Chip comparison
NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU 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 | NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU | NVIDIA DRIVE Thor |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | Samsung 8N | TSMC 4NP |
| Transistors (B) | 28.3 | — |
| Die size | 628 mm² | — |
| TDP | 150 W | 130 W |
| Memory | 24 GB GDDR6 | 128 GB LPDDR5X |
| Memory bandwidth | 600 GB/s | — |
| FP16 (dense) | 125 TFLOPS | — |
| BF16 (dense) | 125 TFLOPS | — |
| FP8 (dense) | — | 2,000 TFLOPS |
| INT8 (dense) | 250 TOPS | 2,000 TOPS |
| Form factor | PCIe | Auto-board |
| Announced | 2021-04-12 | 2022-09-20 |
| Released | 2021-04-12 | 2025-06-01 |
Robots running NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU
No robots publicly running it yet.
Robots running NVIDIA DRIVE Thor
Data centers with NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU
No data centers publicly running it yet.
Data centers with NVIDIA DRIVE Thor
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Common questions
NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which is faster for training?
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor has 16.00x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU: 125 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.
NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which has more memory?
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor carries more HBM (NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU: 24 GB GDDR6; NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: 128 GB LPDDR5X). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU 0.83 (125 ÷ 150 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.
NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which is more widely used?
NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU: 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 · NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU full page · NVIDIA DRIVE Thor full page.