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AWS Trainium2 vs Tenstorrent Blackhole

AWS Trainium2 (AWS) and Tenstorrent Blackhole (Tenstorrent) both sit in Chips & Compute. Tenstorrent Blackhole shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (8 vs 7). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

AttributeAWS Trainium2

AWS

Tenstorrent Blackhole

Tenstorrent

SegmentChips & ComputeChips & Compute
VersionTrainium2Blackhole
Entry costPricing is not published on the page. Available via EC2 instances/UltraServers.from $999/unit
Pricing tiers—Cards $999 · Workstations $9999 · Servers (Tenstorrent Galaxy) $70000
Model stackAWS Trainium2 · Llama · Llama 3.1 · Llama 3.1 405B · Llama 3.3 · Llama 3.3 70B · Neuron compiler · Qwen3 · Stable Diffusion · Trainium2Blackhole Tensix · 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 / 30d78
OriginGlobalGlobal
CapabilitiesTrn2 UltraServer, 64-chip NeuronLink domain, Neuron SDK, Rainier cluster, Generative AI training, Generative AI inference, Up to 20.8 FP8 petaflops, 1.5 TB HBM3 memoryRISC-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)
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