Side-by-side, with the numbers that matter.
Two rigs, one table. Higher numbers win in cobalt; TDP and price flip.
Rig A
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
Rig B
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
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⇄ swap sides| Spec | Figure 02 | Aurora |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |