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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 (16 vs 5). 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 not published; available via AWS EC2 instance pricing.from $999/unit
Pricing tiersCards $999 · Workstations (TT-QuietBox) $9999 · Servers (Galaxy) $70000
Model stackNeuron compiler · Trainium2Gemma-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 / 30d516
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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