Chip comparison
Huawei Ascend 910D 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 910D | NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | SMIC N+2 (~7nm) | TSMC 4NP |
| TDP | 800 W | 2700 W |
| Memory | 192 GB HBM3 | 384 GB HBM3e |
| Memory bandwidth | 4,000 GB/s | 16,000 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | 1,200 TFLOPS | — |
| BF16 (dense) | 1,200 TFLOPS | — |
| FP8 (dense) | 2,400 TFLOPS | 9,000 TFLOPS |
| Form factor | OAM | Superchip (2xB200 + 1xGrace) |
| Announced | 2025-04-01 | 2024-03-18 |
| Released | 2025-12-01 | 2024-12-01 |
Robots running Huawei Ascend 910D
No robots publicly running it yet.
Robots running NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip
No robots publicly running it yet.
Data centers with Huawei Ascend 910D
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Data centers with NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip
Common questions
Huawei Ascend 910D vs NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: which is faster for training?
NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip has 3.75x the dense FP8 throughput of the other (Huawei Ascend 910D: 2,400 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 910D vs NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: which has more memory?
NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip carries more HBM (Huawei Ascend 910D: 192 GB HBM3; 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 910D vs NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP8 TFLOPS per watt: Huawei Ascend 910D 3.00 (2,400 ÷ 800 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 910D vs NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: which is more widely used?
Huawei Ascend 910D: 0 robots and 0 data centers 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 910D full page · NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip full page.