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Two rigs, one table. Higher numbers win in cobalt; TDP and price flip.

Rig A

Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 3

Cerebras · accelerator

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Rig B

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition

NVIDIA · gpu

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SpecCerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 3NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
AI Tops—3,352
Bandwidth GB S—1,792
Base Clock GHZ—2.01
Boost Clock GHZ—2.41
Cores900,000—
CS4 Introduced2026-08-18—
CS4 Wse3 Turbo Count3—
Cuda Cores—21,760
DIE Size MM246,225—
Displayport Count—3
Displayport Version—2.1b
Fabric Bandwidth Pbit S214—
Hdmi Count—1
Hdmi Version—2.1b
Length MM—304
Memory Bandwidth PB S21—
Memory BUS Bits—512
MSRP (USD)↓ better—1,999
Nvdec Count—2
Nvdec GEN—6
Nvenc Count—3
Nvenc GEN—9
ON Chip Sram GB44—
Pcie GEN—5
Peak AI Petaflops125—
Process NodeTSMC 5nm—
Required PSU Watts—1,000
RT Core Tflops—318
RT Cores GEN—4
Slot Width—2
Status Checked—2026-09-24
Street Price Date—2026-09-01
Street Price Premium PCT US—145
Street Price USD US Typical—4,900
TDP (W)↓ better—575
Tensor Cores GEN—5
Transistors Trillion4—
VRAM (GB)—32
Vram Type—GDDR7
Width MM—137
Wse3 Turbo Peak AI Petaflops250—