Jetson Nano 2GB First Look & Test, It’s Awesome!

In this video, we take a look at the all-new NVIDIA JETSON NANO 2GB, A $59 Ai Development Board / SBC that’s totally worth the price!
Powered by the Tegra X1 with a 128 Core Maxwell-based GPU this board is turning out to be amazing!
Now Nvidia did have to make some sacrifices here to get the price this low but even with just 2GB of ram this thing is performing really well with Ai development or even just using this as an everyday desktop PC replacement!
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[@ETAPRIME]

Are you gonna thinking of picking one of these new Jetson Nano 2GB up?

[@wikwayer]

The lack of support make me doubt

[@ccallaghan84]

ETA, this isn't related to the nano, but we discussed the Asus PN50 back in August on another one of your videos. Mine is arriving from the UK on Wednesday. Did you manage to snag one? If not, I can lend you the 4700U model if you're interested. Let me know and we can chat off youtube to coordinate.

[@mglsj]

I wish Nvidia would make a new tegra cpu with ampere or Turing. Maxwell is so old but still holds up with modern arm based gpus

[@Durelle_]

Waiting for the emulation review

[@ighor]

I did pick up one, 1GB version, 12 months ago. It is great hardware, but I have fight with a Wi-Fi drivers and waited a long time for a kernel updates. Six month later I give up and sold it. I'm still hoping they will start making better software support. But no luck so far, it is still supports only the old kernel 4.9.140. And if you ask Nvidia on their forum, about when new kernel support going to be released, they will tell you "Customer can try to do that by their own". forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/ubuntu-19-10-with-kernel-5-3-0-18-on-jetson-nano/107619/2 No way, I'm not going to pick up that one.

[@ighor]

Nvidia released Linux kernel 4.9.140 patches for its ARM linux devices 2 years ago, and there was no new kernel updates since then. You can't install a newer Linux kernel with support of Wi-Fi 6. And you need to know that Nvidia stops releasing updates for their old devices. And if you ask Nvidia on their forum, about when new kernel support going to be released, they will tell you "Customer can try to do that by their own". forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/ubuntu-19-10-with-kernel-5-3-0-18-on-jetson-nano/107619/2 Jetson Nano runs on the 5 years old hardware, since it is using the same GPU and CPU as used in the first revision of Nintendo Switch, but JN has 2 times less GPU core count. When buying this you should be ready that you may stuck on the kernel 4.9.140 forever with no kernel security patches. If you agree with Ubuntu to install all updates to v20 it will break all the GPU drivers. And when you want to update their SDK and drivers, there is no other way yet, but to flash a new image to a microSD card again and loose all settings.

[@JohnHydeisawesome]

Nvidia seems to have a love-hate relationship with the Linux community.

[@johnsherby9130]

Disgraceful on nvidias part, you can’t just abandoned products that are only a couple years old

[@rayhazar2430]

could not agree more

[@wikwayer]

Lame support :؟

[@tubeathrun]

Nvidia-docker only runs on Linux?

[@JetsonHacks]

Thank you for the shoutout! Much appreciated. I'll make sure to send folks over when you have the game emulator reviews. I am a little surprised by how capable this machine is with so little memory, switching over to the lxde desktop from Gnome saved a ton of memory. Thanks again!

[@dwaynefranck4110]

ETA. I've been watching your Chanel for awhile now. By far the simplicity and detail of explanation of your video's is nothing short of marvelous. Thanks for what you do. ...👊🏾🍻

[@TheNeku123]

0:52 ETA Prime has a beard confirmed

[@epicjosa]

Glorious.

[@casualobserver3526]

Has someone informed CNN of the breaking news?

[@mr.coolio4321]

So he's an android model with a beard? Interesting...

[@onion_____]

Look at those arms

[@retrobro1139]

He’s a mans man.

[@sabarishbalasubramaniam6375]

There is something heartwarming about your startup clip ☺️

[@Kaynos]

Imagine showing this to peoples in the 60's working on computers taking whole rooms and being as powerful as a dollar store calculator.

[@darnell8897]

ETA Prime: I heard you know how to make a man suffer Dominatrix: * mounts swap on microSD card *

[@Apophis-en9pi]

Most underrated comment here. I was thinking the same thing when he said the swap was preconfigured. Just about choked on my drink.

[@aspirante.a.vagabundo]

Excelent review! Thanks!

[@deechvogt1589]

Thanks ETA Prime for another awesome SBC revie video, and let's not forget to shout out Eben Upton for starting the SBC computing revolution with the Raspberry Pi.

[@simplyinc3691]

Wonder how does it emulate? Great video as always ETA!

[@cmac3530]

Can you swap the daughterboards? For example, putting the new Nano 2GB in the old board to get back the 4 USB 3 ports and the m.2 slot?

[@fernandomartin4141]

Can't wait to see the emulation test. But PLEASE add some arcade games! (and not only Naomi/Atomiswave). And if you test Dolphin, please try a few Wiiware games, since they are usually less demanding than full Wii games.

[@danekunderhill4812]

Nice one bro. I think I'm sold:)

[@Lukes-Tech]

Great video!

[@jameslewis2635]

I was hoping that this board would be covered on this channel. It would be really interesting to see what the performance differences would be between this board and the others in the Jetson range. Also, how does it compare in performance to the Nvidia Shield?

[@elyasszayer4408]

I am interested to see this device preformance with blender Since With Cuda support and its optimization, it should preform better than any low form factor arm computer

[@Corianas_]

Hey, would love to see one of these set up as a mini streaming machine, so takes in webcams/usb captures and encodes to send off to twitch/somewhere.

[@Onelovebby23]

Cant wait for the emulation video!!

[@cralc75]

At $60, these are pretty awesome. Thanks ETA!

[@AnTran147]

Would the 4GB Nano's daughterboard work on this one's carrier board?

[@ETAPRIME]

I'll test it out, I think it should.

[@legin3753]

@@ETAPRIME did it ? :)

[@martins3885]

This is actually amazing

[@Paultimate7]

Perhaps at some point you could do a $60 nano-pc showdown for us with benchmarks and features, etc in one video.

[@Gazooo29]

Where do you find out about these products? What message board are you using.

[@antonrickert9427]

Thats a pretty good Deal for the price. I wonder how good it performs With Emulation. Would be pretty cool for a Mini home console.

[@Quicksilver-7791]

Please Stop Taking Like This

[@garystinten9339]

can the shield firmware be installed onto this beast?

[@baardbi]

I would like to see Golden Eye N64 on this.

[@Nickbaldeagle02]

Why? My phone can play Goldeneye perfectly.

[@caleb7475]

It should perform the same as the old one

[@CarlosEstrague]

No problem detected on jetson nano you Will needed Disable Vsync option Retroarch option for better perfomance (prevent stuttering) in the case for Golde eye can up to 1080p resolution. Some games i.e Pokémon snap or conker Will be needed Little Overclock for better Resolution .

[@kharilester]

@@Nickbaldeagle02 Your phone could cost anywhere from $300-1000+, whereas this sbc only costs $60. Kudos on fully missing the point though.

[@Nickbaldeagle02]

@@kharilester who doesn't have a phone contract with a near £1000 phone? My Galaxy S10 probably would have cost that brand new. But I pay about £35 a month. So my point is, you've already got a portable N64. And a Dreamcast. And arcade.

[@johnaraya3761]

Yes new episode.

[@arturosan010]

i have seen a few of your videos. I enjoy your points of view, and appreciate all your insight. but i have always wondered why you dont have review of beagleboard units.

[@NewAgeDIY]

Question: What do you think it will sell in Canada Normally its not just a conversion from US$ to Can$ they add a bit more to the price. Thanks

[@hackthis02]

I'm seeing mixed information. Are you able to use this as an Emby Server? Using the cuda cores for transcoding would be great.

[@ogrooster69]

ETA PRIME is also what I shout at my Alexa every time I buy recommended by this channel and the delivery is slow from Amazon.

[@Anewtube4you]

Noob question re: Jetson boards - any idea if this hardware could be used to run as an NVR for a home security system? If so, what software would you recommend?

[@gareth7762]

This is nearly the same specs as the shield for 59 quid, unreal. I'd like to take that operating system and pop it on my shield, it looks slick

[@TheRealFrankWizza]

Impressive. I just ran this webgl test on my pc. It is kind of old, but it's not bad. 980ti and an I7 3770. I get 33 fps at 30k fish.

[@mattizzle81]

How does the GPU compare to that in a high end smartphone? OpenGL performance, etc.

[@vitoswat]

I'd like to see you swapping base of 2 GB model with 4 GB one and vice versa and check what works and what doesn't

[@johnrusso594]

This is next on my list of things to get..by the way is a SOM ..System on a Module...

[@HellcatM]

If I were to get one it would be for a mobile desktop replacement/media hub/game streaming (Gforce now, xCloud) mini-PC. I'd probably want the 4GB model or would a Raspberry Pi be better?

[@Champabay]

Thanks SlappyMcphee for the test videos 🙂

[@ov3rkill]

This is one of the most powerful devkit sbc. Gary explains showed doom 3 running on this thing.

[@ighor]

It is still a 5 years old hardware that they trying to sell you again and again every year.

[@inspiredtiny]

Can the removable module of this be used to the old Nano and vice versa?

[@phallo]

One thing that I was curious about is how good is the video encoding performance? They originally advertised this as being really good for that and if that is true... does this also make them good as a plex server?

[@conceptualTriad]

Impressive demo, running at 1000 FPS (Fish per Second)!

[@davocc2405]

Would this be workable for hardware accelerated video transcoding? I'm thinking of conversion from m2ts or ts source format (so, mpeg2) to either x264 or HEVC-x265. I am trying to find something that has decent quality, the stock CUDA versions in their GPUs wasn't great in testing (currently using very slow software based conversion in batches).

[@Rishard_Gabriel]

Has this 2GB board been tested as a PLEX Server? Can it transcode multiple streams? How many 1080 or 720 streams can it output at once?

[@johnknightiii1351]

Can you do some tests with the killer 2.5gbe 3100 usbc network card? I don't know if it is exactly in your wheelhouse but I love your videos

[@VladimirPike]

Quite good video support, because with chrome I can't watch 4K on my laptop, because there is no VAAPI support, but here!! Looks like there is. And this is actually interesting, it means all drivers is in the kernel or It is kind of special version of Ubuntu on Jetson Nano?

[@firworks]

It feels like this might be the best cheap SBC for KZbin playback. Based on how it did with the 4K and 1080p here. Shame they didn't manage to squeeze in Wi-Fi for the price.

[@petermead7510]

ETA prime I thank you so much for all of your videos they have been extremely helpful and informative. Can I ask you a question? I am looking into getting another SBC after having two raspberry pi 3s and one raspberry pi 4. What would you say is my best bet for around $200? I plan on using it for various things from emulation to Linux to Android OS. Thank you for your time.

[@PATTHECATMCD]

One of my own blind spots for Linux is getting to know gcc optimizations for different hardware. Typing Make is the start of a rabbit hole of options before you hit Enter key.

[@ccallaghan84]

I've got the 4gb and it runs out of memory really quickly. I can't imagine the 2gb version is usable with more than very basic tasks.

[@ThePeacePlant]

Smh, cant trust ETA. He says good things so he can get free products

[@ccallaghan84]

@@ThePeacePlant yea I can see that. Dude recmended hypermirror, and that was a complete turd. But hey, we all out there trying to get a share. KZbinrs need free stuff and to play the game, even larger ones like linus do.

[@contytub]

Depends a lot on what your needs are ... for many people 2gb is more than enough . I have the 4gb rpi4 and usually stays way under 1.5gb ram usage

[@Doobie3010]

Different devices suit different people/users.Your use won’t be exactly the same as mine,for example.’Horses for courses’.

[@ccallaghan84]

@@contytub i was trying to use it as a very light thin client. Literally a couple browser windows and a remmina session. It ate through the 4gb in no time.

[@dougtle]

Can it act as a PLEX server and decode 4k video? The stats seems to indicate so, but how's the PLEX compatibility?

[@roll4critgaming841]

Would it be possible to install Android TV on one of these things? Seems like this would be a great way to make a "Discount Shield TV" even if the RAM might seem low.

[@juanramonredoferrer5817]

Will wait for the emuladores video.... as its finally as affordable as a Rpi4

[@sonofabippi]

That is some unreal performance at 60 bucks.

[@Pandonaut]

I wonder if theres a way to make a handheld with the module like the Retro-CM3

[@Lp-ze1tg]

I have checked the availability of this board and they already sold out for pre-order. They also claimed that it is capable to use for A.I lesson but I would assume that you will have to dedicate this board for A.I study and not to run anything else at the same time.

[@H3lloSE]

Which one would you choose? This one? The 99$ version, or the Radxa Rock Pi X Intel SBC, and why :)

[@alainpatino4068]

Retropie on this? Please give us a full video about emulation, 007, Good or War, Tekken 6, and the usual you do in your channel... Dying to see how you would do something for usa who likes emulation station and all that kind of stuff, would live yo make a little tinny retro console with one of this. Thanks in advance, you have amazing videos...

[@sudanman85]

Nice video! Does the private internet access linux app run on this? Thanks!

[@JohnnyKnuckles316]

can u do a video of how to set this up with the emulators and front end? i was thinking launch box but anything works.

[@sdmods619]

Same processor as switch but half the RAM? Will emulation be ok with 2GB?

[@Haiwork]

Is it possiable to Try box86 emulation on this board!? Love your vid!

[@mug1835]

This would be awesome just I would want it with a clean os like recal box or android tv

[@luiserasmo]

Is this board comparable to nvidia shield? or is the same performance in emulation?

[@joseloco8186]

Hi! have those jetson boards a nice case like raspberry?

[@JeanBrito666]

ETA, test Jellyfin hardware encoding on the nvidia gpu on this little beast please!

[@asghan]

Can you try Folding@Home on this one? Looks a decent little folding machine with low power consumption :)

[@MahonePaul]

I wonder if/how well could this board run "light games" like Oldschool Runescape @1080p?

[@DAVIDGREGORYKERR]

Why can't someone do a SBC micro computer that can compete with this based on a soldered in AMD A10-7800k and 64GB of DDR3 RAM and Gigabit Ethernet.

[@vagabundodetected5209]

Nice video, can it run Blender? I'm curious now, since Blender use CUDA to render...

[@sameladlani620]

When are you doing emulation on this ?

[@IRWPD]

Looking forward to an emulation video.

[@ProDigit80]

To see the GPU utilization,open a terminal and enter the line below: watch -n 0.5 nvidia-smi

[@mrburns366]

we need an Gameboy kit that can hold this daughterboard! 😍

[@forbiddenera]

You should probably mention nvidia doesn't expect people to really use the development board; they expect you to develop your own hardware to implement it. The fact you can use it as an sbc is just a cool extra I guess, maybe targeting the maker/sbc market a bit more with a 59$ part but it's possible that the dev board may not always be available I think. There are companies who make other carrier boards for them with different features

[@rubencg195]

I wish there could be Retropie 64 bit support on it. Could you try dolphin? Thanks! BTW, I love your channel.

[@el_tate]

could this be a cheap alternative to Shield for game emulation?

[@karanjoshi2662]

it should technically be good enough for emulation maybe a little better than raspberry pi but idk how optimized they are.

[@kharilester]

I believe the main issue with emulation on the original Jetson Nano, was the lack of community support. It was more powerful and had a far better gpu that the Raspberry Pi, but the Pi has a huge developer community and a lot of them are dedicated to game emulation. Also, the Shield is running Android TV and there's no native Android builds for the Nano.

[@rachmaniarsetyaputri2400]

1 minute ago~ as always still making a good review sbc..

[@arkoprovoshaw2643]

i literally got a nvidia ad in this video

[@TheRealFrankWizza]

What are you building with it AI wise?

[@RonaldOlszewski]

Look at the video titles - every product is the best, awesome, or amazing.

[@josephtremblant2173]

Some impressive WebGL aquarium performance on browser.

[@flytie3861]

Does it run well with blender or autocad?

[@3CPO4GPU]

Can it run FreeNas software? I can imagine run it as Nas server. 🤔

[@takuminightcore1886]

This would be interesting if somebody got in an upgraded version of the Jets and input Nintendo switch operating system on it

[@jeroldstockdale]

Has anyone tried using the Adroid build for the Shield Tablet on this thing? The specs are pretty darn similar.

[@Firefoxsimp]

could you run ubuntu and run zoom on it? just curious

[@degredadodegradado9110]

but, can you play 0ad in it? I stoped my try in rasp pi 4 8gb with ubuntu mate, get tired of 3 FPS~~

[@TheMode911]

was hardware acceleration enabled in chromium? Heard that this wasnt the case

[@1ccortez]

I thought there was no hardware acceleration on Linux yet www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/hardware-acceleration-chrome-linux

[@tjaytje]

@@1ccortez This is an article from 2018, so this is already implemented.

[@1ccortez]

@@tjaytje The article was updated 25 March 2020, and I haven't found any information yet that general Linux supports hardware acceleration

[@tjaytje]

​@@1ccortez personaly i haven't had issues with apps that have the option on by default, so as far as i know it seems to be working. But i might be wrong on this one

[@sixdroid]

@@1ccortez yes but you have to enable

[@ayanvaidya2727]

they could have made that brown box black and it would look more better

[@austinlindquist2943]

At the moment they're not selling the modules for production, no pinout or support if you want to make your own carrier board

[@rosslomath]

This video was like expecting steak for dinner and then ending up with a sandwich. We are wanting more and Nvidia gives us less lol

[@jhonshephard921]

This is priced as a sandwich. If you want more, they have more options. Jetson Xavier NX (steak) or even more with the AGX (waygu steak).

[@derekdacus4437]

Do you ever do anything with Parsec?

[@rastamouse7861]

I'd like to see if you could run 3dSen on it.

[@gaming-zombie1392]

When it comes to Nvidia Matson bands I think of Knight Rider having a Car Drive itself and tell it to come to you... Like a Tesla but better if it could be...

[@DigitalIP]

i wouldnt mind one but i have a feeling it wont be easy to get one for a while

[@MartijnWismeijer]

ETA Prime has a sexy voice and think he should do audiobooks.

[@joemotta2451]

Would to see if coinopsx works on it,and hook it up to a atgames arcade, thanks

[@arabiantxn]

Does anyone noticed that some Nano 2GB boards are missing the power adapter pin port. I have 2 usb C connectors