Chip comparison
Huawei Ascend 910B vs NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip
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 | NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | SMIC N+2 (~7nm) | TSMC 4NP |
| TDP | 400 W | 2700 W |
| Memory | 64 GB HBM2e | 384 GB HBM3e |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,600 GB/s | 16,000 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | 400 TFLOPS | — |
| BF16 (dense) | 400 TFLOPS | — |
| FP8 (dense) | — | 9,000 TFLOPS |
| INT8 (dense) | 800 TOPS | — |
| Form factor | OAM (Atlas 300T A2) | Superchip (2xB200 + 1xGrace) |
| Announced | 2023-08-01 | 2024-03-18 |
| Released | 2023-08-01 | 2024-12-01 |
Robots running Huawei Ascend 910B
Robots running NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip
No robots publicly running it yet.
Data centers with Huawei Ascend 910B
Data centers with NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip
Common questions
Huawei Ascend 910B vs NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: which is faster for training?
NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip has 22.50x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (Huawei Ascend 910B: 400 TFLOPS; NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: 9,000 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 NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: which has more memory?
NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip carries more HBM (Huawei Ascend 910B: 64 GB HBM2e; NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: 384 GB HBM3e). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
Huawei Ascend 910B vs NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: Huawei Ascend 910B 1.00 (400 ÷ 400 W); NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip 3.33 (9,000 ÷ 2700 W). NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.
Huawei Ascend 910B vs NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: which is more widely used?
Huawei Ascend 910B: 2 robots and 1 data center publicly running it. NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: 0 robots and 11 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 · NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip full page.