Side-by-side, with the numbers that matter.
Two rigs, one table. Higher numbers win in cobalt; TDP and price flip.
Rig A
Aurora
Intel / HPE · workstation
Change
- 1X Neo
- Agility Robotics Digit
- Alibaba Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct (Q4 quant)
- AMD Instinct MI300X
- AMD Instinct MI325X
- AMD Instinct MI355X
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7
- Apple Mac Pro (M2 Ultra, 2023)
- Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)
- Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024)
- Apptronik Apollo
- Aurora
- AWS Trainium2
- Boston Dynamics Atlas
- Boston Dynamics Spot
- Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 3
- El Capitan
- Figure 02
- Frontier (OLCF-5)
- Google Cloud TPU v5p
- Groq Language Processing Unit
- Intel Gaudi 3 HL-325L
- MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid
- NVIDIA B100
- NVIDIA B200
- NVIDIA DGX B200
- NVIDIA DGX H200
- NVIDIA DGX Spark
- NVIDIA Eos DGX SuperPOD
- NVIDIA GB200
- NVIDIA GB200 NVL72
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper
- NVIDIA H100
- NVIDIA H200
- NVIDIA HGX B200
- NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
- OpenAI GPT-5
- SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
- Sanctuary AI Phoenix
- Tesla Optimus
- The Stargate Project
- Unitree B2
- Unitree G1
- Unitree H1
Rig B
Figure 02
Figure · edge
Change
- 1X Neo
- Agility Robotics Digit
- Alibaba Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct (Q4 quant)
- AMD Instinct MI300X
- AMD Instinct MI325X
- AMD Instinct MI355X
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7
- Apple Mac Pro (M2 Ultra, 2023)
- Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)
- Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024)
- Apptronik Apollo
- Aurora
- AWS Trainium2
- Boston Dynamics Atlas
- Boston Dynamics Spot
- Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 3
- El Capitan
- Figure 02
- Frontier (OLCF-5)
- Google Cloud TPU v5p
- Groq Language Processing Unit
- Intel Gaudi 3 HL-325L
- MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid
- NVIDIA B100
- NVIDIA B200
- NVIDIA DGX B200
- NVIDIA DGX H200
- NVIDIA DGX Spark
- NVIDIA Eos DGX SuperPOD
- NVIDIA GB200
- NVIDIA GB200 NVL72
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper
- NVIDIA H100
- NVIDIA H200
- NVIDIA HGX B200
- NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
- OpenAI GPT-5
- SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
- Sanctuary AI Phoenix
- Tesla Optimus
- The Stargate Project
- Unitree B2
- Unitree G1
- Unitree H1
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⇄ swap sides| Spec | Aurora | Figure 02 |
|---|---|---|
| Accelerator | Intel Data Center GPU Max | — |
| AI Inference Uplift X | — | 3 |
| AI Partner | — | OpenAI partnership models |
| Announcement Date | — | 2024-08-06 |
| Architecture | HPE Cray EX with Intel Exascale Compute Blade | — |
| Battery Energy Uplift PCT | — | 50 |
| Battery KWH | — | 2.25 |
| BMW Area | — | body shop (sheet-metal loading for welding) |
| BMW Deployment Months | — | 11 |
| BMW Parts Loaded MIN | — | 90,000 |
| BMW Runtime Hours MIN | — | 1,250 |
| BMW Shift Hours | — | 10 |
| BMW X3 Vehicles MIN | — | 30,000 |
| Cores | 9,264,128 | — |
| CPU | Intel Xeon CPU Max 9470 52C 2.4GHz | — |
| Deployment Partner | — | BMW Manufacturing (Spartanburg, SC) |
| Deployment Status | — | retired |
| Hand DOF | — | 16 |
| Hand Payload KG | — | 25 |
| Height CM | — | 168 |
| Installation Year | 2,023 | — |
| Interconnect | HPE Slingshot-11 | — |
| Location | DOE/SC/Argonne National Laboratory | — |
| Manufacturer | Intel / HPE | — |
| Power KW | 38,698.36 | — |
| Rapid Charge Hours | — | 1.5 |
| Retirement Started | — | 2025-11-19 |
| RGB Cameras | — | 6 |
| Rmax Pflops | 1,012 | — |
| Rpeak Pflops | 1,980.01 | — |
| Runtime Hours | — | 5 |
| Status Checked | — | 2026-09-24 |
| Successor | — | Figure 03 |
| Successor BMW Project Announced | — | 2026-06-25 |
| Successor Introduced | — | 2025-10-09 |
| Top500 Rank Jun2026 | 4 | — |
| Top500 Rank Nov2025 | 3 | — |
| Weight KG | — | 70 |