Graphcore IPU
IPU accelerators now inside SoftBank.
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Graphcore IPU vs Tenstorrent Blackhole
Graphcore IPU (SoftBank) and Tenstorrent Blackhole (Tenstorrent) both sit in Chips & Compute. Graphcore IPU is the cheaper entry point at System sales. Tenstorrent Blackhole shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (16 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Graphcore IPU SoftBank | Tenstorrent Blackhole Tenstorrent |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Chips & Compute | Chips & Compute |
| Version | Bow IPU | Blackhole |
| Entry cost | System sales | from $999/unit |
| Pricing tiers | — | Cards $999 · Workstations (TT-QuietBox) $9999 · Servers (Galaxy) $70000 |
| Model stack | n/a | 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 | 0 | 16 |
| Origin | EU | Global |
| Capabilities | Wafer-on-wafer, Poplar SDK, Sparse compute | 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) |
Tenstorrent Blackhole
Open-source software stack and RISC-V based accelerators sold as cards and IP.
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