Chip comparison
Google TPU v5e vs Huawei Ascend 910D
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 | Google TPU v5e | Huawei Ascend 910D |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | — | SMIC N+2 (~7nm) |
| TDP | 170 W | 800 W |
| Memory | 16 GB HBM2 | 192 GB HBM3 |
| Memory bandwidth | 819 GB/s | 4,000 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | — | 1,200 TFLOPS |
| BF16 (dense) | 197 TFLOPS | 1,200 TFLOPS |
| FP8 (dense) | — | 2,400 TFLOPS |
| INT8 (dense) | 393 TOPS | — |
| Form factor | OAM (v5e pod, up to 256 chips) | OAM |
| Announced | 2023-08-29 | 2025-04-01 |
| Released | 2023-11-01 | 2025-12-01 |
Robots running Google TPU v5e
No robots publicly running it yet.
Robots running Huawei Ascend 910D
No robots publicly running it yet.
Data centers with Google TPU v5e
Data centers with Huawei Ascend 910D
No data centers publicly running it yet.
Common questions
Google TPU v5e vs Huawei Ascend 910D: which is faster for training?
Huawei Ascend 910D has 12.18x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (Google TPU v5e: 197 TFLOPS; Huawei Ascend 910D: 2,400 TFLOPS). Real-world training speed also depends on memory bandwidth, interconnect, and software stack: see the spec diff for those inputs.
Google TPU v5e vs Huawei Ascend 910D: which has more memory?
Huawei Ascend 910D carries more HBM (Google TPU v5e: 16 GB HBM2; Huawei Ascend 910D: 192 GB HBM3). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
Google TPU v5e vs Huawei Ascend 910D: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: Google TPU v5e 1.16 (197 ÷ 170 W); Huawei Ascend 910D 3.00 (2,400 ÷ 800 W). Huawei Ascend 910D wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.
Google TPU v5e vs Huawei Ascend 910D: which is more widely used?
Google TPU v5e: 0 robots and 1 data center publicly running it. Huawei Ascend 910D: 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 · Google TPU v5e full page · Huawei Ascend 910D full page.