Nvidia Launches Jetson Xavier as Fastest AI Supercomputer in a Size of Debit Card
Nvidia has announced a new Jetson SOC, Xavier NX which is touted as world’s smallest supercomputer. So how small is this? Smaller than the size of a credit/debit card. This mini supercomputer can perform 21 TOPS while consuming less than 10 Watts / 15 Watt mode.
The Jetson Xavier NX is powered by a low-power version of the Tegra Xavier SoC. The configuration includes:
| CPU | 6-core NVIDIA Carmel 64-bit ARMv8.2 @ 1400MHz* (6MB L2 + 4MB L3) |
| GPU | 384-core NVIDIA Volta @ 1100MHz with 48 Tensor Cores |
| DL | Dual NVIDIA Deep Learning Accelerator (NVDLA) engines |
| Memory | 8GB 128-bit LPDDR4x @ 1600MHz | 51.2GB/s |
| Storage | 16GB eMMC 5.1 |
| Encoder† | (2x) 4Kp30 | (6x) 1080p60 | (12x) 1080p30 Maximum throughput up to (2x) 464MP/s – H.265 Main |
| Decoder† | (2x) 4Kp60 | (4x) 4Kp30 | (12x) 1080p60 | (32x) 1080p30 Maximum throughput up to (2x) 690MP/s – H.265 Main |
| Camera†† | (12x) MIPI CSI-2 lanes | 3×4 or 6×2 camerasUp to 6 cameras (36 via virtual channels) |
| Display | (2x) DP 1.4 / eDP 1.4 / HDMI 2.0 a/b @ 4Kp60 |
| Ethernet | 10/100/1000 BASE-T Ethernet |
| USB | USB 3.1 (10Gbps) + (3x) USB 2.0 |
| PCIe‡ | (2x) PCIe Gen 3 controllers, 5 lanes | 1×1 + 1×1/2/4 |
| Misc I/Os | (3x) UART, (2x) SPI, (2x) I2C, I2S, CAN, GPIOs |
| Socket | 260-pin SODIMM edge connector, 70x45mm |
| Thermals^ | -25°C to 90°C (Tj) |
| Power | 10W / 15W modes, 5V input |
Jetson Xavier NX is supported by NVIDIA’s complete CUDA-X software stack and Jetpack SDK for AI development.
NVIDIA also announced that it captured the top spot in 4 out of 5 categories from the MLPerf Inference 0.5 benchmarks, of which Jetson AGX Xavier was the leader among edge computing SoC’s, including all of the vision-based tasks
The Jetson Xavier NX module will be available in March 2020 for $399 in volume
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