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Google TPU v6 (Trillium) 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.

FieldGoogle TPU v6 (Trillium)Huawei Ascend 910D
Process nodeSMIC N+2 (~7nm)
TDP200 W800 W
Memory32 GB HBM3192 GB HBM3
Memory bandwidth1,600 GB/s4,000 GB/s
FP16 (dense)1,200 TFLOPS
BF16 (dense)918 TFLOPS1,200 TFLOPS
FP8 (dense)1,836 TFLOPS2,400 TFLOPS
INT8 (dense)1,836 TOPS
Form factorOAM (Trillium pod, up to 256 chips)OAM
Announced2024-05-142025-04-01
Released2024-12-012025-12-01

Robots running Google TPU v6 (Trillium)

No robots publicly running it yet.

Robots running Huawei Ascend 910D

No robots publicly running it yet.

Data centers with Google TPU v6 (Trillium)

Data centers with Huawei Ascend 910D

No data centers publicly running it yet.

Common questions

Google TPU v6 (Trillium) vs Huawei Ascend 910D: which is faster for training?

Huawei Ascend 910D has 1.31x the dense FP8 throughput of the other (Google TPU v6 (Trillium): 1,836 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 v6 (Trillium) vs Huawei Ascend 910D: which has more memory?

Huawei Ascend 910D carries more HBM (Google TPU v6 (Trillium): 32 GB HBM3; 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 v6 (Trillium) vs Huawei Ascend 910D: which is more power-efficient?

Dense FP8 TFLOPS per watt: Google TPU v6 (Trillium) 9.18 (1,836 ÷ 200 W); Huawei Ascend 910D 3.00 (2,400 ÷ 800 W). Google TPU v6 (Trillium) wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.

Google TPU v6 (Trillium) vs Huawei Ascend 910D: which is more widely used?

Google TPU v6 (Trillium): 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 v6 (Trillium) full page · Huawei Ascend 910D full page.