Half the price, more TOPS: New Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit
The new Jetson Orin Nano Kit offers 70 percent more performance than its predecessor. The bundle of SoM and carrier board targets developers and hobbyists.
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Nvidia has updated the Jetson Orin Nano developer kit. According to the manufacturer, the new version, which Nvida has nicknamed "Super", is up to 68 percent faster than its predecessor thanks to a clock speed increase. Buyers of the previous basic version can request a new JetPack SDK, which subsequently activates the clock boost.
At 249 euros, the list price of the new model is around half that of the old model, which costs 499 euros. The update is necessary because mobile processors from AMD, Intel and Qualcomm now also integrate fast AI accelerators, which have recently become faster than the basic version of the Jetson Orin Nano.
Complete set of combined processor and board
Nvidia describes the Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit as a system-on-module (SoM): the board contains a soldered ARM processor with integrated graphics unit, RAM and all connections. Basically, it is a fast single-board computer, like a larger Raspi. The kit is aimed at both developers of AI applications and hobbyists who want to train their own AI models.
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Nvidia is not releasing a new processor for the Jetson Orin Nano Super – so the technology is no longer brand new: the processor combines six older ARM cores of the Cortex-A78AE type – the basic A78 design was introduced by ARM in 2020 – and a GPU with 1024 shader cores from Nvidia's penultimate generation Ampere. The latter was also used in the GeForce RTX 3000 series. 32 Tensor cores handle the matrix calculations for AI algorithms.
Nvidia achieves the additional performance by increasing the GPU clock rate from 635 to 1020 MHz. The Tensor cores thus manage 67 billion computing operations per second, i.e. 67 TOPS instead of the previous 40, in the common INT8 data format. Nvidia soldered faster LPDDR5-6400 memory to feed the arithmetic units with data more quickly. It transfers 102.4 GByte/s – 50 percent more than its predecessor. Large language models (LLMs) in particular benefit from this. It is unclear whether the SDK will also increase the memory clock on old boards.
The CPU cores get a small boost from 1.5 to 1.7 GHz. Without a new chip, Nvidia buys the additional performance through higher power consumption. The super version can be configured with 7 to 25 watts instead of the previous 7 to 15 watts.
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Many connections
The carrier board offers the usual connection ports, including Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbit/s) and USB-C, Displayport 1.2, two camera ports and dual M.2 slots with Key M and Key E for an NVMe SSD and a WLAN module.
Further details can be found on the Nvidia blog. The technical details can be found in the data sheet for the Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit. German retailers currently only list the old, slower version at a still high price of over 500 euros. Watch out: The Jetson Nano (without Orin) (starting from 244,23 €) uses a slower processor.
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