Graphcore IPU
IPU accelerators now inside SoftBank.
Full Graphcore IPU record →Head to head
Graphcore IPU vs AWS Trainium2
Graphcore IPU (SoftBank) and AWS Trainium2 (AWS) both sit in Chips & Compute. AWS Trainium2 shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (5 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Graphcore IPU SoftBank | AWS Trainium2 AWS |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Chips & Compute | Chips & Compute |
| Version | Bow IPU | Trainium2 |
| Entry cost | System sales | Pricing not published; available via AWS EC2 instance pricing. |
| Pricing tiers | — | — |
| Model stack | n/a | Neuron compiler · Trainium2 |
| Context window | — | — |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 0 | 5 |
| Origin | EU | Global |
| Capabilities | Wafer-on-wafer, Poplar SDK, Sparse compute | Trn2 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 memory |
AWS Trainium2
Trn2 UltraServers and Project Rainier capacity, programmed through the Neuron SDK.
Full AWS Trainium2 record →