NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX

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Welcome to RidgeRun's guide to NVIDIA®Jetson Orin NX™



NVIDIA®Jetson Orin NX™ is a member of the NVIDIA®Jetson Orin system-on-module (SoM) family.

NVIDIA Jetson Orin AGX SoM

What is new in Orin NX?


The NVIDIA®Jetson Orin NX™ is a system-on-module that was designed with on-edge AI computing and low-power consumption in mind. NVIDIA® Jetson Orin NX™ comes in two flavors, the 8GB and 16GB modules. Here is a summary of its main features:

  • CPU Complex: The Orin NX 16GB has an 8-core Arm A78AE CPU and the Orin NX 8GB has a 6-core Arm A78AE CPU.
  • GPU Architecture: Orin NX comes with NVIDIA Ampere GPUs (1024 CUDA cores and 32 Tensor cores).
  • Memory: 8GB 128-bit LPDDR5 DRAM (Orin NX 8GB) and 16GB 128-bit LPDDR5 DRAM (Orin NX 16GB).
  • Memory Bandwidth: 102 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
  • On Edge AI Performance: Up to 275 TOPS (INT8) on AGX Orin 64GB.
  • Optical Flow Accelerator: Only available on AGX Orin, it targets stereo disparity and optical flow estimation.
  • Improved Deep Learning Accelerator: Orin NX 8GB comes with one NVDLA unit while Orin NX 16GB brings two NVDLAs.
  • MIPI C-PHY v2.0: Up to 20 Gbps with 8 MIPI CSI-2 lanes (2.5Gbps per lane).


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