Chip comparison
Intel Gaudi 3 vs SambaNova SN40L
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 | Intel Gaudi 3 | SambaNova SN40L |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | TSMC N5 | TSMC N5 |
| TDP | 900 W | 700 W |
| Memory | 128 GB HBM2e | 1500 GB DDR5 (three-tier: 64 MB SRAM + 64 GB HBM3 + 1.5 TB DDR5) |
| Memory bandwidth | 3,675 GB/s | — |
| FP16 (dense) | 1,835 TFLOPS | 638 TFLOPS |
| BF16 (dense) | 1,835 TFLOPS | — |
| FP8 (dense) | 1,835 TFLOPS | 1,250 TFLOPS |
| Form factor | OAM | PCIe (SN40L DataScale system) |
| Announced | 2024-04-09 | 2023-09-19 |
| Released | 2024-09-01 | 2024-01-01 |
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Common questions
Intel Gaudi 3 vs SambaNova SN40L: which is faster for training?
Intel Gaudi 3 has 1.47x the dense FP8 throughput of the other (Intel Gaudi 3: 1,835 TFLOPS; SambaNova SN40L: 1,250 TFLOPS). Real-world training speed also depends on memory bandwidth, interconnect, and software stack: see the spec diff for those inputs.
Intel Gaudi 3 vs SambaNova SN40L: which has more memory?
SambaNova SN40L carries more HBM (Intel Gaudi 3: 128 GB HBM2e; SambaNova SN40L: 1500 GB DDR5 (three-tier: 64 MB SRAM + 64 GB HBM3 + 1.5 TB DDR5)). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
Intel Gaudi 3 vs SambaNova SN40L: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP8 TFLOPS per watt: Intel Gaudi 3 2.04 (1,835 ÷ 900 W); SambaNova SN40L 1.79 (1,250 ÷ 700 W). Intel Gaudi 3 wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.
See also: every chip comparison · Intel Gaudi 3 full page · SambaNova SN40L full page.