NVIDIA Blackwell
NVL72 rack-scale coherent GPU domains, the default substrate for frontier training and inference.
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NVIDIA Blackwell vs Tenstorrent Blackhole
NVIDIA Blackwell (NVIDIA) and Tenstorrent Blackhole (Tenstorrent) both sit in Chips & Compute. Tenstorrent Blackhole shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (8 vs 5). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | NVIDIA Blackwell NVIDIA | Tenstorrent Blackhole Tenstorrent |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Chips & Compute | Chips & Compute |
| Version | GB200 NVL72 | Blackhole |
| Entry cost | Pricing is not published (enterprise/quote-only) | from $999/unit |
| Pricing tiers | — | Cards $999 · Workstations $9999 · Servers (Tenstorrent Galaxy) $70000 |
| Model stack | Blackwell · Blackwell B200 · Grace CPU | Blackhole 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 / 30d | 5 | 8 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | 72-GPU NVLink domain, FP4 inference, HBM3E 192GB, CUDA ecosystem, Second-generation Transformer Engine, Fifth-generation NVLink, FP4 AI Support, Tensor Cores with microscaling formats | 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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