NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX Review - It's A Beast!

In this video, we take look at the all-new NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX developer kit!
This little board is the big brother of the Jetson Nano and rightfully so!
With a 6-core NVIDIA Carmel ARM®v8.2 64-bit CPU backed by a 384-core NVIDIA Volta™ GPU with 48 Tensor Cores on paper this looks like a very capable machine.
In this video we unbox go over the specs test out some developer demos then move on to see how this thing handles everyday use and finally wrap it up with some Gamecube emulation using the Dolphin emulator!
Of course, this is a Raspberry Pi killer but its hard to compare the two because of the huge price difference.
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NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX Specs
CPU: 6-Core NVIDIA Carmel ARM v8.2 64-bit CPU 6 MB L2 + 4 MB L3
1.4Ghz in 4/6-core mode, or 1.9Ghz in Dual-Core Mode
GPU: NVIDIA Volta with 384 CUDA Cores and 48 Tensor cores
Ram: 8GB 128-bit LPDDR4x 51.2GB/s
Storage: MicroSD + M.2 Key M NVMe SSD
Video Encode 2x 4Kp30 | 6x 1080p 60 | 14x 1080p30 (H.265/H.264)
Video Decode 2x 4Kp60 | 4x 4Kp30 | 12x 1080p60 | 32x 1080p30 (H.265)
Camera Connection: 2x MIPI CSI-2 D-PHY lanes
Connectivity: Gigabit Ethernet, M.2 Key E (WiFi/BT included)
Display: HDMI and DP
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[@gustavosoto4607]

ETA Prime has probably 5mill views out of the 6mil on Big Buck Bunny lol.

[@ETAPRIME]

😂

[@andrewcool4587]

Nah

[@wheelieblind]

@@ETAPRIME I'd like to see if one of these things can run Second Life and I want to know just how badly it lags lol.

[@jameslewis2635]

Depending on latency, this could theoretically be a pretty good device for tracking motion in VR gaming.

[@idcrafter-cgi]

Its even pre trained by Nvidia

[@elliotdavies3557]

@@idcrafter-cgi for me nvidia are top dog. Everything they make is always a quality product and anything that has nvidia in will always be a good product. That is just my opinion though. 👍

[@nathanddrews]

I think this is based on the same tech behind their Drive platform for vehicle autopilot, so with the right software the latency should be no problem.

[@chizukichan]

Nah. I'm using an 8K logic gate FPGA, ESP32-S2, IR camera, and MPU9650 for that. The FPGA is just for video transcoding and sensor fusion motion vectors. Using an FPGA drives the cost of inside-out tracking way down.

[@MakisOfEquinox]

Generally hooking an Xbox kinnect up to a PC is a lot more cost effective and accurate than something like this could be , at least as far as I've seen.

[@mikeall7012]

~7:40 - in 5 years people wont be able to find a mall. There are kids alive today who have never been in one.

[@djvincon]

The way ETA PRIME gently moved his finger on the box after 0.05 you know he loves this device

[@Freeknickers24]

00:05

[@lc7ineo]

the fact that you can do all of this on such a small computer is both amazing a and scary as f... :S

[@Lazar-w9u]

China intensifies

[@Zimbob2424]

surveillance state....... Definitely scary

[@CalaTec]

I want this without the AI stuff and at a price of 150/200

[@yot3605]

Cala Content same

[@therusky]

@@yot3605 what do u mean without the AI stuff? It's software lol

[@darshan5726]

@@therusky its hardware. tensor cores are for AI workload

[@therusky]

Dead pool thanks for the correction i thought it was all software

[@josephtremblant2173]

Me too, unfortunately until Nvidia faces a real competitor for AI in the SBC Arm64 space(software+hardware integration), it won't happen any time soon. Nvidia is well known for delivering some exclusive technologies at a hefty price tag.

[@megan_alnico]

This looks like what I imagine a mid-generation Switch refresh would look like. I mean put that in a box, slap Nintendo on it and it’s a consoleized upgraded switch. Those tensor cores could be used for DLSS which would be a great fit for the switches current library. Many devs complain about the switches lack of memory the most and the 8 gig here would really help.

[@trixniisama]

The price will be the problem. Nintendo won't make a console that's at least $400. Even more if it's a hybrid.

[@mattizzle81]

I got so excited about the Jetson Nano that I bought 2 of them. It wasn't really as powerful as I expected, and power supply issues are a pain. This looks like it fixes everything that I didn't like with the Nano, but at a higher price. I got burned with the Nano though so while I'm tempted to buy this, I'm holding off.

[@MelvinKhosa]

They need to release a new Shield Pro with this exact hardware in it.

[@CreativeTubeChannel]

Man I love your videos so simple and using little time to explain a ton in just few minutes. Thanks 😊

[@adamkamieniarz9223]

13:08 the reason is KZbin delivers videos in 1440p and above in VP9 or AV1 only, which is purely caused by too big bandwidth impact on their side and infuriating for me as only relatively new PC hardware has hardware decoding support for VP9 (newer Intel and Nvidia GPUs only) and AV1 hardware decoding is nonexistent. So here I am with my Atom/Jaguar mini ITX HTPCs, that have no problem with decoding h264 content to my 4k TV, but can't work with KZbin...

[@kwinzman]

I seriously hope the next Raspberry (5 or whatever it's gonna be called) will have VP9+AV1 hardware decoding.

[@MrOoh50]

Yo dude, try h264ify extension on chrome/firefox, if u don't know it already can be helpful, it should force the h.264 decode istead VP9, also u can access 30 fps in 60 fps content, all should reduce the cpu usage.

[@cachem11]

It's software issue. Nvidia Shield handles VP9 4k 60fps just fine.

[@z6fireace]

You clearly don't understand why VP9 and AV1 existed, go find your self some video comparisons, not everyone like to enjoy video fill of mosaic like you do my friend

[@adamkamieniarz9223]

@@MrOoh50 h264ify works for 1080p and below, but not for 1440p and above, because YT only delivers those resolutions in VP9 or AV1.

[@derpsquad3306]

The Jetson with its pose estimation would make for an epic full body tracking system in VR, especially since it has twin Camera Serial Interface (CSI) ports Either through those, or USB cameras.

[@one-shotrailgun8713]

Man I wished there was some sort of "in-between" model in the Jetson line. The Xavier is too expensive and the Nano is a bit underpowered for my liking. I want the specs to have atleast The same as the N-Switch. They can keep the CPU in quad core config since the little cores cannot be used by the system but they should've have doubled the the cores in the GPU.

[@one-shotrailgun8713]

@@AnonymousGentooman yeah I know

[@angelg3986]

There is/was TX2 between. And this NX is also considered middle line, there's AGX Xavier with 32 GB 256-Bit LPDDR4x much faster

[@FamousWolfe]

"Having a hard time determining what I'd use this for in real-world applications" Me: *Laughs in government-spying-on-citizens*

[@TheRogueBro]

The GPU is basically on par with a GTX 650 (same cuda core count, tho i doubt MHz is the same) but with the added benefits of Tensor cores. Seem like a neat little board!

[@RDilux]

That's not true...since it is based on volta architecture and the gtx 650 on Kepler. With that being said, the GPU in this device is probs 5 times faster then the GTX 650 because of improvements in the architecture alone

[@geovani60624]

You can't compare graphics cards on cudacores alone

[@mrcrisplinuxuser4180]

That used Kepler. You can't compare them.

[@TheBeach14]

It's more like a rtx 3030

[@indask8]

@@TheBeach14 No RT core, so GT 3030 ^ ^

[@SuperCartoonist]

Why the bad ad placement? Can't you put the ad where you are not speaking? This is why I have adblock on my PC, because bad ad placement in the video. I don't like hearing you get cut off by an ad. Think twice where you place an ad on your video. Don't show any signs of laziness!

[@anyfinity]

But can it run gta v (atleast at 720p low settings and shadows disabled via it's config file)?

[@tonystolz4982]

Yeah, GTA has been out for 7 years...so yeah it will.

[@acwbit2368]

Its ARM not X86

[@Arek_R.]

If my workplace gets the grant we would be making entrance people counter for any kind of stores/supermarkets that need to limit amount of people inside during the pandemic, current or future ones. Currently RPi 4 is planned to be used. But jetson xavier could be used if rpi 4 wouldnt be enough.

[@davidowle3772]

This could help in malls too, where multiple entrances would make knowing how many people were inside next to impossible...

[@elliotdavies3557]

Yeeesssss at last awesome eta prime awesome 👊 i did think though that it would of been a bit more than 1.4ghz and 1.9ghz. As the n2 (odroid) is 1.9ghz to. But obviously the xavier would out beat it anyway but just thought it would be a bit bigger than 1.9ghz 🤔

[@ETAPRIME]

I was hopeful

[@elliotdavies3557]

@@ETAPRIME me to but even so its still a beast of a sbc and much appreciated for the video. 😁Oh and quick question if you have the time. Out of curiosity what will you be using this for to please?.and would you say for emulation this is not as powerful as the nvidia shield 2019 Pro?. Because of these specs I am undecided now to get one because I thought nvidia would of been putting a little bigger than 1.9ghz and and 1.4ghz to. Cheers and much appreciated. For me you are the best when it comes to sbc and reviews and tutorials always have and always will use your videos for everything i need help on. In other words you are the king, sorry for the long comment. 🤯I do know to it's not meant to be for emulation. 😔

[@alexisrivera200xable]

You can infer that the choppiness on KZbin is caused by the same reason you get a crash on dolphin if you don't use fullscreen. It's an issue with the video driver implementation which makes a lot of sense for newer single board computers. With that fixed you can probably expect really good desktop, web browsing and media performance. (After all it's a $399 computing product with rather decent specs.)

[@HitAndMissLab]

Can you please try running some office type of applications, like OpenOffice, LibraOffice and Eclipse IDE for programmers.

[@RobLoach]

They would run just fine on this beast.

[@elpasito]

And what about OBS for streaming?

[@ThomasGrillo]

It really amazes me to see so much development happening in this industry. Thanks for sharing this. :)

[@janeblogs324]

Yet I'm amazed at the lack of development in nursing homes and hospitals

[@malcolmholmes2596]

Murican priorities

[@devon12346]

@@janeblogs324 if you care so much why don't you develop them

[@erasmobellumat3973]

Look guys, the next Nintendo Switch in front of your eyes!

[@williamrutter3619]

They are using Samsung and Amd with an arm chipset, which should I hope outperform this board significantly.

[@DenGuleBalje]

@@williamrutter3619 Do you remember the codename for the Switch?

[@trollius2718]

@@DenGuleBalje nope , but AMD is making a very very GOOD PRODUCTS NOW !

[@ThePeacePlant]

Not going to happen. This board is $400. Plus Nintendo has to make a profit. It will be at a price that most people won't even want to buy

[@trixniisama]

@@ThePeacePlant Exactly what I'm repeating to people, but they'll respond that it's no problem because they sell their console at loss, that they will make a $500 console,... Of course all of this is ridiculous.

[@WJMazepas]

Are you going to test the emulation with what CPU configuration? Running at 2 cores with higher clock speed should be te most performant right?

[@ETAPRIME]

I did test it with dolphin and it seemed the same but I will definitely be switching profiles around when I test more emulators

[@ekinteko]

@@ETAPRIME What's your favourite, this or the Udoo Bolt V8? Thanks as always!

[@mingming9604]

if you are getting above 80% on all your cpu cores while playing video, then you don't have any gpu accelerated video playback. so something is wrong there. Maybe the codec or the playback app is not working correctly? That is like simulating back in the old day when you don't have gpu accelerated video playback and older computers struggle to even play 1080p smoothly.

[@jeffdughman9741]

nintendo should use this on the switch :)

[@oofingberg]

its Nintendo they never used anything very powerful

[@CrazyGamesMinecraft]

@@oofingberg Well the X1 was pretty powerful back then, although they could've used the X2. But considering that the switch pro is still a little down the road, it is possible for sure

[@Lazar-w9u]

Why hell would they need an ai/deep learning core in a fucking gaming console? You seem like the kinda guy that has never touched a datasheet in their entire life but pretends they are smarter than everyone

[@CrazyGamesMinecraft]

@@Lazar-w9u Well the Tegras where also used for AI purposes if I recall correctly. I may be wrong though.

[@mythenkanacke2105]

@@Lazar-w9u Considering that the non ai part is still a decent step up from the X1, Ai wouldn't even have to be considered. But they could use the ai, for stuff like ai based image scaling like dlss.

[@mistamaog]

These specs are what the Nintendo Switch should've came with.

[@tonystolz4982]

Agree, but it would be over $500. The current Switch has bee out for 3 years and still is $299...with no games..

[@SweBeach2023]

Have you seen the heat sink? At 15 watt for the CPU/GPU and allowing 5 watt for the display, wifi, audio etc the Switch would last for 45 minutes with its 4310 mAh battery.

[@mistamaog]

@@SweBeach2023 If they remove the AI aspects of it, anything you don't need on the board for gaming, and down clock the cores than it'll run at 5-7 watts.

[@aragornk]

Yeah, if the could have fit a GTX 2080 Super and a i9 9900 into the Switch that would have been great.

[@TonyJenn]

I guess you never heard of RnD

[@nicholasboccio]

Security camera systems that can add the object detection for alerts. Such as packages, deliveries, neighbors, etc.

[@ace8656]

I was just thinking that too, great minds think alike

[@defencebangladesh4068]

yes i was thinking the same

[@mrwang420]

Using 10 of these in a cluster would be insane.

[@TheDeathskull37]

Try running a gpu that supports ARM using the m.2 interface! I think Nvidia has arm drivers up for their larger gpus.

[@williamrutter3619]

The shield should have this hardware, the shield it's old tech now.

[@carlsjr.74]

I never understand nvidia make a Premium or SUPER or what ever Shield....

[@williamrutter3619]

@@carlsjr.74 the shield is five years old, I don't think a premium is needed, (just give us the up to date hardware) shows what happens when there is no competition.

[@billfreeman5201]

But the Shield still outshines and outpaces anything that others have still not come up with in 5 years,so why should they when there is little in the way of real competition at the price point? Not many are really thinking about the Jetson, Xavier and the like for the same uses as a Shield or most other boxes and SBC's because Nvidia doesn't buy into open source and will therefore largely be ignored save for specialised uses that common boxes cannot provide. Very much niche products really and at $399 Intel and AMD come right into purchasing equations.

[@williamrutter3619]

@@billfreeman5201 I do agree, but I do feel a new shield is really needed, I found my shield to really tank if I was using more than one app, it could drop frames, and button config was awful, people should expect more in 2020, i now have a mini Ryzen pc behind my TV, it works much better than a shield.

[@ubacow7109]

I love my shield I have the first gen one, and while yes the hardware is old the console actually still performs super smoothly

[@jaylittlegm]

I would absolutely love it if you could compile OBS on this box and attempt to run it. If this thing could encode in OBS with NVENC (1080p60), that would be a killer app for me as this would be the only SBC capable of doing such a thing as far as I know.

[@rodrigomadera]

Great review! About the video decoding experience, both the browser and the standalone player were using the CPU, which is not using the board’s potential. In order to do so, you need to configure a codec offloading environment such as VAAPI or VDPAU. You can run two simultaneous 4k 60fps streams that way, while using 0% CPU.

[@jamesfmackenzie]

Great video! Looking forward to the emulation deep dive. Seems like a super powerful GPU paired with middle-of-the-road CPU. Interested to see how this goes!

[@rodrigovaldivia8250]

Now, as I´m seeng this... it really creeps me out lol. Now I´m going to wear black glasses whenever going out to the mall.

[@handlemonium]

Isn't this the same SoC in the Magic Leap One? Or is the GPU upgraded to Volta or Turing?

[@hugo-garcia]

This is basicly the next Nintendo Switch Hardware

[@EileenTheCr0w]

I just realized where that sound in your intro comes from. Altered Beasts was one of my favorite games on the sega!

[@producerevan88]

I always want to turn up the sound for the intro, such a fun game.

[@eduuklee9453]

personal computers of the future are going to be this small :3 The Nintendo Switch, Laptops and certain smartphones are allready pretty powerful computers so we can expect more small hardware to come :3

[@geovani60624]

I'm imagining it's probably being developed with one switch pro in mind, I wonder how good games developed for this thing would run

[@ThePeacePlant]

Not going to happen. This thing is $400. You think most people will want to spend $700 on a Switch Pro .

[@111benajmin111]

Wow great. Can you Test Moonlight streaming latency for me? ☺️

[@ETAPRIME]

I’ll add it in the next video

Dude, why would you spend 300+ to run moonlight?!?!? Just get a nvidia sheild or use any android based device that came out in the past 4 years

[@HOWLWOLF]

@ you could build a decent PC/emulation machine for 300-400 bucks too lol so idk what the other guy is smoking

[@HenrikoMagnifico]

Nintendo Switch 2 in disguise?

[@casualcorner199secchio]

Is it finally the best SBC? Aaaand can we attach an external GPU?

[@jagardina]

Cool stuff. Friend of mine picked this up to do gaming emulation. Sounds like there some work to do. I suspect he's one of the developers. Or at least active in the dev community. He used to work on what eventually became Plex.

[@tae898]

How good are "Nvidia Carmel - Microarchitectures" Chips? I wonder how they perform compared to Snapdragon chips or Apple chips.

[@mattizzle81]

Somebody needs to do a benchmark comparison.

[@acwbit2368]

Stronger

[@malathomas6141]

acw weaker than A12Z but maybe match sd 855 that’s my guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@chucksanders7131]

Uhhh, its amazing at motion detection. It has 25 tflops of power. I have one. I am doing real time object detection on 4 cameras over wifi. I also have mine booting off of a M.2 SSD. There is a tutorial on KZbin to do it. I made a low power real time object detection system that looks at a battery powered infrared pi camera network for when I go camping, or when society falls apart and I need a portable security system. :P

[@Nickbaldeagle02]

You could use this as a base to build a pretty hefty handheld games console. You'd need quite a few 18650 batteries though.

[@PinataOblongata]

"Periph-reals"? Practise saying "per - riffer - alls" to get that one right. Also, "Xavier" is pronounced "Zavier", not "ex-zavier" ;)

[@TigerGreene]

Lol! You stole the words out of my mouth. Try listening at half speed at 1:08. So funny.

[@negachin2334]

Different places pronounce things differently, including names. There is no "right" way to pronounce anything, its all based on differences in how we are raised/ taught to speak. Tomato, Tomato. I've always pronounced Xavier as Exavier and have never been corrected.. In fact I've never heard anybody not pronounce it as Exavier here in California.

[@nobushi]

Unfortunately nVidia doesn't have good opensource drivers like AMD or Intel have, so you are kind of stuck with their OS bundle.

[@JordonAM]

It's called the NX. The Nintendo Switch was codenamed the NX and has a NVIDIA Tegra Chip in it. A farfetched bridge but that's the first thing that came to mind

[@bradleysanders8298]

This is a terrible desktop value. My machine that can now be bought for about $400 on the reconditioned market (ie Amazon) with 8 intel cores, 32GB RAM and a 1050Ti does the fish demo just fine with 30,000 fish. The real value in this thing is the software comes already configured to start learning, and that's worth a lot cuz those packages can be a bear.

[@bASICMiner]

hahaha... gotta know... but can it mine ETH?? :)

[@daniellisy7161]

:D Nintendo pls get inspired and work on the Switch Pro :D that would be a beast of a Switch

[@Sithhy]

It would also cost much much more

[@daniellisy7161]

@@Sithhy pretty sure if you order milions of them they get quite cheap :D

[@Ssengel69]

I was about to type the same thing ! They need to!

[@williamrutter3619]

Nintendo are working with Samsung and Amd, on an arm chipset, this too underpowered.

[@hierroxidao]

Could it be overclocked? With better cooling, 6 cores at 2GHz... 🤤🤤

[@MGThePro]

You can't access 4k with h264ify because youtube only stores h264 videos at 1080p or below, since it'd waste too much space on higher resolutions. Also, hardware acceleration on xorg in firefox is being worked on. You could use wayland to get hardware acceleration, but not with nvidia.

[@harrytsang1501]

I can’t justify something above $100 for media, I’ll just use my desktop or laptop then.

[@pjbroke335]

Yet that laptop and desktop prolly cost you much more than $100

[@mattizzle81]

This thing is almost as powerful as a laptop that cost $2,000 in 2017. It is a bit less powerful than a GTX1060 I think, but with more ram available to the GPU.

[@malathomas6141]

mattizzle Soda lol no this is weaker than Ryzen 3 4300u and weakest Ryzen 4000 apu and this cant beat gtx 1060 with ddr4

[@wolfpackgaming2492]

“NX” Nintendo NX 🤔 2021 release .

[@josecarlosxyz]

Nintendo does not invest on heavy powered hardware

[@williamrutter3619]

@@josecarlosxyz this is hardly powerful hardware.

[@SteelSkin667]

The chip is way too too big (physically) and the TDP slightly too high to be a good fit unfortunately.

[@ricmagus]

@@SteelSkin667 for a handheld hibrid, yes. But How about a full desktop switch (if they came with switch lite, why not the other way around). Im not a switch fan btw

[@SteelSkin667]

@@ricmagus If Nintendo decide to use a chip that is that different from what they're using in the Switch, they are basically starting a new line of consoles. Whatever chip they use for their next console(s) has to fit a handheld device. The handheld/hybrid concept has been too successful for them.

[@sahilpawaskar5512]

Is it possible some how that macbook Air M1 can be use an monitor for Jetson board ? Please reply I am new to this field.

[@helmi5045]

Yes it is. You‘re gonna need a capture card tho. Something like the Genki Shadowcast would be perfect because it has full macOS compatibility and uses Thunderbolt 3

[@sahilpawaskar5512]

@@helmi5045 Thank you so much Helmi for replying and helping for solution, I will definitely work on it. 👍👍👍

[@grima0482]

Could you please try to run some x86 and x86_64 Linux (or Windows games with Wine) using the box86 and box64 emulators on the Xavier NX?

[@zushikatetomotoshift1575]

For the WEBGL Fish test I get to 25000 before I drop fps on my main pc. AMD Ryzen 3800x, 32gb ram, Asus RTX 2080 super.

[@fesyuki-kun2332]

Take the first look at the Nintendo Switch pro

[@FoxyAnimater]

please Test Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2 they are my favorite games for the Wii and the only Wii games I test besides Mario Kart Wii.

[@lrc3847]

Hope that gets an Android port in order to see how strong is againt the mobile chips. And wondering why this is not on a nVIDIA Shield Pro or something like that.

[@synckid]

Because the shield and Jetson are for 2 different use cases

[@josephtremblant2173]

60FPS for webGL test using aquarium with 500 fish is not that impressive. A Raspberry pi 4 2Gb OC'd at 2.147 Ghz and 850Mhz for GPU, gets 26FPS at same resolution under chromium w/500 fish. Xavier NX for webGL apps/games is only 2.2X faster than Rpi 4 2Gb and yet it costs 11.4X more. I expect more of this card.

[@TeamUnpro]

I'm curious to see how Box86 performs with this; also I'd love the chance to play with one of these for programming

[@adamkamieniarz9223]

If you find anything on the topic, please let me know also!

[@TeamUnpro]

Adam Kamieniarz if someone buys me this thing I’ll be happy to run tests xD

[@adamkamieniarz9223]

Actually I know somebody, that has it and also has a KZbin channel. ;) If we could only draw his attention towards this idea for a cool video.

[@TeamUnpro]

Adam Kamieniarz yoooo tell him some random dude says pls

[@povilasstaniulis9484]

Big brother to Jetson Nano is the Jetson TX1 which is based on Tegra X1. Xavier NX is based on Tegra Xavier SoC which is newer and much more powerful. Would gladly buy this board if it was cheaper and not so AI-oriented. @12:52 Chrome still can't do hardware video decoding under Linux. Even if it could, this board can't decode VP9 which Google loves to use for 4K videos. Even Tegra Xavier is not powerful enough to decode 4K in software alone. Kodi is also doing software decoding because it does not support NVDEC which Nvidia uses in Xavier SoC. VLC Player should have NVDEC support for hardware decoding, not sure if it's enabled in the ARM build though.

[@piotrprs572]

yea.. it's so 'powerfull' that my old Radeon RX 570 is almost 4x times faster. :-DDD And this price... it cheaper to buy 3 graphic cars similar to RX 570, mainboard, cpu and ram, than 2 Jeston Xavier NX. With 3 graphics u get almost 6x times faster gpu computing power. Yea.. I can understand, that is rly fast if we wanna get nano computing power. But to be honest.. what for this kind of computer is now? It's v. expensive and isn't so fast after all. It's a matter of time when AMD will release similar solution for nano computing. Then we can compare and choose better platform for future usage.

[@abdullahtatas3947]

NEED HELP!!! I did all steps in the tutorial on the xavier nx and after reboot it seemed to work. The SSD was detected and the SD seemed to be just a normal drive that was plugged in. However, I accidentally (I was to stupid to read that the SD need to be plugged in all the time) removed the SD and reboot. Only black screen, nothing happend, no boot, nothing. I inserted the SD card again, power on, nothing happend, only black screen. I even removed the SSD, flashed a new SD card and inserted it. Nothing is happening, only black screen. It seems that the Xavier NX is dead. Any suggestions how to fix it??? Appreciate your help.

[@drabjan]

awesome board, too bad I don't know how to use the full potential of it. Thanks for review

[@deodatocosta8172]

The specs claim it can decode two 4k60 videos at once but it isn't capable of fully decoding even one probably because its doing in software, and it definitely is due to the high CPU usage.If you could make it decode in hardware (which is next to impossible in Linux ) then it should be able to play smoothly and use less than 10% cpu on each core.My old Pentium 4 with HT couldn't even draw a full frame of 1080i video with 100% cpu and onboard graphics but when i added a graphics card it did full 1080i60 with less than 5% cpu in Windows Vista but not in Linux.

[@ArtemisKitty]

It would make a nice smart-home brain that could also double as an Nvidia Shield with even more power, should the software development allow this. Have one system running your security cameras and making smart decisions on whether to record (Ignore branches waving in the breeze, or a wandering cat, but human/potential burglar? Send an immediate alert and record.) as well as using BERT to control your home lights and A/C, but at the same time be able to USE said device that you just spent all that money on for entertainment as well, simply by hooking it up to a TV. Just a thought, but at that point, being able to basically pay $100 more than a Shield Pro and get that much more power AND those capabilities being a potential? It is expensive, but compared to that? I'd say it's pretty on-point, unfortunately. (I personally wish it were about the same price, rather than more than the Shield, since it's a bare-bones dev kit and all.) Thanks for the awesome video! I can't wait to see where dev goes on this bad boy while I save up to buy one, haha.

[@jwill7998]

Would the Lattepanda Alpha be better for emulation? I'm looking for an SBC to make an arcade cabinet.

[@josephtremblant2173]

Lattepanda alpha 864 would be better for gaming emulation.

[@jwill7998]

@@josephtremblant2173 Very specific question: do you know if it can play Killer Instinct, Gauntlet Legends, or NFL Blitz?

[@123456Domingo]

To be honest for this price I expect CPU to run 4 cores at atleast 2.5 ghz, 2.8 ghz prefered, and this only runs at 1.4 ghz... Gosh even nVidia shield K1 cores could have been overclocked to 2.5... We really need snapdragon developer boxes....

[@TigerGreene]

1:08 "in case we need some extra periff-ree-uhls"

[@MrFlashpan]

Can you please show us PPSSPP running Killzone Liberation, God of war, test drive Unlimited, Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror, Lets see if this little puppy can handle those. Thank's for the review and specs.

[@elmariachi5133]

Now what practical application is this thing good for? With this form factor? For UHD VR ATMs? Wouldn't anyone in a professional surveillance or server situation prefer full grown ATX or 19" hardware?

Sweet functions, but why oh why does all these SBC rely on sd card boot set up by raspberry in 2012? Its 2020 dammit! All mobile phones can boot from internal memory, but not these things...

[@jeffg4686]

Could this be used as an AI / graphics card for a VR headset? Would be cool to have AI processed at the very very edge (the person), so that, for instance, person walking around theme park ride (or walking trail) can have this attached to belt, and sata connected to headset. And camera attached of course. Get the AI without network needed.

[@PrintAimGame]

What happens when you use the M.2 slot to hook up another graphics card similar to the Lattepanda Alpha?

[@todddelozier8172]

ARM CPU at $400... I wish there was more support for these SBCs. They are all over but most have poor software support. Nvidia probably has decent support.

[@muhammadamohsin]

You should do ps2 emulation

[@lolandypanda]

Sorry man, but this is NOT "world smallest AI supercomputer". BeagleBone AI is wwwwwway smaller. True, it does not have nVidia logo on it :D

[@ratboyOwO]

this is gonna be the switch pro SOC

[@lrc3847]

And a the new nVIDIA Shield Soc

[@amy-295]

I wish it true So we can play games with 30fps stable or 60fps stable

[@regeleplayz798]

im 100% sure there will be workarounds to make all 6 cores run at a much higher clock speed would love to see a video of installing windows on this thing

[@malathomas6141]

U can’t install windows on arm cores 🤦🏿‍♂️

[@caviar_dreamz]

Nvidias mediocre Linux support really hinders this machine. Theres no reason it should drop frames on KZbin. I bet if you used the MPV extension for KZbin Videos you’d get less dropped frames.

[@Retrohertz]

On the Aquarium demo, my main computer didn't struggle until 25,000 fish. I only have a Ryzen 3600 with an RX480. I wonder why your main system struggled. I noted in my Task Manager that the CPU and GPU didn't go above 40% regardless of the number of fish ... interesting.

[@malathomas6141]

Because this is weaker ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@christopherbroadlayne3290]

Looks awesome but this isnt an sbc . I didnt know part of the computer is underneath the heat sink which slots into the minboard. I feel its a bit deceptive . The sbc market is highly competitive and it would be unfair to hide this fact and still be held to the sbc standard as well as competing with other sbc's. Does anyone else feel me on this i dont think im judging to harsh or being picky i mean it wouldn't keep me from buying it. Im only stating that it should not be marketed as an sbc nor compete with them directly. Kinda similar to boxing weight classes. Let me know what ya think on thi one.

[@TheMartinSan]

Tried the fish demo on my desktop, 10 fps with one fish only, my mobile phone does 5000 with 35 fps...time to upgrade my desktop :D It does gaming all good tho...

[@sc0or]

Can I use all its computational power to encode PCM (24/192) to DSD (256) in a real time? I mean some idea whether it will be enough or not.

[@ghunterforever]

the webGL aquarium is underwhelming at least. i am running this test on my note 10 on battery, and i got better result. so no, i can certainly get better result (in this test) one a SOC, with lower wattage, and on a older chip running ARM.

[@angelg3986]

Nice ad, but how much of this 8GB is available as GPU memory ? AFAIK this is made by TSMC with 12nm FinFet process so there's some headroom to improve to 8nm if they want.

[@MaffeyZilog]

The updated version of this is rumoured to be the SoC powering the next-gen Nintendo Switch or Switch 2 (not OLED or the other thing they brought out recently.)

[@josephhayes6071]

I just see a fun and intuitive way to do character animations in indie games... I gotta get one

[@p_mouse8676]

The reason why it's priced this way, is mostly just because it's not being produced in such high numbers as well as the market it's made for (professional industry).

[@etaashmathamsetty7399]

my integrated graphics handled 5000 fish just fine. (its a laptop cpu) its still really impressive for the price the emulation is great my laptop can't handle dolpin at 3x res for some reason

[@krisreddish3066]

It could dso so much, but folks will make auto turrets with it., or play old games. That is your real demographic. Perhaps the odd person making a robotic mower.

[@NeoCosmosSK]

Don’t use vsync on slower computer or sbcs, that will improve performance

[@bryndal36]

Curious to know how ps2 tittles would run on it

[@williamrutter3619]

Badly

[@murilokleine]

Probably not too good... but has to do with the emulation software, not the hardware.

[@leonardpersin9694]

Murilo Kleine is there any emulators for ps2?

[@ThePeacePlant]

@@leonardpersin9694 Yes dude. You could have easily searched Google and it would tell you an emulator within 30 seconds

[@HobkinBoi]

@@leonardpersin9694 It's called PCSX2

[@lacai527]

Sure ya could build a PC, but if ya build some kind a system a module is often cheaper to replace than an invidual piece of modul, someone enyways has to work whit the piece of module. 3 hours is easy wasted even on simple task.

[@ansjaved3484]

Is Jetson Nano is enough for developing the prototype of autonomous car or I need to work with Jetson Nano TX2/Xavier? Please guide me.