Chip comparison
AMD Instinct MI250X vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor
Side-by-side specs
Straight from each vendor's datasheet. Winner in bold: higher throughput, memory, or transistor count; lower power draw or price. Sparse (2:4) throughput roughly doubles the FP8/INT8 numbers shown.
| Field | AMD Instinct MI250X | NVIDIA DRIVE Thor |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | TSMC N6 | TSMC 4NP |
| TDP | 560 W | 130 W |
| Memory | 128 GB HBM2e | 128 GB LPDDR5X |
| Memory bandwidth | 3,200 GB/s | — |
| FP16 (dense) | 383 TFLOPS | — |
| BF16 (dense) | 383 TFLOPS | — |
| FP8 (dense) | — | 2,000 TFLOPS |
| INT8 (dense) | 383 TOPS | 2,000 TOPS |
| Form factor | OAM | Auto-board |
| Announced | 2021-11-08 | 2022-09-20 |
| Released | 2022-06-01 | 2025-06-01 |
Robots running AMD Instinct MI250X
No robots publicly running it yet.
Robots running NVIDIA DRIVE Thor
Data centers with AMD Instinct MI250X
No data centers publicly running it yet.
Data centers with NVIDIA DRIVE Thor
No data centers publicly running it yet.
Common questions
AMD Instinct MI250X vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which is faster for training?
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor has 5.22x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (AMD Instinct MI250X: 383 TFLOPS; NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: 2,000 TFLOPS). Real-world training speed also depends on memory bandwidth, interconnect, and software stack: see the spec diff for those inputs.
AMD Instinct MI250X vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which has more memory?
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor carries more HBM (AMD Instinct MI250X: 128 GB HBM2e; NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: 128 GB LPDDR5X). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
AMD Instinct MI250X vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: AMD Instinct MI250X 0.68 (383 ÷ 560 W); NVIDIA DRIVE Thor 15.38 (2,000 ÷ 130 W). NVIDIA DRIVE Thor wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.
AMD Instinct MI250X vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which is more widely used?
AMD Instinct MI250X: 0 robots and 0 data centers publicly running it. NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: 11 robots and 0 data centers. Empty here means no operator has said publicly, not zero adoption in the market.
See also: every chip comparison · AMD Instinct MI250X full page · NVIDIA DRIVE Thor full page.