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A100 vs Ascend 910B
Specs from the chip makers' datasheets; prices from the live Compute Cafe panel, refreshed hourly. Every rate is an on-demand published price with a source receipt.
CHEAPEST A100
$0.890/hr
Deep Infra · median $1.44 · 9 providers
CHEAPEST ASCEND 910B
$0.594/hr
Gitee AI · median $0.95 · 3 providers
CHEAPER RIGHT NOW
Ascend 910B
live panel, 2026-09-27
| A100 | ASCEND 910B | |
|---|---|---|
| MAKER | NVIDIA | Huawei |
| ARCHITECTURE | Ampere | Da Vinci v2 (Ascend) |
| LAUNCHED | 2020 | 2024 |
| MEMORY | 40 or 80 GB HBM2/e | 64 GB HBM2e |
| MEMORY BANDWIDTH | 1.6-2.0 TB/s | 1.6 TB/s |
| TENSOR COMPUTE | 312 TFLOPS FP16/BF16 tensor dense (624 sparse) | FP16 ~320 TFLOPS class (third-party compiles; Huawei does not publish a full datasheet) |
| POWER DRAW | 250-400 W | 400 W |
| INTERCONNECT | NVLink 3.0 (SXM) or PCIe 4.0 | OAM, HCCS 392 GB/s |
HOW TO CHOOSE
Ascend 910B vs A100
The 910B's FP16 class (~320 TFLOPS) sits near the A100's 312 TFLOPS, with less memory bandwidth (1.6 vs 2.0 TB/s). On paper it is A100-tier; in practice the comparison is CANN versus CUDA, not silicon.
Workload fit
A100: fine-tuning, multi-gpu training, inference. Ascend 910B: sovereign china ai training and inference, inference at a100-class scale, cuda-native workloads.
A100 VS ASCEND 910B - FAQ
Which is cheaper to rent, A100 or Ascend 910B?
By today's published on-demand rates: A100 starts at $0.890/GPU/hr (median $1.44, 9 providers) and Ascend 910B starts at $0.594/GPU/hr (median $0.95, 3 providers). The cheapest live listing is the Ascend 910B at Gitee AI. Figures recompute from the panel on every refresh.
A100 or Ascend 910B - which should I rent?
A100: The A100 is the most influential datacenter GPU of the decade: the chip GPT-class models were scaled on, and still the market's price-performance reference. Ascend 910B: The Ascend 910B is Huawei's domestic answer to NVIDIA's China-market cards: 64 GB of HBM2e and roughly A100-class FP16 throughput on SMIC 7nm. The side-by-side spec table and live price rows above give the full picture.
Where can I rent A100 and Ascend 910B?
9 providers publish A100 rates and 3 publish Ascend 910B rates on Compute Cafe. Every row links to the provider's own published price - committed-use and reserved rates are excluded.
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