Chip comparison
Huawei Ascend 910B vs Intel Gaudi 2
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 | Intel Gaudi 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | SMIC N+2 (~7nm) | TSMC N7 |
| TDP | 400 W | 600 W |
| Memory | 64 GB HBM2e | 96 GB HBM2e |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,600 GB/s | 2,450 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | 400 TFLOPS | — |
| BF16 (dense) | 400 TFLOPS | 432 TFLOPS |
| INT8 (dense) | 800 TOPS | — |
| Form factor | OAM (Atlas 300T A2) | OAM |
| Announced | 2023-08-01 | 2022-05-10 |
| Released | 2023-08-01 | 2022-09-01 |
Robots running Huawei Ascend 910B
Robots running Intel Gaudi 2
No robots publicly running it yet.
Data centers with Huawei Ascend 910B
Data centers with Intel Gaudi 2
No data centers publicly running it yet.
Common questions
Huawei Ascend 910B vs Intel Gaudi 2: which is faster for training?
Intel Gaudi 2 has 1.08x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (Huawei Ascend 910B: 400 TFLOPS; Intel Gaudi 2: 432 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 Intel Gaudi 2: which has more memory?
Intel Gaudi 2 carries more HBM (Huawei Ascend 910B: 64 GB HBM2e; Intel Gaudi 2: 96 GB HBM2e). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
Huawei Ascend 910B vs Intel Gaudi 2: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: Huawei Ascend 910B 1.00 (400 ÷ 400 W); Intel Gaudi 2 0.72 (432 ÷ 600 W). Huawei Ascend 910B wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.
Huawei Ascend 910B vs Intel Gaudi 2: which is more widely used?
Huawei Ascend 910B: 2 robots and 1 data center publicly running it. Intel Gaudi 2: 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 · Intel Gaudi 2 full page.