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

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

Rig A

SambaNova · accelerator

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Rig B

NVIDIA · gpu

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Spec	SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
AI Tops	—	3,352
Bandwidth GB S	—	1,792
Base Clock GHZ	—	2.01
Bf16 Tflops PER Socket	638	—
Boost Clock GHZ	—	2.41
Cuda Cores	—	21,760
Current Family Listed	SN50, SN40	—
DDR Bandwidth GB S	200	—
Ddr5 Capacity TB	1.5	—
Displayport Count	—	3
Displayport Version	—	2.1b
HBM Bandwidth TB S	1.8	—
Hbm3 Capacity GB	64	—
Hdmi Count	—	1
Hdmi Version	—	2.1b
Length MM	—	304
Memory BUS Bits	—	512
MSRP (USD)↓ better	—	1,999
Nvdec Count	—	2
Nvdec GEN	—	6
Nvenc Count	—	3
Nvenc GEN	—	9
ON Chip Sram MB	520	—
Packaging	3x CoWoS-S, 2 accelerator dies	—
Pattern Compute Units	1,040	—
Pcie GEN	—	5
Process Node	TSMC 5nm	—
Required PSU Watts	—	1,000
RT Core Tflops	—	318
RT Cores GEN	—	4
Slot Width	—	2
Status Checked	2026-09-24	2026-09-24
Street Price Date	—	2026-09-01
Street Price Premium PCT US	—	145
Street Price USD US Typical	—	4,900
Successor	SN50 (fifth-generation RDU)	—
Successor Introduced	2026-02-24	—
TDP (W)↓ better	—	575
Tensor Cores GEN	—	5
VRAM (GB)	—	32
Vram Type	—	GDDR7
Width MM	—	137