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Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board

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Re: Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board

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Post by jamesfmilne »

advancedprivacy wrote: post #2

I hoped that it might be affordable like the TK1 dev board. But the card sized one is 300$/1k and the dev board 600$... 300$ for students. http://www.anandtech.com/show/9779/nvidia-announces-jetson-t...

I'm sure you'll see a market in 3rd-party carrier boards & packages with the X1 module on it.

Love the fact that it's got a proper x4 PCIe slot on the dev kit.

Hopefully someone will sell the modules with a MOQ of less than 1k though!!

Re: Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board

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Post by venomsnake »

advancedprivacy wrote: post #2

I hoped that it might be affordable like the TK1 dev board. But the card sized one is 300$/1k and the dev board 600$... 300$ for students. http://www.anandtech.com/show/9779/nvidia-announces-jetson-t...

That is non starter I think. High performance expensive dev kits don't have good track record at facinating the market.

Re: Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board

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Post by unwind »

Very impressive, but it feels expensive to me. I'm cheap though.

The linked article was pretty light on the detail, and weirdly written. It never states how many cores the CPU has; I had to check Nvidia's page (http://www.nvidia.com/object/jetson-tx1-dev-kit.html) to find out: it's a quad-core so four cores.

Some pretty nice low-level embedded-style I/O on there too (GPIOs, I2C, I2S, SPI, TTL UART).

Re: Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board

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Post by fpp »

The price is quite a disappointment particularly when comparing to the Shield pricing (and how long NVidia has taken to present the kit - the X1 was introduced now almost a year ago / Shield on the market since early this year).

Let's see in the next days how performance of the board stacks up once the embargo on publishing test results is over.

Remember that the 1TFlops published is FP16 not FP32.

Re: Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board

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Post by pjc50 »

advancedprivacy wrote: post #2

I hoped that it might be affordable like the TK1 dev board. But the card sized one is 300$/1k and the dev board 600$... 300$ for students. http://www.anandtech.com/show/9779/nvidia-announces-jetson-t...

It's astonishingly beefy, with games-console (or more) levels of computing power. Very few people need that on an embedded board.

Re: Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board

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Post by bjackman »

pjc50 wrote: post #8
advancedprivacy wrote: post #2

I hoped that it might be affordable like the TK1 dev board. But the card sized one is 300$/1k and the dev board 600$... 300$ for students. http://www.anandtech.com/show/9779/nvidia-announces-jetson-t...

It's astonishingly beefy, with games-console (or more) levels of computing power. Very few people need that on an embedded board.

This isn't an "embedded board".. It's got a GPU, it's got PCIe, it's 64-bit with 4 cores.

Re: Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board

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Post by rwmj »

unwind wrote: post #6

Very impressive, but it feels expensive to me. I'm cheap though. The linked article was pretty light on the detail, and weirdly written. It never states how many cores the CPU has; I had to check Nvidia's page ( http://www.nvidia.com/object/jetson-tx1-dev-kit.html ) to find out: it's a quad-core so four cores. Some pretty nice low-level embedded-style I/O on there too (GPIOs, I2C, I2S, SPI, TTL UART).

According to Wikipedia it's 8 cores (big.LITTLE, so depending on the kernel and microarchitecture they might not all be usable at the same time):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra#Tegra_X1

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