Chip comparison
Huawei Ascend 910C vs Tenstorrent Blackhole
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 910C | Tenstorrent Blackhole |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | SMIC N+2 (~7nm) | TSMC N6 |
| TDP | 500 W | 300 W |
| Memory | 128 GB HBM2e | 32 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bandwidth | 3,200 GB/s | 512 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | 800 TFLOPS | 745 TFLOPS |
| BF16 (dense) | 800 TFLOPS | — |
| INT8 (dense) | 1,600 TOPS | 2,980 TOPS |
| Form factor | OAM | PCIe |
| Announced | 2024-09-19 | 2024-07-01 |
| Released | 2025-01-01 | 2025-01-01 |
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Common questions
Huawei Ascend 910C vs Tenstorrent Blackhole: which is faster for training?
Huawei Ascend 910C has 1.07x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (Huawei Ascend 910C: 800 TFLOPS; Tenstorrent Blackhole: 745 TFLOPS). Real-world training speed also depends on memory bandwidth, interconnect, and software stack: see the spec diff for those inputs.
Huawei Ascend 910C vs Tenstorrent Blackhole: which has more memory?
Huawei Ascend 910C carries more HBM (Huawei Ascend 910C: 128 GB HBM2e; Tenstorrent Blackhole: 32 GB GDDR6). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
Huawei Ascend 910C vs Tenstorrent Blackhole: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: Huawei Ascend 910C 1.60 (800 ÷ 500 W); Tenstorrent Blackhole 2.48 (745 ÷ 300 W). Tenstorrent Blackhole wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.
See also: every chip comparison · Huawei Ascend 910C full page · Tenstorrent Blackhole full page.