Chip comparison
Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3) 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 | Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3) | Google TPU v7 (Ironwood) |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | TSMC N5 | — |
| Transistors (B) | 4000 | — |
| Die size | 46225 mm² | — |
| TDP | 23000 W | 700 W |
| Memory | 44 GB on-die SRAM | 192 GB HBM3e |
| Memory bandwidth | 21,000,000 GB/s | 7,400 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | 62,500 TFLOPS | — |
| BF16 (dense) | — | 4,614 TFLOPS |
| FP8 (dense) | — | 9,228 TFLOPS |
| Form factor | wafer-scale (single-wafer system) | OAM (Ironwood pod, up to 9,216 chips) |
| Announced | 2024-03-13 | 2025-04-09 |
| Released | 2024-04-01 | 2025-12-01 |
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Common questions
Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3) vs Google TPU v7 (Ironwood): which is faster for training?
Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3) has 6.77x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3): 62,500 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.
Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3) vs Google TPU v7 (Ironwood): which has more memory?
Google TPU v7 (Ironwood) carries more HBM (Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3): 44 GB on-die SRAM; 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.
Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3) vs Google TPU v7 (Ironwood): which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3) 2.72 (62,500 ÷ 23000 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 · Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3) full page · Google TPU v7 (Ironwood) full page.