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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 (16 vs 9). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

AttributeNVIDIA Blackwell

NVIDIA

Tenstorrent Blackhole

Tenstorrent

SegmentChips & ComputeChips & Compute
VersionBlackwellBlackhole
Entry costPricing is not publicly listed (enterprise hardware architecture/system)from $999/unit
Pricing tiersCards $999 · Workstations (TT-QuietBox) $9999 · Servers (Galaxy) $70000
Model stackBlackwell · Blackwell B200 · Grace CPUGemma-2 · Gemma4 · GLM-5.2 · Kimi-K3 · Llama-3.3-70B · Qwen3-32B · Tensix cores · tt-metal / tt-nn
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Changes / 30d916
OriginGlobalGlobal
Capabilities72-GPU NVLink domain, FP4 inference, HBM3E 192GB, CUDA ecosystem, Second-generation Transformer Engine, Fifth-generation NVLink, FP4 AI Support, Tensor Cores with microscaling formatsRISC-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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