DeepSeek V4.1F shows 5x-7.4x decode edge on Ascend 950DT vs GB200
The cost crossover at 6.8K tokens/s/chip reframes the Ascend-versus-Blackwell debate from raw benchmark losses to workload-dependent economics, suggesting DeepSeek could run its API on a sub-US$1B Blackwell cluster while pivoting post-training to Ascend. Practitioners tracking inference infrastructure or Huawei's CANN ecosystem get a rare concrete per-chip price and throughput comparison. The proposed 128-chip Ascend supernode topology has no Nvidia equivalent, which matters for anyone planning large-scale decode deployments.
