Chip comparison
NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip 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 GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip | Tenstorrent Wormhole |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | TSMC 4NP | GlobalFoundries 12nm |
| TDP | 2700 W | 160 W |
| Memory | 384 GB HBM3e | 12 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bandwidth | 16,000 GB/s | 288 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | — | 148 TFLOPS |
| FP8 (dense) | 9,000 TFLOPS | — |
| INT8 (dense) | — | 590 TOPS |
| Form factor | Superchip (2xB200 + 1xGrace) | PCIe (n300, n150) |
| Announced | 2024-03-18 | 2024-07-01 |
| Released | 2024-12-01 | 2024-08-01 |
Robots running NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip
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Robots running Tenstorrent Wormhole
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Data centers with NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip
Data centers with Tenstorrent Wormhole
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Common questions
NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip vs Tenstorrent Wormhole: which is faster for training?
NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip has 60.81x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: 9,000 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 GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip vs Tenstorrent Wormhole: which has more memory?
NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip carries more HBM (NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: 384 GB HBM3e; Tenstorrent Wormhole: 12 GB GDDR6). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip vs Tenstorrent Wormhole: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip 3.33 (9,000 ÷ 2700 W); Tenstorrent Wormhole 0.93 (148 ÷ 160 W). NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.
NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip vs Tenstorrent Wormhole: which is more widely used?
NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: 0 robots and 11 data centers publicly running it. Tenstorrent Wormhole: 0 robots and 0 data centers. Empty here means no operator has said publicly, not zero adoption in the market.
See also: every chip comparison · NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip full page · Tenstorrent Wormhole full page.