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Huawei Ascend 910B vs Intel Gaudi 3

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 910BIntel Gaudi 3
Process nodeSMIC N+2 (~7nm)TSMC N5
TDP400 W900 W
Memory64 GB HBM2e128 GB HBM2e
Memory bandwidth1,600 GB/s3,675 GB/s
FP16 (dense)400 TFLOPS1,835 TFLOPS
BF16 (dense)400 TFLOPS1,835 TFLOPS
FP8 (dense)1,835 TFLOPS
INT8 (dense)800 TOPS
Form factorOAM (Atlas 300T A2)OAM
Announced2023-08-012024-04-09
Released2023-08-012024-09-01

Robots running Huawei Ascend 910B

Robots running Intel Gaudi 3

No robots publicly running it yet.

Data centers with Huawei Ascend 910B

Data centers with Intel Gaudi 3

No data centers publicly running it yet.

Common questions

Huawei Ascend 910B vs Intel Gaudi 3: which is faster for training?

Intel Gaudi 3 has 4.59x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (Huawei Ascend 910B: 400 TFLOPS; Intel Gaudi 3: 1,835 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 3: which has more memory?

Intel Gaudi 3 carries more HBM (Huawei Ascend 910B: 64 GB HBM2e; Intel Gaudi 3: 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 Intel Gaudi 3: which is more power-efficient?

Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: Huawei Ascend 910B 1.00 (400 ÷ 400 W); Intel Gaudi 3 2.04 (1,835 ÷ 900 W). Intel Gaudi 3 wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.

Huawei Ascend 910B vs Intel Gaudi 3: which is more widely used?

Huawei Ascend 910B: 2 robots and 1 data center publicly running it. Intel Gaudi 3: 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 3 full page.