Chip comparison
Google TPU v5p 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 v5p | Huawei Ascend 910D |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | — | SMIC N+2 (~7nm) |
| TDP | 300 W | 800 W |
| Memory | 95 GB HBM2e | 192 GB HBM3 |
| Memory bandwidth | 2,765 GB/s | 4,000 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | — | 1,200 TFLOPS |
| BF16 (dense) | 459 TFLOPS | 1,200 TFLOPS |
| FP8 (dense) | — | 2,400 TFLOPS |
| INT8 (dense) | 918 TOPS | — |
| Form factor | OAM (per-chip in v5p pod) | OAM |
| Announced | 2023-12-06 | 2025-04-01 |
| Released | 2024-01-01 | 2025-12-01 |
Robots running Google TPU v5p
No robots publicly running it yet.
Robots running Huawei Ascend 910D
No robots publicly running it yet.
Data centers with Google TPU v5p
Data centers with Huawei Ascend 910D
No data centers publicly running it yet.
Common questions
Google TPU v5p vs Huawei Ascend 910D: which is faster for training?
Huawei Ascend 910D has 5.23x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (Google TPU v5p: 459 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 v5p vs Huawei Ascend 910D: which has more memory?
Huawei Ascend 910D carries more HBM (Google TPU v5p: 95 GB HBM2e; 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 v5p vs Huawei Ascend 910D: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: Google TPU v5p 1.53 (459 ÷ 300 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 v5p vs Huawei Ascend 910D: which is more widely used?
Google TPU v5p: 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 v5p full page · Huawei Ascend 910D full page.