Chip comparison
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 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 | NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin | Tenstorrent Blackhole |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | Samsung 8N | TSMC N6 |
| TDP | 60 W | 300 W |
| Memory | 64 GB LPDDR5 | 32 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bandwidth | 204.8 GB/s | 512 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | — | 745 TFLOPS |
| INT8 (dense) | 275 TOPS | 2,980 TOPS |
| Form factor | Module (AGX Orin 64GB) | PCIe |
| Announced | 2022-03-22 | 2024-07-01 |
| Released | 2022-07-01 | 2025-01-01 |
Robots running NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin
Robots running Tenstorrent Blackhole
No robots publicly running it yet.
Data centers with NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin
No data centers publicly running it yet.
Data centers with Tenstorrent Blackhole
No data centers publicly running it yet.
Common questions
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin vs Tenstorrent Blackhole: which has more memory?
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin carries more HBM (NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin: 64 GB LPDDR5; Tenstorrent Blackhole: 32 GB GDDR6). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin vs Tenstorrent Blackhole: which is more widely used?
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin: 9 robots and 0 data centers publicly running it. Tenstorrent Blackhole: 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 Jetson AGX Orin full page · Tenstorrent Blackhole full page.