Ascend 910B

H100 equivalents

0.19

Cost per chip

$15K

TDP

400 W

Ascend 910B is an AI chip designed by Huawei, released in March 2022. One unit is worth about 0.19 H100-equivalents of AI compute. It is a variant built specifically for the Chinese market under export controls.

It carries 29.8 GB of memory. Epoch AI estimates its cost at roughly $15K per unit.

Timeline

Units sold: 100K (2024-03-31) → 50K (2025-12-31)

Full record

Designer: Huawei
Release date: Mar 17, 2022
H100 equivalents: 0.19
8-bit throughput: 3.8×10¹⁴ OP/s
Memory: 29.8 GB
Memory bandwidth: 1.1 TB
TDP: 400 W
Approximate cost: $15K
Made for the Chinese market: Yes