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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.

FieldHuawei Ascend 910BNVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip
Process nodeSMIC N+2 (~7nm)TSMC 4NP
TDP400 W2700 W
Memory64 GB HBM2e384 GB HBM3e
Memory bandwidth1,600 GB/s16,000 GB/s
FP16 (dense)400 TFLOPS
BF16 (dense)400 TFLOPS
FP8 (dense)9,000 TFLOPS
INT8 (dense)800 TOPS
Form factorOAM (Atlas 300T A2)Superchip (2xB200 + 1xGrace)
Announced2023-08-012024-03-18
Released2023-08-012024-12-01

Robots running Huawei Ascend 910B

Robots running NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip

No robots publicly running it yet.

Data centers with Huawei Ascend 910B

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.