Our NVIDIA Jetson Orin and NVIDIA Jetson Xavier comparison

The ultra-compact NVIDIA Jetson systems have long been ranked among the world’s best-performing autonomous machines.

Both extremely powerful and ultra-energy efficient, they’re your ideal choice for embedded robotics and edge computing. And although it’s hard to believe there was room for improvement, NVIDIA has risen to the challenge once again to deliver a new generation of modules that perform up to 8x better than their predecessors: NVIDIA Jetson Orin.

What’s new in NVIDIA Jetson Orin?

The NVIDIA Jetson Orin modules offer the perfect balance between power, performance and low consumption for developing tomorrow’s products using autonomous machines. They deliver up to 275 TOPS in power and perform up to 8 times better than Jetson Xavier. The NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin systems satisfy the kind of performance and energy efficiency levels needed for autonomous machines in edge computing.

With the Jetson AGX Orin development kit, deploying advanced robotics applications becomes even easier and faster, in fields such as smart city development, distribution, agriculture, logistics, industrial production and healthcare.

What is edge computing?

Edge computing allows a device that generates data to process it directly or using a local computer. So there’s no need to send data to a remote centre for analysis. Heavy data processing therefore becomes much simpler, for video or audio content for example.

Being able to process data in real time speeds up processes and all but eliminates latency, which is dangerous in robotics, in particular in autonomous and connected vehicles.

Key differences between Orin and Xavier

The Jetson AGX Orin modules deliver an AI performance that can reach 275 TOPS with up to 64 GB of memory, compared to 30 TOPS with up to 32 GB of memory for Jetson Xavier. Power consumption of the Jetson Orin modules has also been optimised like never before, offering a maximum consumption of 60 W compared to a maximum of 40 W with Jetson Xavier.

This makes it the world’s most powerful AI computer for autonomous machines, without compromising on low, ultra-optimised consumption.

It performs up to 8 times better than the Jetson Xavier range for simultaneously handling a larger number of pipelines. Interface support is also optimised with multiple sensors, better satisfying recent trends in the field of next-generation embedded robotics.

Networking, which in Jetson Xavier was possible only with conventional Ethernet, can now be achieved with Gigabit Ethernet in Jetson Orin. This makes data transmission much faster than before.