Announcement from NVIDIA : NVIDIA DriveOS 7.2.5 Now Available

Autonomous Vehicles DRIVE AGX Thor DRIVE AGX Thor General
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We are pleased to announce our DriveOS 7.2.5 software release for DRIVE AGX Thor.

DriveOS 7.2.5 includes the following benefits:

  • A modernized core development stack with Ubuntu 24.04, Linux Kernel Noble 6.8, CUDA 13.3, cuDNN 9.23.0, GCC 13.2, and Yocto 5.0, providing a secure, current foundation for building and optimizing high-performance GPU-accelerated applications.

  • Improved NVIDIA TensorRT™ 11 inference performance, optimization flexibility, and memory efficiency, helping developers build faster, more capable pipelines for production deep learning models.

  • TensorRT Edge-LLM enables efficient on-device large language model inference on Thor, with documented quantize, export, build, and infer workflows for bringing speech, text, and AI assistant workloads onto the DriveOS stack.

  • TensorRT Model Connect, a new platform that provides broad support for AI models on DRIVE AGX hardware - available on GitHub.

  • Enhanced PVA compute integration provides an updated PVA Algorithms Library, cuPVA-CUDA interoperability, full NvSciSync integration, and real-time utilization reporting, helping developers build low-latency, observable vision processing pipelines on Thor.

  • GPU Hardware Scheduling and Quality of Service helps developers run concurrent autonomous driving, AI inference, digital cluster, and infotainment workloads within a single VM, while built-in GPU recovery mechanisms help applications continue running without requiring a system reboot.

  • IDE-integrated Docker workflows and the upgraded Nsight suite give ecosystem developers a more productive environment for building, debugging, profiling, and optimizing DNN workloads.

  • Added Camera SDK resources to support camera driver development and integration on DriveOS, enabling camera integration developers to accelerate support for custom camera solutions.

  • A curated set of DriveOS Skills that equip your AI coding agent with step-by-step workflows to set up a DRIVE AGX Thor DevKit and to build, validate, and deploy applications with DriveOS. The Skills are available through Additional Packages on NGC

  • DriveOS 7.2.5. adds software support for DRIVE AGX Thor SKU 10 and SKU 12 Developer Kit hardware revisions with updated Infineon 10 Gb Ethernet PHY and Realtek Ethernet Switch devices, helping ecosystem customers deploy on current Thor boards. See the Product Compatibility Notification for revision details.

Get Started With the DRIVE AGX Thor Developer Kit

This advanced developer kit is an open and scalable platform purpose-built for automotive hardware and software development. It delivers more than 2000 FP4 TFLOPS (1000 INT8 TOPS) and a rich set of I/O for sensor and vehicle bus integration, including GMSL, Ethernet, PCIe, and USB.

Two versions of the developer kit are available: a benchtop unit (SKU10) and an in-vehicle unit (SKU12).

Ready to get started?

We look forward to seeing the incredible solutions you build with the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor platform.