Chip comparison
NVIDIA B200 (Blackwell) 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 B200 (Blackwell) | NVIDIA DRIVE Thor |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | TSMC 4NP | TSMC 4NP |
| Transistors (B) | 208 | — |
| TDP | 1000 W | 130 W |
| Memory | 192 GB HBM3e | 128 GB LPDDR5X |
| Memory bandwidth | 8,000 GB/s | — |
| FP16 (dense) | 2,250 TFLOPS | — |
| BF16 (dense) | 2,250 TFLOPS | — |
| FP8 (dense) | 4,500 TFLOPS | 2,000 TFLOPS |
| INT8 (dense) | 4,500 TOPS | 2,000 TOPS |
| Form factor | SXM6 | Auto-board |
| Announced | 2024-03-18 | 2022-09-20 |
| Released | 2024-11-01 | 2025-06-01 |
Robots running NVIDIA B200 (Blackwell)
No robots publicly running it yet.
Robots running NVIDIA DRIVE Thor
Data centers with NVIDIA B200 (Blackwell)
Data centers with NVIDIA DRIVE Thor
No data centers publicly running it yet.
Common questions
NVIDIA B200 (Blackwell) vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which is faster for training?
NVIDIA B200 (Blackwell) has 2.25x the dense FP8 throughput of the other (NVIDIA B200 (Blackwell): 4,500 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 B200 (Blackwell) vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which has more memory?
NVIDIA B200 (Blackwell) carries more HBM (NVIDIA B200 (Blackwell): 192 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.
NVIDIA B200 (Blackwell) vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP8 TFLOPS per watt: NVIDIA B200 (Blackwell) 4.50 (4,500 ÷ 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.
NVIDIA B200 (Blackwell) vs NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: which is more widely used?
NVIDIA B200 (Blackwell): 0 robots and 3 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 B200 (Blackwell) full page · NVIDIA DRIVE Thor full page.