Nvidia Jetson

Nvidia Jetson is a series of embedded computing boards from Nvidia. The Jetson TK1, TX1 and TX2 models all carry a Tegra processor (or SoC)
from Nvidia that integrates an ARM architecture central processing unit (CPU). Jetson is a low-power system and is designed for accelerating
machine learning applications.

Hardware
The Jetson family includes the following boards:

In late April 2014, Nvidia shipped the Nvidia Jetson TK1 development board containing a Tegra
K1 SoC in the T124 variant and running Ubuntu Linux.[1]
The Nvidia Jetson TX1 development board bears a Tegra X1 of model T210.[2]
The Nvidia Jetson TX2 board bears a Tegra X2 of microarchitecture GP10B[3] (SoC type T186
or very similar). This board and the associated development platform was announced in March
2017 as a compact card design for low power scenarios, e.g. for the use in smaller camera
drones such as the Skydio 2[4]. A matrix describing a set of performance modes was provided Nvidia Jetson TK1
by the media along with that.[5] Further a TX2i variant, said to be rugged and suitable for
industrial use cases, is mentioned.[6]
The Nvidia Jetson Xavier was announced as a development kit in end of August 2018. Indications were given that a 20x
acceleration for certain application cases compared to predecessor devices should be expected, and that the application power
efficiency is 10x improved. Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX has a 6-core Nvidia Carmel ARMv8.2.

The Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier is the 8-core version on the same core architecture (Carmel Armv8.2).[7]

The Nvidia Jetson Nano was announced as a development system in mid-March 2019[8] The
intended market is for hobbyist robotics due to the low price point.[9][10] The final specs expose
the board being sort of a power-optimized, stripped-down version of what a full Tegra X1
system would mean. Only half of the CPU (only 4x A57 @ 1.43 GHz) and GPU (128 cores of
Maxwell generation @ 921 MHz) cores are present and only half of the maximum possible
RAM is attached (4 GB LPDDR4 @ 64 bit + 1.6 GHz = 25.6 GB/s) whilst the available or
usable interfacing is determined by the baseboard design and is further subject of
implementation decisions and specifics in an end user specific design for an application
case.[11]

The Nvidia Jetson Nano Developer Kit.[12][13]

In September 2022 Nvidia announced the Jetson Orin Nano.[14][15] The modules have the An Nvidia Jetson Nano developer kit
same 260-pin SO-DIMM connector and 69.6 mm x 45 mm dimensions, and come in two
variants. The 4 GB variant provides 20 Sparse or 10 Dense TOPs, using a 512-core Ampere
GPU with 16 Tensor cores, while the 8 GB variant doubles those numbers to 40/20 TOPs, a
1024-core GPU and 16 Tensor cores. Both have 6 Arm Cortex-A78AE cores. The 4 GB module
starts at $199 and the 8 GB variant for $299, when purchasing 1000 units.
In December 2024, Nvidia announced the updated Orin Nano with a claimed 1.7x performance
improvement and a price reduction of the development kit from $499 to $249 [16]

Performance
An Nvidia Jetson Orin developer kit
The published performance modes of the Nvidia Jetson TX2 are as follows.

Mode Max Clocks (Denver 2 + A57) Max-P (Denver 2 + A57) Max-P (only Denver 2) Max-P (only A57) Max-Q (only A57)

GPU clock (MHz) 1302 1122 854

Denver 2 clock (MHz) 2000 1400 2000 stopped stopped

Cortex-A57 (MHz) 2000+ 1400 stopped 2000 1200

TDP / W might vary 15 15 15 7.5

Jetson TX2 also has 5 power modes, numbered 0 through 4 as published by NVIDIA.[17] The default mode is mode 3 (MAX-P).
 Jetson TX2 clock configuration with power modes
MAX-N MAX-Q MAX-P MAX-P* MAX-P
Property (Mode 0) (Mode 1) (Mode 2) (Mode 3) (Mode 4)

Power
N/A 7.5W 15W 15W 15W
budget

Online
A57 4 4 4 4 1
CPU

Online
D15 2 0 2 0 1
CPU
A57
CPU
2000 1200 1400 2000 345
max freq
(MHz)

D15
CPU
2000 N/A 1400 N/A 2000
max freq
(MHz)

GPU
max freq 1300 850 1122 1122 1122
(MHz)
Memory
max freq 1866 1331 1600 1600 1600
(MHz)

The published operation modes of the Nvidia Jetson Nano are:

Mode 0 1
GPU clock (MHz) 921 640

2x 918
Cortex-A57 (MHz) 4x 1428
2x stopped

TDP / W 10 5

Versions
There are various versions of the Jetson board available. Some of them are:

Year Version Performance GPU CPU Memory Power

256-core Nvidia Pascal architecture Dual-core Nvidia Denver 2 64-bit CPU and 7.5–
2017 Jetson TX2[18] 1.33 TFLOPS
GPU quad-core ARM Cortex-A57 MPCore processor
8 GiB
15 W

Jetson AGX 512-core Nvidia Volta architecture 8-core NVIDIA Carmel ARMv8.2 64-bit CPU 32–64 10W -
2018 32 TOPS
Xavier[19] GPU with 64 Tensor cores 8MB L2 + 4MB L3 GiB 30W

128-core Nvidia Maxwell architecture

2019 Jetson Nano 472 GFLOPS Quad-core ARM Cortex-A57 MPCore processor 4 GiB 5–10 W
GPU

Jetson Xavier 384-core Nvidia Volta architecture 6-core Nvidia Carmel ARMv8.2 64-bit CPU
2020 21 TOPS 8 GiB 10–20W
NX GPU with 48 Tensor cores 6MB L2 + 4MB L3
Jetson Orin from 512-core Nvidia Ampere 6-core ARM Cortex-A78AE v8.2 64-bit CPU
2023 20–40 TOPS 4–8 GiB 7–10 W
Nano[20] architecture GPU with 16 Tensor cores 1.5MB L2 + 4MB L3

1024-core Nvidia Ampere architecture up to 8-core ARM Cortex-A78AE v8.2 64-bit 10–
2023 Jetson Orin NX 70–100 TOPS 8–16 GiB
GPU with 32 Tensor cores CPU 2MB L2 + 4MB L3 25 W
Jetson AGX 200-275 up to 2048-core Nvidia Ampere up to 12-core ARM Cortex-A78AE v8.2 64-bit 32–64 15–
2023
Orin TOPS architecture GPU with 64 Tensor cores CPU 3MB L2 + 6MB L3 GiB 60 W

Software
Various operating systems and software might be able to run on the Jetson board series.

Linux
JetPack is a software development kit (SDK) from Nvidia for their Jetson board series. It includes the Linux for Tegra (L4T) operating system and
other tools. The official Nvidia download page bears an entry for JetPack 3.2 (uploaded there on 2018-03-08) that states:
 JetPack 3.2 adds support for the Linux for Tegra r28.2 image for the Jetson OS. It is packaged with newer versions of Tegra System
Profiler, TensorRT, and cuDNN from the last release.[21]

RedHawk Linux is a high-performance RTOS available for the Jetson platform, along with associated NightStar real-time development tools,
CUDA/GPU enhancements, and a framework for hardware-in-the-loop and man-in-the-loop simulations.[22]

QNX
The QNX operating system also available for the Jetson platform, though it is not widely announced. There are success reports of installing and
running specific QNX packages on certain Nvidia Jetson board variants. Namely the package qnx-V3Q-23.16.01 that is seemingly in parts based on
Nvidia's Vibrante Linux distribution is reported to run on the Jetson TK1 Pro board.[23]

See also
Computer vision
Raspberry Pi
Movidius neural compute stick

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