Chip comparison
NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU vs Tenstorrent Wormhole
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 | NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU | Tenstorrent Wormhole |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | TSMC N7 | GlobalFoundries 12nm |
| Transistors (B) | 54 | — |
| Die size | 826 mm² | — |
| TDP | 400 W | 160 W |
| Memory | 80 GB HBM2e | 12 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bandwidth | 2,039 GB/s | 288 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | 312 TFLOPS | 148 TFLOPS |
| BF16 (dense) | 312 TFLOPS | — |
| INT8 (dense) | 624 TOPS | 590 TOPS |
| Launch price (list) | $10,000 | — |
| Form factor | SXM4 | PCIe (n300, n150) |
| Announced | 2020-05-14 | 2024-07-01 |
| Released | 2020-05-14 | 2024-08-01 |
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Common questions
NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU vs Tenstorrent Wormhole: which is faster for training?
NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU has 2.11x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU: 312 TFLOPS; Tenstorrent Wormhole: 148 TFLOPS). Real-world training speed also depends on memory bandwidth, interconnect, and software stack: see the spec diff for those inputs.
NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU vs Tenstorrent Wormhole: which has more memory?
NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU carries more HBM (NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU: 80 GB HBM2e; Tenstorrent Wormhole: 12 GB GDDR6). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU vs Tenstorrent Wormhole: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU 0.78 (312 ÷ 400 W); Tenstorrent Wormhole 0.93 (148 ÷ 160 W). Tenstorrent Wormhole wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.
See also: every chip comparison · NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU full page · Tenstorrent Wormhole full page.