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. The Nvidia Jetson TX1 development board bears a Tegra X1 of model T210. The Nvidia Jetson TX2 board bears a Tegra X2 of microarchitecture GP10BNVIDIA Rolls Out Tegra X2 GPU Support In Nouveau by Michael Larabel at phoronix.com on March 29, 2017 (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. A matrix describing a set of performance modes was provided by the media along with that., March 7, 2017 Further a TX2i variant, said to be rugged and suitable for industrial use cases, is mentioned. 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).

The Nvidia Jetson Nano was announced as a development system in mid-March 2019 The intended market is for hobbyist robotics due to the low price point. 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.NVIDIA Introduces $99 Jetson Nano Developer Kit by Jean-Luc Aufranc on March 19, 2019 on CNXSoft The Nvidia Jetson Nano Developer Kit.Links to Jetson Nano Resources & WikiNvidia Jetson Developer Kit User Guide

In September 2022 Nvidia announced the Jetson Orin Nano. The modules have the 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 In August 2025, the Jetson AGX Thor was released. It features 128 GiB memory and a Blackwell GPU capable of 2,070 FP4 TFLOPS. Nvidia claims the AGX Thor delivers 7.5x more computing power and 3.5x the efficiency compared to the previous generation Orin.

Performance There are various versions of the Jetson board available. Year Name Performance GPU DLA CPU Memory Power 2014 Jetson TK1 0.327 Dense FP32 Total TFLOPS 192-core Nvidia Kepler architecture GPU Quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 processor 2 GiB 10 W 2015 Jetson TX1 1.024 Dense FP16 TFLOPS 256-core Nvidia Maxwell architecture GPU Quad-core ARM Cortex-A57 MPCore processor 4 GiB 10 W 2017 Jetson TX2 1.333 Dense FP16 TFLOPS 256-core Nvidia Pascal architecture GPU Dual-core Nvidia Denver 2 64-bit CPU and quad-core ARM Cortex-A57 MPCore processor 8 GiB 7.5–15 W 2018 Jetson AGX Xavier 30-32 Dense INT8 Total TOPS 512-core Nvidia Volta architecture GPU with 64 Tensor cores 2 8-core NVIDIA Carmel ARMv8.2 64-bit CPU 8MB L2 + 4MB L3 32–64 GiB 10-40 W 2019 Jetson Nano 0.472 Dense FP16 TFLOPS 128-core Nvidia Maxwell architecture GPU Quad-core ARM Cortex-A57 MPCore processor 4 GiB 5–10 W 2020 Jetson Xavier NX 21 Dense INT8 Total TOPS 384-core Nvidia Volta architecture GPU with 48 Tensor cores 2 6-core Nvidia Carmel ARMv8.2 64-bit CPU 6MB L2 + 4MB L3 8 GiB 10–20 W 2023 Jetson Orin Nano 34–67 Sparse INT8 TOPS up to 1024-core Nvidia Ampere architecture GPU with 32 Tensor cores 6-core ARM Cortex-A78AE v8.2 64-bit CPU 1.5MB L2 + 4MB L3 4–8 GiB 7–25 W 2023 Jetson Orin NX 117–157 Sparse INT8 Total TOPS 1024-core Nvidia Ampere architecture GPU with 32 Tensor cores 1-2 up to 8-core ARM Cortex-A78AE v8.2 64-bit CPU 2MB L2 + 4MB L3 8–16 GiB 10–40 W 2023 Jetson AGX Orin 200-275 Sparse INT8 Total TOPS up to 2048-core Nvidia Ampere architecture GPU with 64 Tensor cores 2 up to 12-core ARM Cortex-A78AE v8.2 64-bit CPU 3MB L2 + 6MB L3 32–64 GiB 15–60 W 2025 Jetson AGX Thor 2,070 FP4 TFLOPS 2560-core Nvidia Blackwell architecture GPU with 96 Tensor cores 14-core ARM Neoverse-V3AE 64-bit CPU 1MB L2 + 16MB L3 128 GiB 130 W

Maxwell architecture The published operation modes of the Nvidia Jetson Nano are: Mode 0 1 GPU clock (MHz) 921 640 Cortex-A57 (MHz) 4x 1428 2x 9182x stopped TDP (W) 10 5

Pascal architecture + Jetson TX2 Series Comparison Table Product Name GPU PerformanceDense TensorFP16 TFLOPS MemoryGB StorageGB PowerW Jetson TX2 NX 1.33 4 16 7.5, 15 Jetson TX2 4GB 1.33 4 16 7.5, 15 Jetson TX2i 1.26 8 32 10, 20 Jetson TX2 1.33 8 32 7.5, 15

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. The default mode is mode 3 (MAX-P). +Jetson TX2 clock configuration with power modesPropertyMAX-N(Mode 0)MAX-Q(Mode 1)MAX-P(Mode 2)MAX-P*(Mode 3)MAX-P(Mode 4)Power budgetN/A7.5W15W15W15WOnline A57 CPU44441Online D15 CPU20201A57 CPU max freq (MHz)2000120014002000345D15 CPU max freq (MHz)2000N/A1400N/A2000GPU max freq (MHz)1300850112211221122Memory max freq (MHz)18661331160016001600

Volta architecture + Jetson Xavier Series Comparison Table Product Name GPU PerformanceDense TensorINT8 TOPS DLA PerformanceDense TensorINT8 TOPS MemoryGB StorageGB PowerW Jetson Xavier NX 13 8 8 16 10, 15, 20 Jetson Xavier NX 16GB 13 8 16 16 10, 15, 20 Jetson AGX Xavier 22 10 32 32 10, 15, 30 Jetson AGX Xavier Industrial 20 10 32 32 20, 40 Jetson AGX Xavier 64GB 22 10 64 64 10, 15, 30

Ampere architecture + Jetson Orin Series Comparison Table Product Name GPU PerformanceDense TensorINT8 TOPS DLA PerformanceDense TensorINT8 TOPS MemoryGB StorageGB PowerW Jetson Orin Nano 4GB 17 4 7, 10, 25 Jetson Orin Nano 8GB 33 8 7, 15, 25 Jetson Orin NX 8GB 38 20 8 10, 15, 25, 40 Jetson Orin NX 16GB 38 40 16 10, 15, 25, 40 Jetson AGX Orin 32GB 54 46 32 64 15, 40 Jetson AGX Orin Industrial 78 46 64 64 15, 75 Jetson AGX Orin 64GB 85 52.5 64 64 15, 60

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:

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.

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.

Reported military and export-control issues

In August 2026, Ukrainian military intelligence alleged that a Jetson Orin module was present in Russia's S-71 'Monochrome' cruise missile, though Nvidia stated the product is not export-controlled and not officially sold in Russia.

The module in question is reportedly an Orin NX 8GB/16GB, rated up to 157 sparse INT8 TOPS on an Ampere-architecture GPU with 1024 CUDA cores, and has been shipping commercially since 2023.

The specific module (Orin NX 8GB/16GB), its spec (up to 157 sparse INT8 TOPS, Ampere GPU, 1024 CUDA cores), and shipping history (available since 2023).

See also Computer vision Raspberry Pi Movidius neural compute stick

References

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