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Huawei Ascend 910B vs Huawei Ascend 910C

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.

FieldHuawei Ascend 910BHuawei Ascend 910C
Process nodeSMIC N+2 (~7nm)SMIC N+2 (~7nm)
TDP400 W500 W
Memory64 GB HBM2e128 GB HBM2e
Memory bandwidth1,600 GB/s3,200 GB/s
FP16 (dense)400 TFLOPS800 TFLOPS
BF16 (dense)400 TFLOPS800 TFLOPS
INT8 (dense)800 TOPS1,600 TOPS
Form factorOAM (Atlas 300T A2)OAM
Announced2023-08-012024-09-19
Released2023-08-012025-01-01

Robots running Huawei Ascend 910B

Robots running Huawei Ascend 910C

No robots publicly running it yet.

Data centers with Huawei Ascend 910B

Data centers with Huawei Ascend 910C

No data centers publicly running it yet.

Common questions

Huawei Ascend 910B vs Huawei Ascend 910C: which is faster for training?

Huawei Ascend 910C has 2.00x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (Huawei Ascend 910B: 400 TFLOPS; Huawei Ascend 910C: 800 TFLOPS). Real-world training speed also depends on memory bandwidth, interconnect, and software stack: see the spec diff for those inputs.

Huawei Ascend 910B vs Huawei Ascend 910C: which has more memory?

Huawei Ascend 910C carries more HBM (Huawei Ascend 910B: 64 GB HBM2e; Huawei Ascend 910C: 128 GB HBM2e). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.

Huawei Ascend 910B vs Huawei Ascend 910C: which is more power-efficient?

Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: Huawei Ascend 910B 1.00 (400 ÷ 400 W); Huawei Ascend 910C 1.60 (800 ÷ 500 W). Huawei Ascend 910C wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.

Huawei Ascend 910B vs Huawei Ascend 910C: which is more widely used?

Huawei Ascend 910B: 2 robots and 1 data center publicly running it. Huawei Ascend 910C: 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 · Huawei Ascend 910B full page · Huawei Ascend 910C full page.