Chip comparison
AMD Instinct MI300X 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 MI300X | NVIDIA DRIVE Thor |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | TSMC N5 + N6 (chiplet) | TSMC 4NP |
| Transistors (B) | 153 | — |
| TDP | 750 W | 130 W |
| Memory | 192 GB HBM3 | 128 GB LPDDR5X |
| Memory bandwidth | 5,300 GB/s | — |
| FP16 (dense) | 1,307 TFLOPS | — |
| BF16 (dense) | 1,307 TFLOPS | — |
| FP8 (dense) | 2,614 TFLOPS | 2,000 TFLOPS |
| INT8 (dense) | 2,614 TOPS | 2,000 TOPS |
| Launch price (list) | $15,000 | — |
| Form factor | OAM | Auto-board |
| Announced | 2023-12-06 | 2022-09-20 |
| Released | 2024-01-01 | 2025-06-01 |
Robots running AMD Instinct MI300X
No robots publicly running it yet.
Robots running NVIDIA DRIVE Thor
Data centers with AMD Instinct MI300X
No data centers publicly running it yet.
Data centers with NVIDIA DRIVE Thor
No data centers publicly running it yet.
Common questions
AMD Instinct MI300X vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which is faster for training?
AMD Instinct MI300X has 1.31x the dense FP8 throughput of the other (AMD Instinct MI300X: 2,614 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 MI300X vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which has more memory?
AMD Instinct MI300X carries more HBM (AMD Instinct MI300X: 192 GB HBM3; 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 MI300X vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP8 TFLOPS per watt: AMD Instinct MI300X 3.49 (2,614 ÷ 750 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 MI300X vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which is more widely used?
AMD Instinct MI300X: 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 MI300X full page · NVIDIA DRIVE Thor full page.