 (Ironwood)
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 | Cambricon MLU370-X8 | Google TPU v7 (Ironwood) |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | TSMC N7 | — |
| TDP | 250 W | 700 W |
| Memory | 48 GB LPDDR5 | 192 GB HBM3e |
| Memory bandwidth | — | 7,400 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | 96 TFLOPS | — |
| BF16 (dense) | — | 4,614 TFLOPS |
| FP8 (dense) | — | 9,228 TFLOPS |
| INT8 (dense) | 256 TOPS | — |
| Form factor | PCIe | OAM (Ironwood pod, up to 9,216 chips) |
| Announced | 2022-03-25 | 2025-04-09 |
| Released | — | 2025-12-01 |
Robots running Cambricon MLU370-X8
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Common questions
Cambricon MLU370-X8 vs Google TPU v7 (Ironwood): which is faster for training?
Google TPU v7 (Ironwood) has 96.13x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (Cambricon MLU370-X8: 96 TFLOPS; Google TPU v7 (Ironwood): 9,228 TFLOPS). Real-world training speed also depends on memory bandwidth, interconnect, and software stack: see the spec diff for those inputs.
Cambricon MLU370-X8 vs Google TPU v7 (Ironwood): which has more memory?
Google TPU v7 (Ironwood) carries more HBM (Cambricon MLU370-X8: 48 GB LPDDR5; Google TPU v7 (Ironwood): 192 GB HBM3e). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
Cambricon MLU370-X8 vs Google TPU v7 (Ironwood): which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: Cambricon MLU370-X8 0.38 (96 ÷ 250 W); Google TPU v7 (Ironwood) 13.18 (9,228 ÷ 700 W). Google TPU v7 (Ironwood) wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.
See also: every chip comparison · Cambricon MLU370-X8 full page · Google TPU v7 (Ironwood) full page.