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tenstorrent/tt-metal: :metal: TT-NN operator library, and TT-Metalium low level kernel programming model.

tenstorrent/tt-metal: :metal: TT-NN operator library, and TT-Metalium low level kernel programming model.

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TT-NN is a Python & C++ Neural Network OP library.

API Reference | Model Demos

Featured Models

The Models team is focused on developing the following models, optimizing them for performance, accuracy, and compatibility. Follow each model link for more details.

[!IMPORTANT]
For a full model list see the Model Matrix, or visit the Developer Hub.
[!NOTE]
Performance Metrics:
- Time to First Token (TTFT) measures the time (in milliseconds) it takes to generate the first output token after input is received.
- T/S/U (Tokens per Second per User): Represents the throughput of first-token generation after prefill. It is calculated as 1 / inter-token latency.
- T/S (Tokens per Second): Represents total token throughput, calculated as T/S = T/S/U x batch size.
- TP (Tensor Parallel) and DP (Data Parallel): Indicate the parallelization factors across multiple devices.
- Reported LLM Performance: Based on an input sequence length of 128 tokens for all models.
- Performance Data Source: Metrics were collected using the tt-metal model demos (linked above). Results may vary when using other runtimes such as the vLLM inference server.

Llama 3.3 70B (TP=32)

| Batch | Hardware | TTFT (MS) | T/S/U | Target
T/S/U | T/S | TT-Metalium Release | vLLM Tenstorrent Repo Release | |-------|----------|-----------|-------|-----------------|-----|---------------------|-------------------------------| | 32 | Galaxy (Wormhole) | 53 | 72.5 | 80 | 2268.8 | v0.65.0-rc7 | 59be953 |

Qwen 2.5 7B (TP=2)

| Batch | Hardware | TTFT (MS) | T/S/U | Target
T/S/U | T/S | TT-Metalium Release | vLLM Tenstorrent Repo Release | |-------|----------|-----------|-------|-----------------|------|---------------------|-------------------------------| | 32 | n300 (Wormhole) | 109 | 22.1 | 30 | 707.2 | v0.62.0-rc35 | ced0161 |

Qwen 2.5 72B (TP=8)

| Batch | Hardware | TTFT (MS) | T/S/U | Target
T/S/U | T/S | TT-Metalium Release | vLLM Tenstorrent Repo Release | |-------|----------|-----------|-------|-----------------|-----|---------------------|-------------------------------| | 32 | QuietBox (Wormhole) | 223 | 15.4 | 20 | 492.8 | v0.62.0-rc25 | e7c329b |

Whisper (distil-large-v3)

| Batch | Hardware | TTFT (MS) | T/S/U | Target
T/S/U | T/S | TT-Metalium Release | |-------|----------|-----------|-------|-----------------|-----|---------------------| | 1 | n150 (Wormhole) | 163 | 105.0 | 45 | 105.0 | v0.65.0-dev20251208 | | 1 | p150 (Blackhole) | 63 | 263.4 | | 263.4 | v0.65.0-dev20251208 |

Mixtral 8x7B (TP=8)

| Batch | Hardware | TTFT (MS) | T/S/U | Target
T/S/U | T/S | TT-Metalium Release | |-------|----------|-----------|-------|-----------------|-----|---------------------| | 32 | QuietBox (Wormhole) | 122 | 24.9 | 33 | 796.8 | v0.62.0-dev20251015 |

Blackhole software optimization is under active development. Please join us in shaping the future of open source AI!
[\[Discord\]](https://discord.gg/tenstorrent) [\[Developer Hub\]](https://tenstorrent.com/developers)

For more information regarding vLLM installation and environment creation visit the Tenstorrent vLLM TT plugin README. Note that the previously maintained vLLM TT fork is deprecated.

Model Updates

For the latest model updates and features, please see MODEL_UPDATES.md

Model Bring-Up and Testing

For information on initial model procedures, please see Model Bring-Up and Testing

TT-NN Tech Reports

Benchmarks


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TT-Metalium is our low-level programming model, enabling kernel development for Tenstorrent hardware.

Programming Guide | API Reference

Getting started

Get started with simple kernels.

TT-Metalium Tech Reports

Scaleout Tech Reports

TT-Metalium Programming Examples

Hello World

Add Integers

Simple Tensor Manipulation

DRAM Data Movement

Eltwise

Matmul

Tools and Instruments

TT-NN Visualizer

A comprehensive tool for visualizing and analyzing model execution, offering interactive graphs, memory plots, tensor details, buffer overviews, operation flow graphs, and multi-instance support with file or SSH-based report loading.

TT-Exalens

The TT-Exalens repository describes TT-Lensium, a low-level debugging tool for Tenstorrent hardware. It allows developers to access and communicate with Wormhole and Blackhole devices.

TT-SMI

The TT-SMI repository describes the Tenstorrent System Management Interface. This command line utility can interact with Tenstorrent devices on host. TT-SMI provides an easy to use interface displaying device, telemetry, and firmware information.

Model Explorer

The Model Explorer is an intuitive and hierarchical visualization tool using model graphs. It organizes model operations into nested layers and provides features for model exploration and debugging.

Tracy Profiler

The Tracy Profiler is a real-time nanosecond resolution, remote telemetry, hybrid frame, and sampling tool. Tracy supports profiling CPU, GPU, memory allocation, locks, context switches, and more.

Device Print Debug

DPRINT can print variables, addresses, and circular buffer data from kernels to the host terminal or log file. This feature is useful for debugging issues with kernels.

Watcher

Watcher monitors firmware and kernels for common programming errors, and overall device status. If an error or hang occurs, Watcher displays log data of that occurrence.

Inspector

Inspector provides insights into host runtime. It logs necessary data for investigation and allows queries to host runtime data.

Related Tenstorrent Projects

Latest Releases

| Release | Release Date | FW Version | KMD Version | SMI Version | |:---------:|:--------------:|:------------:|:--------:|:--------:| | 0.68.0 | ETA Apr 30, 2026 | 19.2.0 | 2.5.0 | 3.0.38 | | 0.67.4 | Mar 30, 2026 | 19.2.0 | 2.5.0 | 3.0.38 | | 0.67.0 | Mar 25, 2026 | 19.2.0 | 2.5.0 | 3.0.38 | | 0.66.0 | Feb 18, 2026 | 19.2.0 | 2.5.0 | 3.0.38 | | 0.65.1 | Jan 12, 2026 | 19.2.0 | 2.5.0 | 3.0.38 | | 0.65.0 | Dec 15, 2025 | 19.2.0 | 2.5.0 | 3.0.38 | | 0.64.5 | Dec 1, 2025 | 18.12.0 | 2.4.1 | 3.0.32 | | 0.64.4 | Nov 24, 2025 | 18.12.0 | 2.4.1 | 3.0.32 | | 0.64.3 | Nov 14, 2025 | 18.12.0 | 2.4.1 | 3.0.32 | | 0.64.0 | Oct 29, 2025 | 18.12.0 | 2.4.1 | 3.0.32 | | 0.63.0 | Sep 22, 2025 | 18.8.0 | 2.3.0 | 3.0.28 | | 0.62.2 | Aug 20, 2025 | 18.6.0 | 2.0.0 | 3.0.20 | | 0.61.0 | Skipped | - | - | - | | 0.60.1 | Jul 22, 2025 | 18.6.0 | 2.0.0 | 3.0.20 | | 0.59.0 | Jun 18, 2025 | - | - | - | | 0.58.0 | May 13, 2025 | - | - | - | | 0.57.0 | Apr 15, 2025 | - | - | - | | 0.56.0 | Mar 7, 2025 | - | - | - |

Visit the releases folder for details on releases, release notes, and estimated release dates.

Tenstorrent Bounty Program Terms and Conditions

This repo is a part of Tenstorrent’s bounty program. If you are interested in helping to improve tt-metal, please make sure to read the Tenstorrent Bounty Program Terms and Conditions before heading to the issues tab. Look for the issues that are tagged with both “bounty” and difficulty level!

License

TT-Metalium and TTNN are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License, as detailed in LICENSE and LICENSE_understanding.txt.

Some distributable forms of this project—such as manylinux-compliant wheels—may need to bundle additional libraries beyond the standard Linux system libraries. For example:

  • libnuma
  • libhwloc
  • openmpi (when built with multihost support)
  • libevent (when built with multihost support)
These libraries are bound by their own license terms.
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