Self-Driving Supercomputer Showdown: NVIDIA Drive Thor vs Tesla FSD Hardware 4 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride Flex
NVIDIA Drive Thor will enter production in 2025, delivering up to 1,000 TOPS per chip and design wins at Li Auto, ZEEKR, BYD, Hyper, and XPENG. Tesla’s HW4, shipping since 2023, uses two 7nm SoCs for 200 TOPS and supports 11 cameras plus radar. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Ride Flex, adopted by GM, Sony-Honda, and BMW, offers 16–24 TOPS per chip, scaling to 2,000 TOPS in multi-chip setups.