Chip comparison
NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU 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 T4 Tensor Core GPU | Tenstorrent Blackhole |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | TSMC 12FFN | TSMC N6 |
| Transistors (B) | 13.6 | — |
| Die size | 545 mm² | — |
| TDP | 70 W | 300 W |
| Memory | 16 GB GDDR6 | 32 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bandwidth | 320 GB/s | 512 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | 65 TFLOPS | 745 TFLOPS |
| INT8 (dense) | 130 TOPS | 2,980 TOPS |
| Form factor | PCIe (single-slot, low-profile) | PCIe |
| Announced | 2018-09-13 | 2024-07-01 |
| Released | 2019-01-01 | 2025-01-01 |
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Common questions
NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU vs Tenstorrent Blackhole: which is faster for training?
Tenstorrent Blackhole has 11.46x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU: 65 TFLOPS; Tenstorrent Blackhole: 745 TFLOPS). Real-world training speed also depends on memory bandwidth, interconnect, and software stack: see the spec diff for those inputs.
NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU vs Tenstorrent Blackhole: which has more memory?
Tenstorrent Blackhole carries more HBM (NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU: 16 GB GDDR6; Tenstorrent Blackhole: 32 GB GDDR6). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU vs Tenstorrent Blackhole: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU 0.93 (65 ÷ 70 W); Tenstorrent Blackhole 2.48 (745 ÷ 300 W). Tenstorrent Blackhole wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.
See also: every chip comparison · NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU full page · Tenstorrent Blackhole full page.