Chip comparison
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor vs NVIDIA T4 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 T4 Tensor Core GPU |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | TSMC 4NP | TSMC 12FFN |
| Transistors (B) | — | 13.6 |
| Die size | — | 545 mm² |
| TDP | 130 W | 70 W |
| Memory | 128 GB LPDDR5X | 16 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bandwidth | — | 320 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | — | 65 TFLOPS |
| FP8 (dense) | 2,000 TFLOPS | — |
| INT8 (dense) | 2,000 TOPS | 130 TOPS |
| Form factor | Auto-board | PCIe (single-slot, low-profile) |
| Announced | 2022-09-20 | 2018-09-13 |
| Released | 2025-06-01 | 2019-01-01 |
Robots running NVIDIA DRIVE Thor
Robots running NVIDIA T4 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 T4 Tensor Core GPU
No data centers publicly running it yet.
Common questions
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor vs NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU: which is faster for training?
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor has 30.77x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: 2,000 TFLOPS; NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU: 65 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 T4 Tensor Core GPU: which has more memory?
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor carries more HBM (NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: 128 GB LPDDR5X; NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU: 16 GB GDDR6). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor vs NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: NVIDIA DRIVE Thor 15.38 (2,000 ÷ 130 W); NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU 0.93 (65 ÷ 70 W). NVIDIA DRIVE Thor wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor vs NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU: which is more widely used?
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor: 11 robots and 0 data centers publicly running it. NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU: 0 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 DRIVE Thor full page · NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU full page.