Side-by-side, with the numbers that matter.
Two rigs, one table. Higher numbers win in cobalt; TDP and price flip.
Rig A
El Capitan
HPE / AMD · workstation
Change
- 1X Neo
- Agility Robotics Digit
- Alibaba Qwen3-72B-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 Founders Edition
- 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 Core
- SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
- Sanctuary AI Phoenix
- Tesla Optimus
- The Stargate Project
- Unitree B2
- Unitree G1
- Unitree H1
Rig B
Tesla Optimus
Tesla · edge
Change
- 1X Neo
- Agility Robotics Digit
- Alibaba Qwen3-72B-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 Founders Edition
- 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 Core
- SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
- Sanctuary AI Phoenix
- Tesla Optimus
- The Stargate Project
- Unitree B2
- Unitree G1
- Unitree H1
0 of 32 fields comparable
⇄ swap sides| Spec | El Capitan | Tesla Optimus |
|---|---|---|
| Accelerator | AMD Instinct MI300A (APU) | — |
| AI Stack | — | Tesla FSD-derived end-to-end neural networks (vision-only) |
| Battery KWH | — | 2.3 |
| Cores | 11,340,000 | — |
| CPU | AMD 4th Gen EPYC 24C 1.8GHz | — |
| Gen2 Announcement Date | — | 2023-12-13 |
| Gen2 Hand DOF | — | 11 |
| Gen2 Height CM | — | 173 |
| Gen2 Neck DOF | — | 2 |
| Gen2 Total DOF Unverified | — | 28 |
| Gen2 Walking Speed Boost PCT | — | 30 |
| Gen2 Weight KG | — | 57 |
| Gen2 Weight Reduction KG | — | 10 |
| Gen3 Announcement Quarter | — | Q1 2026 |
| Gen3 Forearm Actuators | — | 25 |
| Gen3 Hand DOF | — | 22 |
| Gen3 Payload KG | — | 20 |
| Gen3 Production Target | — | summer 2026 |
| Gen3 Total Actuators PER Robot | — | 50 |
| Hpcg Tflops | 17,406 | — |
| Installation Year | 2,024 | — |
| Interconnect | HPE Slingshot-11 | — |
| Location | DOE/NNSA/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | — |
| Manufacturer | HPE | — |
| Model | HPE Cray EX255a | — |
| Payload PER Hand KG | — | 9 |
| Power KW | 29,684.62 | — |
| Rmax Pflops | 1,809 | — |
| Rpeak Pflops | 2,821.1 | — |
| Runtime Hours Light Duty | — | 8 |
| Top500 Rank Nov2025 | 1 | — |
| Walking Speed KM H | — | 8 |