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Google TPU IronwoodTenstorrent Blackhole
| Attribute | Google TPU Ironwood | Tenstorrent Blackhole Tenstorrent |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Chips & Compute | Chips & Compute |
| Version | Ironwood (7th generation) | Blackhole |
| Entry cost | from $5.4/unit | from $999/unit |
| Pricing tiers | On-Demand (us-central1 Iowa) $12 · DWS Flex-start price (us-central1 Iowa) $6 · DWS Calendar Mode price (us-central1 Iowa) $8.4 · 1-year Commitment (us-central1 Iowa) $8.4 · 3-year Commitment (us-central1 Iowa) $5.4 · On-Demand (europe-west2 London) $13.2 · DWS Flex-start price (europe-west2 London) $6 · DWS Calendar Mode price (europe-west2 London) $8.4 | Cards $999 · Workstations (TT-QuietBox) $9999 · Servers (Galaxy) $70000 |
| Model stack | Gemini · Ironwood · Ironwood (TPU v7) · Ironwood TPU · Ironwood TPU (7th Generation) · TPU v7 · TPU7x · TPU7x (Ironwood) · XLA compiler | Gemma-2 · Gemma4 · GLM-5.2 · Kimi-K3 · Llama-3.3-70B · Qwen3-32B · Tensix cores · tt-metal / tt-nn |
| Context window | — | — |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 10 | 15 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | 9,216-chip pods, inference optimised, liquid cooled, JAX + PyTorch/XLA, Large-scale training, Reasoning and inference, 9,216 liquid-cooled chips per pod, 42.5 ExaFlops performance | RISC-V cores, open tt-metal stack, Ethernet-scaled cards, IP licensing, Passive, active and liquid cooling options, High-performance AI processing, Liquid-cooled workstations (TT-QuietBox), Scale-out servers (Tenstorrent Galaxy) |