Cerebras WSE-3
Overview
The Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine 3 is a single chip the size of a wafer: 46,225 mm2 of TSMC 5nm silicon carrying 4 trillion transistors and 900,000 cores optimised for sparse linear algebra, with 44 GB of on-chip SRAM at 21 PB/s and 214 Pb/s of on-wafer fabric bandwidth. It has no external memory at all — the 44 GB of SRAM is the entire memory system, which is why the usual DRAM capacity and bandwidth figures are blank rather than missing. Cerebras publishes a single compute figure of 125 petaFLOPS, and a footnote on its own datasheet states plainly that FLOPS are shown as sparse. That sparsity is unstructured rather than the 2:4 structured kind, so no dense figure can be derived from it by halving, and none is published; this entry therefore carries no precision figures at all rather than a number that would be compared against dense figures elsewhere on this site.
Performance
Peak theoretical throughput by precision type
| Precision | Peak |
|---|---|
FP64 | No verified data available |
FP32 | No verified data available |
TF32 | No verified data available |
BF16 | No verified data available |
FP16 | No verified data available |
FP8 | No verified data available |
FP6 | No verified data available |
FP4 | No verified data available |
INT8 | No verified data available |
Flopper holds no verified throughput figures for this part yet. The rows stay so the gaps are visible.
Specifications
Architecture
Wafer Scale Engine 3
Form Factor
Wafer-Scale
Launch Year
2024
Process Node
TSMC 5nm
Memory
No verified data available On-die SRAM
Bandwidth
No verified data available
TDP
No verified data available
Max power
No verified data available
Transistors
4000.0 billion
Sparse linear algebra core
900,000
Spec Confidence
Official
Full Specifications
| Compute Engine | |
|---|---|
| Sparse linear algebra core | 900,000 |
| Chip Design | |
| Transistors | 4000.0 billion |
| Die Size | 46225 mm² |
| Process Node | TSMC 5nm |
| Memory | |
| Memory | No verified data available |
| Memory Type | On-die SRAM |
| Bandwidth | No verified data available |
| Interface Width | No verified data available |
| On-Die SRAM | 44 GB |
| Power & Thermal | |
| TDP | No verified data available |
| Max power | No verified data available |
| General | |
| Form Factor | Wafer-Scale |
| Architecture | Wafer Scale Engine 3 |
| Process Node | TSMC 5nm |
| Launch Year | 2024 |
Datasheet & Resources
Data Provenance
Every figure traced to a source
Primary Source
- Publisher
- Cerebras
- Published
- No verified data available
Data Quality
- Spec confidence
- Official
- Core precisions with figures
- 0 of 9
- Normalization
- All values in TFLOPS
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Pre-configured systems featuring the Cerebras WSE-3
| System | GPU Count | Peak Performance | Total Power | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cerebras CS-4 CS-4 · rack · 2026 | 3x WSE-3 | No verified data available | No verified data available | View System |
Cerebras CS-3 CS-3 · rack · 2024 | 1x WSE-3 | No verified data available | 27.0 kW | View System |
Cerebras CS-3 Inference Cluster (16-node) CS-3 · cluster · 2024 | 16x WSE-3 | No verified data available | 475.0 kW | View System |
Cerebras CS-3 Inference Cluster (32-node) CS-3 · cluster · 2024 | 32x WSE-3 | No verified data available | 945.0 kW | View System |
Cerebras CS-3 Inference Cluster (64-node) CS-3 · cluster · 2024 | 64x WSE-3 | No verified data available | 1860.0 kW | View System |
Cerebras CS-3 Inference Cluster (8-node) CS-3 · cluster · 2024 | 8x WSE-3 | No verified data available | 240.0 kW | View System |
Cerebras CS-3 Inference Cluster (88-node) CS-3 · cluster · 2024 | 88x WSE-3 | No verified data available | 2540.0 kW | View System |
Cerebras CS-3 Rack CS-3 · rack · 2024 | 2x WSE-3 | No verified data available | 54.0 kW | View System |
Frequently Asked Questions
How many TFLOPS does the Cerebras WSE-3 have?
Flopper does not currently have any verified throughput figures for the Cerebras WSE-3.
What is the power consumption of the Cerebras WSE-3?
Flopper does not currently have a verified TDP (Thermal Design Power) figure for the Cerebras WSE-3.
How much memory does the Cerebras WSE-3 have?
Flopper does not currently have verified memory capacity or bandwidth figures for the Cerebras WSE-3.
What architecture is the Cerebras WSE-3 based on?
The Cerebras WSE-3 is based on the Wafer Scale Engine 3 architecture, launched in 2024.
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