Chip comparison
Huawei Ascend 910B 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 | Huawei Ascend 910B | Huawei Ascend 910D |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | SMIC N+2 (~7nm) | SMIC N+2 (~7nm) |
| TDP | 400 W | 800 W |
| Memory | 64 GB HBM2e | 192 GB HBM3 |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,600 GB/s | 4,000 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | 400 TFLOPS | 1,200 TFLOPS |
| BF16 (dense) | 400 TFLOPS | 1,200 TFLOPS |
| FP8 (dense) | — | 2,400 TFLOPS |
| INT8 (dense) | 800 TOPS | — |
| Form factor | OAM (Atlas 300T A2) | OAM |
| Announced | 2023-08-01 | 2025-04-01 |
| Released | 2023-08-01 | 2025-12-01 |
Robots running Huawei Ascend 910B
Robots running Huawei Ascend 910D
No robots publicly running it yet.
Data centers with Huawei Ascend 910B
Data centers with Huawei Ascend 910D
No data centers publicly running it yet.
Common questions
Huawei Ascend 910B vs Huawei Ascend 910D: which is faster for training?
Huawei Ascend 910D has 6.00x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (Huawei Ascend 910B: 400 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.
Huawei Ascend 910B vs Huawei Ascend 910D: which has more memory?
Huawei Ascend 910D carries more HBM (Huawei Ascend 910B: 64 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.
Huawei Ascend 910B vs Huawei Ascend 910D: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: Huawei Ascend 910B 1.00 (400 ÷ 400 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.
Huawei Ascend 910B vs Huawei Ascend 910D: which is more widely used?
Huawei Ascend 910B: 2 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 · Huawei Ascend 910B full page · Huawei Ascend 910D full page.