Side-by-side, with the numbers that matter.

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

Rig A

Google · cloud-model

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Rig B

NVIDIA · workstation

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Spec	Google Cloud TPU v5p	NVIDIA DGX B200
Bf16 Tflops PER Chip	459	—
Bluefield3 Dpus	—	2
Chips PER POD	8,960	—
CPU Base GHZ	—	2.1
CPU Count	—	2
CPU MAX Boost GHZ	—	4
CPU Model	—	Intel Xeon Platinum 8570
FP4 Pflops Dense	—	72
FP4 Pflops Sparse	—	144
FP8 Pflops	—	72
FP8 Tflops PER Chip	459	—
Gpus	—	8
HBM Bandwidth GB S	2,765	—
HBM Bandwidth TB S	—	64
HBM Capacity GIB	95	—
Height MM	—	444
ICI Bandwidth GB S	1,200	—
Internal Storage TB	—	30.72
Length MM	—	897.1
MAX Power KW	—	14.3
Networking Osfp Ports	—	4
Nvswitch Count	—	2
OS	—	NVIDIA DGX OS / Ubuntu
OS Storage TB	—	3.8
PER Port Gbps MAX	—	400
Rack Units	—	10
Sparse Cores PER Chip	4	—
Status	available (earlier generation)	—
Successor Tpu7x Chips PER POD	9,216	—
Successor Tpu7x GA	2026-03-31	—
System Memory GB Default	—	2,048
System Memory GB MAX	—	4,096
Tensor Cores PER Chip	2	—
Topology	3D torus	—
Total CPU Cores	—	112
Total Hbm3e GB	—	1,440
Total Nvlink Bandwidth TB S	—	14.4
Width MM	—	482.2