Chip comparison
Cambricon MLU370-X8 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 | Cambricon MLU370-X8 | NVIDIA DRIVE Thor |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | TSMC N7 | TSMC 4NP |
| TDP | 250 W | 130 W |
| Memory | 48 GB LPDDR5 | 128 GB LPDDR5X |
| FP16 (dense) | 96 TFLOPS | — |
| FP8 (dense) | — | 2,000 TFLOPS |
| INT8 (dense) | 256 TOPS | 2,000 TOPS |
| Form factor | PCIe | Auto-board |
| Announced | 2022-03-25 | 2022-09-20 |
| Released | — | 2025-06-01 |
Robots running Cambricon MLU370-X8
No robots publicly running it yet.
Robots running NVIDIA DRIVE Thor
Data centers with Cambricon MLU370-X8
No data centers publicly running it yet.
Data centers with NVIDIA DRIVE Thor
No data centers publicly running it yet.
Common questions
Cambricon MLU370-X8 vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which is faster for training?
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor has 20.83x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (Cambricon MLU370-X8: 96 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.
Cambricon MLU370-X8 vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which has more memory?
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor carries more HBM (Cambricon MLU370-X8: 48 GB LPDDR5; NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: 128 GB LPDDR5X). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
Cambricon MLU370-X8 vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: Cambricon MLU370-X8 0.38 (96 ÷ 250 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.
Cambricon MLU370-X8 vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which is more widely used?
Cambricon MLU370-X8: 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 · Cambricon MLU370-X8 full page · NVIDIA DRIVE Thor full page.