Chip comparison
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor vs NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU
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 DRIVE Thor | NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | TSMC 4NP | TSMC 4N |
| Transistors (B) | — | 80 |
| Die size | — | 814 mm² |
| TDP | 130 W | 700 W |
| Memory | 128 GB LPDDR5X | 141 GB HBM3e |
| Memory bandwidth | — | 4,800 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | — | 989 TFLOPS |
| BF16 (dense) | — | 989 TFLOPS |
| FP8 (dense) | 2,000 TFLOPS | 1,979 TFLOPS |
| INT8 (dense) | 2,000 TOPS | 1,979 TOPS |
| Form factor | Auto-board | SXM5 |
| Announced | 2022-09-20 | 2023-11-13 |
| Released | 2025-06-01 | 2024-03-01 |
Robots running NVIDIA DRIVE Thor
Robots running NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU
No robots publicly running it yet.
Data centers with NVIDIA DRIVE Thor
No data centers publicly running it yet.
Data centers with NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU
Common questions
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor vs NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU: which is faster for training?
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor has 1.01x the dense FP8 throughput of the other (NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: 2,000 TFLOPS; NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU: 1,979 TFLOPS). Real-world training speed also depends on memory bandwidth, interconnect, and software stack: see the spec diff for those inputs.
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor vs NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU: which has more memory?
NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU carries more HBM (NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: 128 GB LPDDR5X; NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU: 141 GB HBM3e). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor vs NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP8 TFLOPS per watt: NVIDIA DRIVE Thor 15.38 (2,000 ÷ 130 W); NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU 2.83 (1,979 ÷ 700 W). NVIDIA DRIVE Thor wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor vs NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU: which is more widely used?
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: 11 robots and 0 data centers publicly running it. NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU: 0 robots and 4 data centers. Empty here means no operator has said publicly, not zero adoption in the market.
See also: every chip comparison · NVIDIA DRIVE Thor full page · NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU full page.