Tenstorrent Blackhole
Open-source software stack and RISC-V based accelerators sold as cards and IP.
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Tenstorrent Blackhole vs AMD Instinct MI355X
Tenstorrent Blackhole (Tenstorrent) and AMD Instinct MI355X (AMD) both sit in Chips & Compute. AMD Instinct MI355X is the cheaper entry point at Enterprise hardware, pricing not published. Tenstorrent Blackhole shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (8 vs 3). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Tenstorrent Blackhole Tenstorrent | AMD Instinct MI355X AMD |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Chips & Compute | Chips & Compute |
| Version | Blackhole | MI355X |
| Entry cost | from $999/unit | Enterprise hardware, pricing not published |
| Pricing tiers | Cards $999 · Workstations $9999 · Servers (Tenstorrent Galaxy) $70000 | Open Source free |
| Model stack | Blackhole Tensix · Gemma-2 · Gemma4 · GLM-5.2 · Kimi-K3 · Llama-3.3-70B · Qwen3-32B · Tensix cores · tt-metal / tt-nn | CDNA · CDNA 4 · ROCm |
| Context window | — | — |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 8 | 3 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | 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) | 288GB HBM3E, FP4/FP6 support, ROCm 7, open rack designs, DPX compute partition mode, CPX compute partition mode, NPS2 memory partitioning, GPU virtualization support |
AMD Instinct MI355X
288GB HBM3E accelerators with the ROCm software stack, used by several inference providers.
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