Chip comparison
AMD Instinct MI350 series 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 MI350 series | NVIDIA DRIVE Thor |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | TSMC N3 (chiplet) | TSMC 4NP |
| TDP | 1000 W | 130 W |
| Memory | 288 GB HBM3e | 128 GB LPDDR5X |
| Memory bandwidth | 8,000 GB/s | — |
| FP16 (dense) | 2,300 TFLOPS | — |
| BF16 (dense) | 2,300 TFLOPS | — |
| FP8 (dense) | 4,600 TFLOPS | 2,000 TFLOPS |
| INT8 (dense) | 4,600 TOPS | 2,000 TOPS |
| Form factor | OAM | Auto-board |
| Announced | 2025-06-12 | 2022-09-20 |
| Released | 2025-10-01 | 2025-06-01 |
Robots running AMD Instinct MI350 series
No robots publicly running it yet.
Robots running NVIDIA DRIVE Thor
Data centers with AMD Instinct MI350 series
Data centers with NVIDIA DRIVE Thor
No data centers publicly running it yet.
Common questions
AMD Instinct MI350 series vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which is faster for training?
AMD Instinct MI350 series has 2.30x the dense FP8 throughput of the other (AMD Instinct MI350 series: 4,600 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 MI350 series vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which has more memory?
AMD Instinct MI350 series carries more HBM (AMD Instinct MI350 series: 288 GB HBM3e; 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 MI350 series vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP8 TFLOPS per watt: AMD Instinct MI350 series 4.60 (4,600 ÷ 1000 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 MI350 series vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which is more widely used?
AMD Instinct MI350 series: 0 robots and 1 data center 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 MI350 series full page · NVIDIA DRIVE Thor full page.