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Iluvatar CoreX reports Tiangai 300 inference results against Nvidia H200

2 NOVEMBER 2026·2 MIN READ·4 SOURCES

Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX says its Tiangai 300 matched or surpassed Nvidia’s H200 in some real-world AI inference tests. The company demonstrated the GPU to media for the first time at an October 28 open day.

Iluvatar CoreX reports Tiangai 300 inference results against Nvidia H200

Key takeaways · 4

  • 01

    The 1.05-times throughput result came from a specific prefill-decode separated deployment, not a general finding for every task.

  • 02

    The third-party benchmark covered four mainstream models and three application scenarios.

  • 03

    In online search, advertising and recommendation workloads, the company reported 21% higher recommendation inference throughput and 26% lower lightweight-computing latency.

  • 04

    The IXL144 puts 144 GPUs and about 10.1 terabytes of aggregate memory in one standard rack, according to event coverage.

What the benchmark measured

The third-party benchmark covered four mainstream models and three application scenarios[3]. In a typical deployment that separates prefill and decode, the Tiangai 300 delivered 1.05 times the H200’s single-card end-to-end throughput[3]. The test also recorded 1.05 times the H200’s attention performance in a 64K long-context scenario[3]. For GLM-5.3 at 64K context under the same user-experience requirements, its MoE throughput was 1.15 times the H200’s[3]. The 1.05-times throughput result is tied to specific test conditions and does not establish performance across all tasks[3].

Results vary by workload

In 8K-to-128K long-context scenarios, agent first-token latency was about 10% to 30% lower than the H200’s[3]. Multimodal-generation inference throughput increased by about 2% to 5%[3]. Iluvatar also reported that the Tiangai 300 outperformed the H200 on complex text-to-image and text-to-video workloads using major language models, including Zhipu AI’s GLM-5.3[2]. For online search, advertising and recommendation workloads, reported recommendation inference throughput rose 21%, while lightweight-computing latency fell 26%[3]. These figures describe different tests and should not be treated as one broad performance measure[3].

Other systems on display

The open day also showcased Iluvatar’s AFD separation solution, IXL144 supernode, computing software stack and Tongyang edge-computing terminal[1]. Iluvatar says AFD completed deployment testing and reduced decode-inference latency by 60%[3]. The IXL144 combines 144 GPUs and about 10.1 terabytes of aggregate memory in a standard rack[1]; Iluvatar estimates its cost per million effective tokens is about 40% lower than international mainstream solutions[3]. The platform supports mixed training and prefill-decode or AFD separation, and can work with other vendors’ accelerators and specialized chips[1].

Market and deployment context

The H200 is the most advanced Nvidia AI processor approved for export to China under current US trade rules, according to the South China Morning Post[4]. Iluvatar began listing in Hong Kong in January[2]. Analysts said the Tiangai 300 results point to Chinese domestic GPU makers moving from early viability toward enterprise-grade production for large-scale commercial AI deployments[2]. That is an assessment of the broader industry direction, not proof that the reported benchmark results will hold for every customer workload[3][2].

For teams evaluating inference hardware, the results offer workload-specific comparison points, not a universal ranking. Buyers should check whether their models, deployment setup and latency requirements resemble the reported tests before drawing procurement conclusions.

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