Chip comparison
Huawei Ascend 910B 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 | Huawei Ascend 910B | NVIDIA DRIVE Thor |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | SMIC N+2 (~7nm) | TSMC 4NP |
| TDP | 400 W | 130 W |
| Memory | 64 GB HBM2e | 128 GB LPDDR5X |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,600 GB/s | — |
| FP16 (dense) | 400 TFLOPS | — |
| BF16 (dense) | 400 TFLOPS | — |
| FP8 (dense) | — | 2,000 TFLOPS |
| INT8 (dense) | 800 TOPS | 2,000 TOPS |
| Form factor | OAM (Atlas 300T A2) | Auto-board |
| Announced | 2023-08-01 | 2022-09-20 |
| Released | 2023-08-01 | 2025-06-01 |
Robots running Huawei Ascend 910B
Robots running NVIDIA DRIVE Thor
Data centers with Huawei Ascend 910B
Data centers with NVIDIA DRIVE Thor
No data centers publicly running it yet.
Common questions
Huawei Ascend 910B vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which is faster for training?
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor has 5.00x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (Huawei Ascend 910B: 400 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.
Huawei Ascend 910B vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which has more memory?
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor carries more HBM (Huawei Ascend 910B: 64 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.
Huawei Ascend 910B vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: Huawei Ascend 910B 1.00 (400 ÷ 400 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.
Huawei Ascend 910B vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which is more widely used?
Huawei Ascend 910B: 2 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 · Huawei Ascend 910B full page · NVIDIA DRIVE Thor full page.