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Nvidia has announced a cheaper version of its $99 Jetson Nano developer kit. The Jetson Nano pairs a quad-core Cortex-A57 ARM CPU with 128 Maxwell GPU cores. The new model has 2 GiB of RAM instead of 4 GiB, drops one of the four USB ports (which may be USB 2.0 instead of 3.0), and drops DisplayPort output.
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Nvidia Announces Jetson Nano Dev Kit & Board: X1 for $99
Today at GTC 2019 Nvidia launched a new member of the Jetson family: The new Jetson Nano. The Jetson family of products represents Nvidia new focus on robotics, AI and autonomous machine applications. A few months back we had the pleasure to have a high level review of the Jetson AGX as well as the Xavier chip that powers it. The biggest concern of the AGX dev kit was its pricing – with retail costs of $2500 ($1299 as part of Nvidia's developer programme), it's massively out of range of most hobbyist users such as our readers.
[...] The Jetson Nano is a full blown single-board-computer in the form of a module. The module form-factor and connector is SO-DIMM and is similar to past Nvidia modules by the company. The goal of the form-factor is to have the most compact form-factor possible, as it is envisioned to be used in a wide variety of applications where a possible customer will design their own connector boards best fit for their design needs.
At the heart of the Nano module we find Nvidia's "Erista" chip which also powered the Tegra X1 in the Nvidia Shield as well as the Nintendo Switch. The variant used in the Nano is a cut-down version though, as the 4 A57 cores only clock up to 1.43GHz and the GPU only has half the cores (128 versus 256 in the full X1) active. The module comes with 4GB of LPDDR4 and a 16GB eMMC module. The Jetson Nano module will be available to interested parties for $129.
$99 without storage.
Related: Nvidia Reveals Jetson Xavier SoC for Robots
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 05 2020, @11:17PM (4 children)
No NVDLA so the selling point is 128 CUDA cores, aside from learning the SDK what practically would you do with it?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday October 06 2020, @12:34AM
It's a compact "powerful low energy edge" system - you can (probably, with a lot of work) run pretty good facial recognition, or a license plate reader, or similar stuff.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Tuesday October 06 2020, @01:07AM (1 child)
It will run emulators/games better than Raspberry Pi 4. The GPU is the only real selling point, and that 4x Cortex-A57 is getting old. A72 ranges from 16-50% better [tomshardware.com] at the same frequency which might not matter if the GPU is the bottleneck, and the Nintendo Switch also uses A57, at a lower frequency.
Cutting the RAM in half to 2 GiB isn't going to be good for some machine learning workloads. If you look at the RK3399Pro, that's an ARM chip with a 4 GiB memory limit, but the SoC's NPU can use a separate bank of up to 4 GiB.
Here's a paper that shows the Jetson Nano crushing Raspberry Pi 4 using a Convolutional Neural Network model:
10.1109/HORA49412.2020.9152915
As the dataset size increases, the Jetson TX2 ($400 with 8 GiB RAM) uses up to 6.5 GB in the test, so the Nano and Pi have to tap out. The Pi takes about 5-6x longer than the Nano. There's some problems with the paper but they're Turkish computer scientists so eh, whatever.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday October 06 2020, @02:38AM
You wouldn't use this to learn/train, but it should be pretty killer for running the nets once they're trained.
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(Score: 2) by SunTzuWarmaster on Tuesday October 06 2020, @06:37PM