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

Rig A

Cerebras · accelerator

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Rig B

NVIDIA · gpu

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Spec	Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 3	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
AI Tops	—	3,352
Bandwidth GB S	—	1,792
Base Clock GHZ	—	2.01
Boost Clock GHZ	—	2.41
Cores	900,000	—
Cuda Cores	—	21,760
DIE Size MM2	46,225	—
Displayport Count	—	3
Displayport Version	—	2.1b
Fabric Bandwidth PB S	27	—
Hdmi Count	—	1
Hdmi Version	—	2.1b
Length MM	—	304
Memory Bandwidth PB S	21	—
Memory BUS Bits	—	512
MSRP (USD)↓ better	—	1,999
Nvdec Count	—	2
Nvdec GEN	—	6
Nvenc Count	—	3
Nvenc GEN	—	9
ON Chip Sram GB	44	—
Pcie GEN	—	5
Peak AI Petaflops	125	—
Process Node	TSMC 5nm	—
Required PSU Watts	—	1,000
RT Core Tflops	—	318
RT Cores GEN	—	4
Slot Width	—	2
TDP (W)↓ better	—	575
Tensor Cores GEN	—	5
Transistors Trillion	4	—
VRAM (GB)	—	32
Vram Type	—	GDDR7
Width MM	—	137