Announced at Google Cloud Next on 22 April 2026 and not yet shipping. Google says both eighth-generation TPUs will be generally available later in 2026, and neither has appeared in Google Cloud TPU documentation or release notes yet, so every figure here comes from Google's announcement blogs rather than from a spec table for a running machine type. Widely repeated claims that this chip is built on TSMC 2nm and arrives in late 2027 are supply-chain reporting about mass production, not Google statements. Captive silicon: Google has never sold TPUs as hardware and no third party can resell or host them, so they cannot be bought, and Google Cloud will be the only place to rent one.

Google TPU 8t

Type: TPUArchitecture: TPU 8Announced: 2026Status: Announced, not shippingSpec confidence: Vendor claimed
Memory
216 GB
HBM3e
Bandwidth
6.5 TB/s
memory

Overview

Google's eighth-generation training TPU, announced at Google Cloud Next in April 2026. Google publishes a peak of 12.6 PFLOPS of FP4 per chip, with 216 GB of HBM3e at 6,528 GB/s and 128 MB of on-chip Vmem SRAM. Its scale is the notable part: 9,600 chips form a single superpod on a 3D torus with 47 petabits per second of non-blocking bisectional bandwidth, and Google's Virgo network can link over 134,000 of them. FP4 is the only precision Google states for this chip; no FP8, BF16 or INT8 figure is published, and none is inferred from earlier TPU generations. Google publishes no sparse figure for any TPU, so this is a dense rate.

Performance

Peak theoretical throughput by precision type

PrecisionPeak
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
4-bit floating point
12,600TFLOPS
INT8
No verified data available

Every figure here is dense. The vendor documents no structured (2:4) sparsity mode for this part, so there is no second number to quote.

Specifications

Architecture

TPU 8

Form Factor

No verified data available

Launch Year

2026

Process Node

No verified data available

Memory

216 GB HBM3e

Bandwidth

6,528 GB/s

TDP

No verified data available

Max power

No verified data available

Spec Confidence

Vendor claimed

Full Specifications

Memory
Memory 216 GB
Memory Type HBM3e
Bandwidth 6.5 TB/s
Interface Width No verified data available
On-Die SRAM 128 MB
Power & Thermal
TDP No verified data available
Max power No verified data available
Enterprise Features
Sparsity No
General
Form Factor No verified data available
Architecture TPU 8
Process Node No verified data available
Launch Year 2026

Datasheet & Resources

Flopper Datasheet

Google TPU 8t specifications, generated from our database. Printable.

Vendor product page

Google documentation for the TPU 8t

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Data Provenance

Every figure traced to a source

Primary Source

Document
—
Publisher
Google
Published
No verified data available

Data Quality

Spec confidence
Vendor claimed
Clock basis
Boost
Core precisions with figures
1 of 9
Normalization
All values in TFLOPS

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Systems Using This GPU

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SystemGPU CountPeak PerformanceTotal Power
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Frequently Asked Questions

How many TFLOPS does the Google TPU 8t have?

The verified peak figures Flopper holds for the Google TPU 8t are 12,600 TFLOPS FP4. Flopper does not currently have verified FP32, FP16 and FP8 throughput figures for it.

What is the power consumption of the Google TPU 8t?

Flopper does not currently have a verified TDP (Thermal Design Power) figure for the Google TPU 8t.

How much memory does the Google TPU 8t have?

The Google TPU 8t is equipped with 216 GB of memory with 6,528 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

What architecture is the Google TPU 8t based on?

The Google TPU 8t is based on the TPU 8 architecture, launched in 2026.

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