Tenstorrent Blackhole
Open-source software stack and RISC-V based accelerators sold as cards and IP.
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Tenstorrent Blackhole vs NVIDIA Blackwell
Tenstorrent Blackhole (Tenstorrent) and NVIDIA Blackwell (NVIDIA) both sit in Chips & Compute. Tenstorrent Blackhole shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (14 vs 9). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Tenstorrent Blackhole Tenstorrent | NVIDIA Blackwell NVIDIA |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Chips & Compute | Chips & Compute |
| Version | v0.79.0-dev20260910 | GB200 NVL72 |
| Entry cost | from $999/unit | Pricing not publicly available (enterprise hardware/rack scale) |
| Pricing tiers | Blackhole PCIe Cards $999 · Workstations (TT-QuietBox) $9999 · Servers (Tenstorrent Galaxy) $70000 | — |
| Model stack | Gemma-2 · Gemma4 · GLM-5.2 · Kimi-K3 · Llama-3.3-70B · Qwen3-32B · Tensix cores · tt-metal / tt-nn | Blackwell · Blackwell B200 · Grace CPU |
| Context window | — | — |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 14 | 9 |
| 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) | 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 |
NVIDIA Blackwell
NVL72 rack-scale coherent GPU domains, the default substrate for frontier training and inference.
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