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Google TPU v5e · TPU
197 teraflops of dense BF16 compute a chip; Google publishes no power figure
Shipped 9 Nov 2023; shipped, no dated promise on record. Epoch AI names it at 10 AI data centers and no GPU cluster. Google across the site.
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Each figure in Google’s own words
one chip, dense compute; memory is high-bandwidth memory- BF16, dense
- 197 TFLOPS
Peak compute per chip (bf16) 197 TFLOPs
TPU v5e - INT8, dense
- 393 TOPS
Peak compute per chip (Int8) 393 TOPs
TPU v5e - Memory
- 16 GB
HBM capacity per chip 16 GB
TPU v5e - Memory bandwidth
- 0.86 TB/s
HBM bandwidth per chip 800 GiBps
TPU v5e (800 GiB/s on the page) - List price
- $1.20 a chip-hour
TPU v5e us-central1 Iowa $1.20
Cloud TPU pricing (on-demand, us-central1, per chip-hour); 164 TFLOP-hours of dense 16-bit compute a dollar
The v5e page prints HBM bandwidth as 800 GiBps; the value is 800 GiB/s converted to 858.99 GB/s. The page gives no FP8 figure, so int8 is given. Google went straight to preview on 2023-08-29 with no dated window, so there is no promise.
The shipment
each date links to the page it is quoted from- 9 Nov 2023 Shipped: Cloud TPU v5e generally available.
Second, Cloud TPU v5e is now generally available
Announcing Cloud TPU v5e GA for cost-efficient AI model training and inference
Named at 10 AI data centers
H100-equivalents and power are the whole site’s today, with every chip it holds| Site | Owner | Country | H100e | MW | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Pryor (North) | United States | 636,685 | 442 | TPU v5p, TPU v5e | |
| Google Columbus | United States | 331,986 | 364 | TPU v5e, TPU v5p, TPU v6e, TPU v7 | |
| Google New Albany | United States | 323,901 | 400 | TPU v5e, TPU v5p, TPU v6e | |
| Google Council Bluffs (East) | United States | 255,685 | 284 | TPU v5e, TPU v6e, TPU v5p, TPU v7 | |
| Google Bristow | United States | 209,861 | 286 | TPU v5e, TPU v5p, TPU v6e, TPU v7 | |
| Google Omaha | United States | 198,585 | 284 | TPU v5e, TPU v5p, TPU v6e, TPU v7 | |
| Google The Dalles | United States | 175,341 | 185 | TPU v6e, TPU v5p, TPU v5e, TPU v7 | |
| Google Storey County | United States | 133,906 | 214 | TPU v5e, TPU v4, TPU v6e, TPU v5p | |
| Google Lancaster | United States | 130,369 | 164 | TPU v5e, TPU v6e | |
| Google Papillion | United States | 100,556 | 284 | TPU v4, TPU v5e, TPU v5p |
In no GPU cluster of Epoch AI’s list
Epoch AI’s list of AI supercomputers, which stops in July 2025Epoch AI’s names for this chip: TPU v5e.
Other Google chips
- TPU v4 275 teraflops of dense BF16 compute a chip; Google publishes no power figure
- TPU v5p 459 teraflops of dense BF16 compute a chip; Google publishes no power figure
- TPU v6e 918 teraflops of dense BF16 compute a chip; Google publishes no power figure
- TPU7x (Ironwood) 2,307 teraflops of dense BF16 compute a chip; Google publishes no power figure
- Google’s own pages, each linked beside the figure or date it gives. Each page was read and each quote checked on 23 Oct 2026.
- Where it runs: Epoch AI, AI data centers and Epoch AI, GPU clusters, CC BY 4.0.