Side-by-side, with the numbers that matter.
Two rigs, one table. Higher numbers win in cobalt; TDP and price flip.
Rig A
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
NVIDIA · gpu
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
El Capitan
HPE / AMD · 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 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti | El Capitan |
|---|---|---|
| Accelerator | — | AMD Instinct MI300A (APU) |
| AI Tops | 1,406 | — |
| Bandwidth GB S | 896 | — |
| Base Clock GHZ | 2.3 | — |
| Boost Clock GHZ | 2.45 | — |
| Cores | — | 11,340,000 |
| CPU | — | AMD 4th Gen EPYC 24C 1.8GHz |
| Cuda Cores | 8,960 | — |
| Founders Edition | none (partner cards only) | — |
| Founders Edition Models Rtx50 Launch | RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 | — |
| Hpcg Tflops | — | 17,406 |
| Installation Year | — | 2,024 |
| Interconnect | — | HPE Slingshot-11 |
| Location | — | DOE/NNSA/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Manufacturer | — | HPE |
| Memory BUS Bits | 256 | — |
| Memory Speed Gbps | 28 | — |
| Model | — | HPE Cray EX255a |
| MSRP (USD)↓ better | 749 | — |
| Pcie GEN | 5 | — |
| Power KW | — | 29,684.62 |
| Required PSU Watts | 750 | — |
| Rmax Pflops | — | 1,809 |
| Rpeak Pflops | — | 2,821.1 |
| RT Core Tflops | 133 | — |
| RT Cores GEN | 4 | — |
| Status Checked | 2026-09-24 | — |
| Street Price Date | 2026-09-01 | — |
| Street Price Premium PCT US | 40 | — |
| Street Price USD US Typical | 1,050 | — |
| TDP (W)↓ better | 300 | — |
| Tensor Cores GEN | 5 | — |
| Top500 Jun2026 NO1 | — | LineShine (National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen, China) |
| Top500 Rank Jun2026 | — | 2 |
| Top500 Rank Nov2024 | — | 1 |
| Top500 Rank Nov2025 | — | 1 |
| VRAM (GB) | 16 | — |
| Vram Type | GDDR7 | — |