Tenstorrent Blackhole
Open-source software stack and RISC-V based accelerators sold as cards and IP.
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Tenstorrent Blackhole vs SambaNova SN40L
Tenstorrent Blackhole (Tenstorrent) and SambaNova SN40L (SambaNova) both sit in Chips & Compute. SambaNova SN40L is the cheaper entry point at Free tier available, followed by Pay-as-you-go developer tier.. Tenstorrent Blackhole shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (14 vs 6). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Tenstorrent Blackhole Tenstorrent | SambaNova SN40L SambaNova |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Chips & Compute | Chips & Compute |
| Version | v0.79.0-dev20260910 | SN40L |
| Entry cost | from $999/unit | Free tier available, followed by Pay-as-you-go developer tier. |
| Pricing tiers | Blackhole PCIe Cards $999 · Workstations (TT-QuietBox) $9999 · Servers (Tenstorrent Galaxy) $70000 | Free free · Developer Pay as you go free |
| Model stack | Gemma-2 · Gemma4 · GLM-5.2 · Kimi-K3 · Llama-3.3-70B · Qwen3-32B · Tensix cores · tt-metal / tt-nn | DeepSeek-V3.1 · gpt-oss-120b · Llama / DeepSeek open weights · Llama 3.1 · Llama 3.1 (8B, 70B, 405B) · Llama 3.1 405B · Llama 3.1 70B · Llama 3.1 8B · MiniMax M2.7 · RDU dataflow · SambaRack SN40-16 · SN40L RDU |
| Context window | — | — |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 14 | 6 |
| 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) | three-tier memory, many models per node, fast open-model serving, Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU), Three-tier memory architecture, Dataflow processing, Low power inference, Multi-model concurrency |
SambaNova SN40L
Reconfigurable dataflow units with three-tier memory for serving many models per node.
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