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 Metrics
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Power Specifications
TDP
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Max Power
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Power Connector
PCIe Slot
Cooling
Air
Memory Specifications
Capacity
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Type
On-die SRAM
Bandwidth
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Hardware & Design
Form Factor
Wafer-Scale
Architecture
Wafer Scale Engine 3
Process Node
TSMC 5nm
Launch Year
2024
Variant
Standard
Market Segment
Professional
Transistors
4000.0 billion
Die Size
46225 mm²
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 Type | On-die SRAM |
| On-Die SRAM | 44 GB |
| Power & Thermal | |
| General | |
| Form Factor | Wafer-Scale |
| Architecture | Wafer Scale Engine 3 |
| Launch Year | 2024 |
Documentation & Resources
Common Use Cases
The Cerebras WSE-3 is optimized for high-performance computing tasks with Wafer Scale Engine 3 architecture delivering high TFLOPS of compute power.
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Pre-configured systems featuring the Cerebras WSE-3
| System | GPU Count | Peak Performance | Total Power | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cerebras CS-3 CS-3 · rack · 2024 | 1x WSE-3 | -- | 27.0 kW | View System |
Cerebras CS-3 Inference Cluster (16-node) CS-3 · cluster · 2024 | 16x WSE-3 | -- | 475.0 kW | View System |
Cerebras CS-3 Inference Cluster (32-node) CS-3 · cluster · 2024 | 32x WSE-3 | -- | 945.0 kW | View System |
Cerebras CS-3 Inference Cluster (64-node) CS-3 · cluster · 2024 | 64x WSE-3 | -- | 1860.0 kW | View System |
Cerebras CS-3 Inference Cluster (8-node) CS-3 · cluster · 2024 | 8x WSE-3 | -- | 240.0 kW | View System |
Cerebras CS-3 Inference Cluster (88-node) CS-3 · cluster · 2024 | 88x WSE-3 | -- | 2540.0 kW | View System |
Cerebras CS-3 Rack CS-3 · rack · 2024 | 2x WSE-3 | -- | 54.0 kW | View System |
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