Tegra is a system on a chip (SoC) series developed by Nvidia for mobile devices such as smartphones, personal digital assistants, and mobile Internet devices. The Tegra integrates an ARM architecture central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU), northbridge, southbridge, and memory controller onto one package. Early Tegra SoCs are designed as efficient multimedia processors. The Tegra-line evolved to emphasize performance for gaming and machine learning applications without sacrificing power efficiency, before taking a drastic shift in direction towards platforms that provide vehicular automation with the applied "Nvidia Drive" brand name on reference boards and its semiconductors; and with the "Nvidia Jetson" brand name for boards adequate for AI applications within e.g. robots or drones, and for various smart high level automation purposes.

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Nvidia Tegra T20 (Tegra 2) and T30 (Tegra 3) chips
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A Tegra X1 inside a Shield TV

History

The Tegra APX 2500 was announced on February 12, 2008. The Tegra 6xx product line was revealed on June 2, 2008,[1] and the APX 2600 was announced in February 2009. The APX chips were designed for smartphones, while the Tegra 600 and 650 chips were intended for smartbooks and mobile Internet devices (MID).[2]

The first product to use the Tegra was Microsoft's Zune HD media player in September 2009, followed by the Samsung M1.[3] Microsoft's Kin was the first cellular phone to use the Tegra;[4] however, the phone did not have an app store, so the Tegra's power did not provide much advantage. In September 2008, Nvidia and Opera Software announced that they would produce a version of the Opera 9.5 browser optimized for the Tegra on Windows Mobile and Windows CE.[5][6] At Mobile World Congress 2009, Nvidia introduced its port of Google's Android to the Tegra.

On January 7, 2010, Nvidia officially announced and demonstrated its next generation Tegra system-on-a-chip, the Nvidia Tegra 250, at Consumer Electronics Show 2010.[7] Nvidia primarily supports Android on Tegra 2, but booting other ARM-supporting operating systems is possible on devices where the bootloader is accessible. Tegra 2 support for the Ubuntu Linux distribution was also announced on the Nvidia developer forum.[8]

Nvidia announced the first quad-core SoC at the February 2011 Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. Though the chip was codenamed Kal-El, it is now branded as Tegra 3. Early benchmark results show impressive gains over Tegra 2,[9][10] and the chip was used in many of the tablets released in the second half of 2011.

In January 2012, Nvidia announced that Audi had selected the Tegra 3 processor for its In-Vehicle Infotainment systems and digital instruments display.[11] The processor will be integrated into Audi's entire line of vehicles worldwide, beginning in 2013. The process is ISO 26262-certified.[12]

In summer of 2012 Tesla Motors began shipping the Model S all electric, high performance sedan, which contains two NVIDIA Tegra 3D Visual Computing Modules (VCM). One VCM powers the 17-inch touchscreen infotainment system, and one drives the 12.3-inch all digital instrument cluster."[13]

In March 2015, Nvidia announced the Tegra X1, the first SoC to have a graphics performance of 1 teraflop. At the announcement event, Nvidia showed off Epic Games' Unreal Engine 4 "Elemental" demo, running on a Tegra X1.

On October 20, 2016, Nvidia announced that the Nintendo Switch hybrid video game console will be powered by Tegra hardware.[14] On March 15, 2017, TechInsights revealed the Nintendo Switch is powered by a custom Tegra X1 (model T210), with lower clockspeeds.[15]

Models

Tegra APX

Tegra APX 2500
Tegra APX 2600
  • Enhanced NAND flash
  • Video codecs:[16]
    • 720p H.264 Baseline Profile encode or decode
    • 720p VC-1/WMV9 Advanced Profile decode
    • D-1 MPEG-4 Simple Profile encode or decode

Tegra 6xx

Tegra 600
  • Targeted for GPS segment and automotiveRed
  • Processor: ARM11 700 MHz MPCore
  • Memory: low-power DDR (DDR-333, 166 MHz)
  • SXGA, HDMI, USB, stereo jack
  • HD camera 720p
Tegra 650
  • Targeted for GTX of handheld and notebook
  • Processor: ARM11 800 MHz MPCore
  • Low power DDR (DDR-400, 200 MHz)
  • Less than 1 watt envelope
  • HD image processing for advanced digital still camera and HD camcorder functions
  • Display supports 1080p at 24 frame/s, HDMI v1.3, WSXGA+ LCD and CRT, and NTSC/PAL TV output
  • Direct support for Wi-Fi, disk drives, keyboard, mouse, and other peripherals
  • A complete board support package (BSP) to enable fast time to market for Windows Mobile-based designs

Tegra 2

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Nvidia Tegra 2 T20
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Nvidia Tegra 2 T20 die Shot

The second generation Tegra SoC has a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU, an ultra low power (ULP) GeForce GPU,[17] a 32-bit memory controller with either LPDDR2-600 or DDR2-667 memory, a 32 KB/32 KB L1 cache per core and a shared 1 MB L2 cache.[18] Tegra 2's Cortex A9 implementation does not include ARM's SIMD extension, NEON. There is a version of the Tegra 2 SoC supporting 3D displays; this SoC uses a higher clocked CPU and GPU.

The Tegra 2 video decoder is largely unchanged from the original Tegra and has limited support for HD formats.[19] The lack of support for high-profile H.264 is particularly troublesome when using online video streaming services.

Common features:

  • CPU cache: L1: 32 KB instruction + 32 KB data, L2: 1 MB
  • 40 nm semiconductor technology
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AP20H (Ventana/Unknown) Cortex-A921.0 GHz VLIW-based
VEC4 units[20]
4:4:4:4[21]300 MHz LPDDR2 300 MHz
DDR2 333 MHz
 ?32 bit
single-channel
2.4 GB/s
2.7 GB/s
Q1 2010
T20 (Harmony/Ventana) 333 MHz
AP25 1.2 GHz 400 MHz Q1 2011
T25
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AP20H Motorola Atrix 4G, Motorola Droid X2, Motorola Photon, LG Optimus 2X / LG Optimus Dual P990 / Optimus 2x SU660 (?), Samsung Galaxy R, Samsung Captivate Glide,
T-Mobile G2X P999, Acer Iconia Tab A200 and A500, LG Optimus Pad, Motorola Xoom,[22] Sony Tablet S, Dell Streak Pro,[23] Toshiba Thrive[24] tablet, T-Mobile G-Slate
AP25 Fusion Garage Grid 10[citation needed]
T20 Avionic Design Tamonten Processor Board,[25] Notion Ink Adam tablet, Olivetti OliPad 100, ViewSonic G Tablet, ASUS Eee Pad Transformer, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Toshiba AC100, CompuLab Trim-Slice nettop, Velocity Micro Cruz Tablet L510, Acer Iconia Tab A100
Un­known Tesla Motors Model S 2012~2017 and Model X 2015~2017 instrument cluster (IC)[26][27]
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Tegra 3

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The Ouya uses a Tegra 3 T33-P-A3.
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Nvidia Tegra 3 T30L

NVIDIA's Tegra 3 (codenamed "Kal-El")[28] is functionally a SoC with a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore CPU, but includes a fifth "companion" core in what Nvidia refers to as a "variable SMP architecture".[29] While all cores are Cortex-A9s, the companion core is manufactured with a low-power silicon process. This core operates transparently to applications and is used to reduce power consumption when processing load is minimal. The main quad-core portion of the CPU powers off in these situations.

Tegra 3 is the first Tegra release to support ARM's SIMD extension, NEON.

The GPU in Tegra 3 is an evolution of the Tegra 2 GPU, with 4 additional pixel shader units and higher clock frequency. It can also output video up to 2560×1600 resolution and supports 1080p MPEG-4 AVC/h.264 40 Mbit/s High-Profile, VC1-AP, and simpler forms of MPEG-4 such as DivX and Xvid.[30]

The Tegra 3 was released on November 9, 2011.[31]

Common features:

  • CPU cache: L1: 32 KB instruction + 32 KB data, L2: 1 MB
  • 40 nm LPG semiconductor technology by TSMC
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T30L Cortex-A94+11.2 GHz / up to 1.3 GHz VLIW-based
VEC4 units[20]
8:4:8:8[32]416 MHz DDR3-1333 ?32 bit
single-channel
5.3 GB/s[33] Q1 2012
T30 1.4 GHz / up to 1.5 GHz 520 MHz LPDDR2-1066
DDR3-L-1500
 ?4.3 GB/s
6.0 GB/s[34]
Q4 2011
AP33
T33 1.6 GHz / up to 1.7 GHz[33] DDR3-1600 ?6.4 GB/s[33] Q2 2012
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AP33 LG Optimus 4X HD, HTC One X, XOLO Play T1000,[35] Coolpad 8735
T30 Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime (TF201),[36] IdeaTab K2 / LePad K2,[37] Acer Iconia Tab A510, Fuhu Inc. nabi 2 Tablet,[38] Microsoft Surface RT,[39] Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11,[40][41]
T30I Tesla Model S 2012~2017 and Model X 2015~2017 media control unit (MCU)[27][42]
T30L Asus Transformer Pad TF300T, Microsoft Surface, Nexus 7 (2012),[43] Sony Xperia Tablet S, Acer Iconia Tab A210, Toshiba AT300 (Excite 10),[44][unreliable source?] BLU Quattro 4.5,[45] Coolpad 9070
T33 Asus Transformer Pad Infinity (TF700T), Fujitsu ARROWS X F-02E, Ouya, HTC One X+
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Tegra 4

The Tegra 4 (codenamed "Wayne") was announced on January 6, 2013, and is a SoC with a quad-core CPU, but includes a fifth low-power Cortex A15 companion core which is invisible to the OS and performs background tasks to save power. This power-saving configuration is referred to as "variable SMP architecture" and operates like the similar configuration in Tegra 3.[46]

The GeForce GPU in Tegra 4 is again an evolution of its predecessors. However, numerous feature additions and efficiency improvements were implemented. The number of processing resources was dramatically increased, and clock rate increased as well. In 3D tests, the Tegra 4 GPU is typically several times faster than that of Tegra 3.[47] Additionally, the Tegra 4 video processor has full support for hardware decoding and encoding of WebM video (up to 1080p 60 Mbit/s @ 60fps).[48]

Along with Tegra 4, Nvidia also introduced i500, an optional software modem based on Nvidia's acquisition of Icera, which can be reprogrammed to support new network standards. It supports category 3 (100 Mbit/s) LTE but will later be updated to Category 4 (150 Mbit/s).

Common features:

  • CPU cache: L1: 32 KB instruction + 32 KB data, L2: 2 MB
  • 28 nm HPL semiconductor technology
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T114[49][unreliable source?] Cortex-A154+1up to 1.9 GHz VLIW-based VEC4 units[50]72 (48:24:4)[20][50] 672 MHz[51] DDR3L or LPDDR3 ?32 bit dual-channelup to 14.9 GB/s (1866 MT/s data rate)[52][53] Q2 2013[54]
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T114 Nvidia Shield Portable, Tegra Note 7, Microsoft Surface 2, HP Slate 7 Extreme,[55] HP Slate 7 Beats Special Edition,[56] HP Slate 8 Pro,[57] HP SlateBook x2,[58] HP SlateBook 14,[59] HP Slate 21,[60] ZTE N988S, nabi Big Tab, Nuvola NP-1, Project Mojo, Asus Transformer Pad TF701T, Toshiba AT10-LE-A (Excite Pro), Vizio 10" tablet, Wexler.Terra 7, Wexler.Terra 10, Acer TA272HUL AIO, Xiaomi Mi 3 (TD-LTE version),[61] Coolpad 8970L (大观 4),[62] Audi Tablet,[63] Le Pan TC1020 10.1",[64] Matrimax iPLAY 7,[65] Kobo Arc 10HD[66]
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Tegra 4i

The Tegra 4i (codenamed "Grey") was announced on February 19, 2013. With hardware support for the same audio and video formats,[48] but using Cortex-A9 cores instead of Cortex-A15, the Tegra 4i is a low-power variant of the Tegra 4 and is designed for phones and tablets. Unlike its Tegra 4 counterpart, the Tegra 4i also integrates the Icera i500 LTE/HSPA+ baseband processor onto the same die.

Common features:

  • 28 nm HPM semiconductor technology
  • CPU cache: L1: 32 KB instruction + 32 KB data, L2: 1 MB
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T148?[67] Cortex-A9 "R4"4+1up to 2.0 GHz VLIW-based VEC4 units[50]60 (48:12:2)[50] 660 MHz[51] LPDDR332 bit single-channel6.4–7.5 GB/s (800–933 MHz)[53] Q1 2014
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T148? Blackphone, LG G2 mini LTE, Wiko Highway 4G,[68] Explay 4Game,[69] Wiko Wax[70][71] QMobile Noir LT-250[72]
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Tegra K1

Nvidia's Tegra K1 (codenamed "Logan") features ARM Cortex-A15 cores in a 4+1 configuration similar to Tegra 4, or Nvidia's 64-bit Project Denver dual-core processor as well as a Kepler graphics processing unit with support for Direct3D 12, OpenGL ES 3.1, CUDA 6.5, OpenGL 4.4/OpenGL 4.5, and Vulkan.[73][74] Nvidia claims that it outperforms both the Xbox 360 and the PS3, whilst consuming significantly less power.[75]

Support Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression.[76]

In late April 2014, Nvidia shipped the "Jetson TK1" development board containing a Tegra K1 SoC and running Ubuntu Linux.[77][unreliable source?]

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T124[80] Cortex-A15 R3
(32-bit)
4+1 up to 2.3 GHz[81] GK20A
(Kepler)
192:8:4[82] 756–951 MHz 290–365[83] DDR3L
LPDDR3[82]
max 8 GB
with 40-bit address extension2
64 bit 17 GB/s[82] Q2 2014
T132 Denver
(64-bit)
2[82] up to 2.5 GHz[81] max 8 GB  ?  ? Q3 2014
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Devices

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T124 Jetson TK1 development board,[84] Nvidia Shield Tablet,[85] Acer Chromebook 13,[86] HP Chromebook 14 G3,[87] Xiaomi MiPad,[88] Snail Games
OBox, UTStarcom MC8718, Google Project Tango tablet,[89] Apalis TK1 System on Module,[90] Fuze Tomahawk F1,[91] JXD Singularity S192[92]
T132 HTC Nexus 9[93][94]
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In December 2015, the web page of wccftech.com published an article stating that Tesla is going to use a Tegra K1 based design derived from the template of the Nvidia Visual Computing Module (VCM) for driving the infotainment systems and providing visual driving aid in the respective vehicle models of that time.[95] This news has, as of now, found no similar successor or other clear confirmation later on in any other place on such a combination of a multimedia with an auto pilot system for these vehicle models.

Tegra X1

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The X1 is the basis for the Nintendo Switch video game console.
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Die shot of the Tegra X1
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Tegra X1 in Nvidia Shield TV

Released in 2015, Nvidia's Tegra X1 (codenamed "Erista") features two CPU clusters, one with four ARM Cortex-A57 cores and the other with four ARM Cortex-A53 cores, as well as a Maxwell-based graphics processing unit.[96][97] It supports Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression.[76] Only one cluster of cores can be active at once, with the cluster switch being handled by software on the BPMP-L. Devices utilizing the Tegra X1 have only been seen to utilize the cluster with the more powerful ARM Cortex-A57 cores. The other cluster with four ARM Cortex-A53 cores cannot be accessed without first powering down the Cortex-A57 cores (both clusters must be in the CC6 off state).[98] Nvidia has removed the ARM Cortex-A53 cores from later versions of technical documentation, implying that they have been removed from the die.[99][100] The Tegra X1 was found to be vulnerable to a Fault Injection (FI) voltage glitching attack, which allowed for arbitrary code execution and homebrew software on the devices it was implemented in.[101]

A revision (codenamed "Mariko") with greater power efficiency, known officially as Tegra X1+ was released in 2019,[102] fixing the Fusée Gelée exploit. It's also known as T214 and T210B01.

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width
Band-
width4
Availability
T210 ODNX02-A2

TM670D-A1

TM670M-A2

TM671D-A2

TSMC 20 nm Cortex-A57 +
Cortex-A53[106]:753
A57: 4
A53: 4[106]
A57: 2.2 GHz[107]
A53: 1.3 GHz
GM20B
(Maxwell)[106]:14
256:[106] 16:16 1000 MHz 512 1024 LPDDR3 / LPDDR4 8 GB[106] 64 bit[106] 25.6 GB/s Q2 2015
TM660M-A2 A57: 1.428 GHz
A53: ? GHz
128:16:16 921 MHz 236 472 LPDDR3? / LPDDR4:773 4 GB March 2019
T214 / T210b01 ODNX10-A1

TM675M-A1

TSMC 16 nm Cortex-A57 A57: 4 A57: 2.1 GHz[108] GM21B (Maxwell)[109] 256:16:16 1267 MHz[110] 649 1298 LPDDR4 /LPDDR4X 8 GB 34.1 GB/s Q2 2019
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3 Maximum validated amount of memory, implementation is board specific

4 Maximum validated memory bandwidth, implementation is board specific

Devices

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T210 ODNX02-A2 Nintendo Switch (2017, HAC-001) [111][15]
TM670D-A1 Nvidia Shield Android TV (2015)
TM670M-A2 Nvidia Shield Android TV (2017)
TM660M-A2 Jetson Nano 4 GB, Jetson Nano 2 GB
TM671D-A2 Google Pixel C
Un­known Nvidia Jetson TX1 development board,[112] Nvidia Drive CX & PX
T210b01 ODNX10-A1 Nintendo Switch (2019, HAC-001(-01)), Nintendo Switch: OLED Model (HEG-001), Nintendo Switch Lite (HDH-001)
TM675M-A1 Nvidia Shield Android TV (2019)
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Tegra X2

Nvidia's Tegra X2[113][114] (codenamed "Parker") features Nvidia's own custom general-purpose ARMv8-compatible core Denver 2 as well as code-named Pascal graphics processing core with GPGPU support.[115] The chips are made using FinFET process technology using TSMC's 16 nm FinFET+ manufacturing process.[116][117][118]

  • CPU: Nvidia Denver2 ARMv8 (64-bit) dual-core + ARMv8 ARM Cortex-A57 quad-core (64-bit)
  • RAM: up to 8 GB LPDDR4[119]
  • GPU: Pascal-based, 256 CUDA cores; type: GP10B[120]
  • TSMC 16 nm, FinFET process
  • TDP: 7.5–15 W[121]
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T186 Denver2 +
Cortex-A57
2 + 4 Denver2: 1.4–2.0 GHz
A57: 1.2–2.0 GHz
GP10B (Pascal)[122][unreliable source?] 256:16:16 (2)[123] 854–1465 MHz 437–750 874–1500 LPDDR4 8 GB 128 bit 59.7 GB/s
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T186 Nvidia Drive PX2 (variants),
ZF ProAI 1.1[124]
T186 Nvidia Jetson TX2[121]
Un­known Mercedes-Benz MBUX (infotainment system)[125]
Un­known 1 unit along with 1 GPU semiconductor is part of the ECU for "Tesla vision" functionality in all Tesla vehicles since October 2016[126][127]
T186 Magic Leap One[128][129] (mixed environment glasses)
Un­known Skydio 2 (drone)[130]
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Xavier

The Xavier Tegra SoC, named after the comic book character Professor X, was announced on 28 September 2016, and by March 2019, it had been released.[131] It contains 7 billion transistors and 8 custom ARMv8 cores, a Volta GPU with 512 CUDA cores, an open sourced TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) called DLA (Deep Learning Accelerator).[132][133] It is able to encode and decode 8K Ultra HD (7680×4320). Users can configure operating modes at 10 W, 15 W, and 30 W TDP as needed and the die size is 350 mm2.[134][135][136] Nvidia confirmed the fabrication process to be 12 nm FinFET at CES 2018.[137]

  • CPU: Nvidia custom Carmel ARMv8.2-A (64-bit), 8 cores 10-wide superscalar[138]
  • GPU: Volta-based, 512 CUDA cores with 1.4 TFLOPS;[139] type: GV11B[140][120]
  • TSMC 12 nm, FinFET process[137]
  • 20 TOPS DL and 160 SPECint @ 20 W;[134] 30 TOPS DL @ 30 W[136] (TOPS DL = Deep Learning Tera-Ops)
    • 20 TOPS DL via the GPU based tensor cores
    • 10 TOPS DL (INT8) via the DLA unit that shall achieve 5 TFLOPS (FP16)[139]
  • 1.6 TOPS in the PVA unit (Programmable Vision Accelerator,[141] for StereoDisparity/OpticalFlow/ImageProcessing)
  • 1.5 GPix/s in the ISP unit (Image Signal Processor, with native full-range HDR and tile processing support)
  • Video processor for 1.2 GPix/s encoding and 1.8 GPix/s decode[139] including 8k video support[135]
  • MIPI-CSI-3 with 16 lanes[142][143]
  • 1 Gbit/s Ethernet
  • 10 Gbit/s Ethernet
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width
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width
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T194[144] Un­known Carmel 8 up to 2.26 GHz GV10B[145] (Volta) 512:32:16 (8, 64)[146] 854–1377 MHz 874–1410 1748–2820 LPDDR4X 16 GB 256-bit 137 GB/s March 2019
NX (15W) TE860M-A2 2, 4 or 6 up to 1.4 GHz (Hexa and Quad Core) or up to 1.9 GHz (Dual Core) GV10B (Volta) 384:24:16 (6, 48)[147] 1100 MHz 845 1690 LPDDR4X 8 GB 128-bit 51.2 GB/s March 2020
NX (10W) 2 or 4 up to 1.2 GHz (Quad Core) or up to 1.5 GHz (Dual Core) 800 MHz 614 1229 LPDDR4X 8 GB 128-bit 51.2 GB/s March 2020
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T194 Un­known Nvidia Drive Xavier (Drive PX-series)[148]
(formerly named Xavier AI Car Supercomputer)
Un­known Nvidia Drive Pegasus (Drive PX-series)[148]
Un­known Nvidia Drive AGX Xavier Developer Kit[149]
Un­known Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier Developer Kit[150]
Un­known Nvidia Jetson Xavier[150]
TE860M-A2 Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX[151]
Un­known Nvidia Clara AGX[152] "Clara AGX is based on NVIDIA Xavier and NVIDIA Turing GPUs."[153][unreliable source?]
Un­known Bosch and Nvidia designed Self Driving System[154]
Un­known ZF ProAI[155][156]
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On the Linux Kernel Mailing List, a Tegra194 based development board with type ID "P2972-0000" got reported: The board consists of the P2888 compute module and the P2822 baseboard.[157]

Orin

Nvidia announced the next-gen SoC codename Orin on March 27, 2018, at GPU Technology Conference 2018.[158] It contains 17 billion transistors and 12 ARM Hercules cores and is capable of 200 INT8 TOPs @ 65W.[159]

The Drive AGX Orin board system family was announced on December 18, 2019, at GTC China 2019. Nvidia has sent papers to the press documenting that the known (from Xavier series) clock and voltage scaling on the semiconductors and by pairing multiple such chips a wider range of application can be realized with the thus resulting board concepts.[160] In early 2021, Nvidia announced the Chinese vehicle company NIO will be using an Orin-based chip in their cars.[161]

The so far published specifications for Orin are:

  • CPU: 12× Arm Cortex-A78AE (Hercules) ARMv8.2-A (64-bit)[162][163]
  • GPU: Ampere-based, 2048[164] CUDA cores and 64 tensor cores1; "with up to 131 Sparse TOPs of INT8 Tensor compute, and up to 5.32 FP32 TFLOPs of CUDA compute."[165]
    • 5.3 CUDA TFLOPs (FP32)[166]
    • 10.6 CUDA TFLOPs (FP16)[166]
  • Samsung 8 nm process[166]
  • 275 TOPS (INT8) DL[166]
    • 170 TOPS DL (INT8) via the GPU
    • 105 TOPS DL (INT8) via the 2x NVDLA 2.0 units (DLA, Deep Learning Accelerator)
  • 85 TOPS DL (FP16)[166]
  • 5 TOPS in the PVA v2.0 unit (Programmable Vision Accelerator for Feature Tracking)
  • 1.85 GPix/s in the ISP unit (Image Signal Processor, with native full-range HDR and tile processing support)
  • Video processor for ? GPix/s encoding and ? GPix/s decode
  • 4× 10 Gbit/s Ethernet, 1× 1 Gbit/s Ethernet

1 Orin uses the double-rate tensor cores in the A100, not the standard tensor cores in consumer Ampere GPUs.

Nvidia announced the latest member of the family, "Orin Nano" in September 2022 at the GPU Technology Conference 2022.[167] The Orin product line now features SoC and SoM(System-On-Module) based on the core Orin design and scaled for different uses from 60W all the way down to 5W. While less is known about the exact SoC's that are being manufactured, Nvidia has publicly shared detailed technical specifications about the entire Jetson Orin SoM product line. These module specifications illustrate how Orin scales providing insight into future devices that contain an Orin derived SoC.

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configuration1
Frequency

(MHz)

TFLOPS
(FP32)
TFLOPS
(FP16)
TOPS

(INT8)

Type Amount Bus
width
Band-
width
Availability
AGX Orin 64 GB [168][169] Cortex-A78AE 9 MB cache[165] 12 up to 2.2[165] Ampere 2048:64:8 (16, 8, 2)[165] up to 1300[165] 5.32[165] 10.649 up to 275[165] LPDDR5 64 GB 256-bit 204.8 GB/s[165] Sample 2021, Kit Q1 2022, Prod Dec 2022[170] 15-60[165]
AGX Orin 32 GB[170] Cortex-A78AE 6 MB cache[170] 8 up to 2.2[170] Ampere 1792:56:7 (14, 7, 2)[170] up to 930[170] 3.365[165] 6.73 up to 200[170] LPDDR5 32 GB[170] 256-bit[170] 204.8 GB/s[170] Oct 2022[170] 15-40[170]
Orin NX 16 GB[171] TE980-M[172] Cortex-A78AE 6 MB cache[171] 8 up to 2[171] Ampere 1024:32:4 (8, 4, 1)[171] up to 918[171] 1.88 3.76 up to 100[171] LPDDR5 16 GB[171] 128-bit[171] 102.4 GB/s[171] Dec 2022[171] 10-25[171]
Orin NX 8 GB[170] TE980-M[172] Cortex-A78AE 5.5 MB cache[170] 6 up to 2[170] Ampere 1024:32:4 (8, 4, 1)[170] up to 765[170] 1.57 3.13 up to 70[170] LPDDR5 8 GB[170] 128-bit[170] 102.4 GB/s[170] Jan 2023[170] 10-20[170]
Orin Nano 8 GB[170] Cortex-A78AE 5.5 MB cache[170] 6 up to 1.5[170] Ampere 1024:32:4 (8, 4, 1)[170] up to 625[170] 1.28 2.56 up to 40[170] LPDDR5 8 GB[170] 128-bit[170] 68 GB/s[170] Jan 2023[170] 7-15[170]
Orin Nano 4 GB[170] Cortex-A78AE 5.5 MB cache[170] 6 up to 1.5[170] Ampere 512:16:2 (4, 2, 1)[170] up to 625[170] 0.64 1.28 up to 20[170] LPDDR5 4 GB[170] 64-bit[170] 34 GB/s[170] Jan 2023[170] 5-10[170]
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1 CUDA cores : Tensor cores : RT cores (SMs, TPCs, GPCs)

Devices

More information Model, Devices ...
Model Devices Comments
T234[173] Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin[174][165] comes in 32 GB and 64 GB RAM configurations, available as standalone module or devkit;

intended for industrial robotics and/or embedded HPC applications

Un­known Nvidia Jetson Orin NX[171] mid-power SODIMM-form factor Orin-series module, available only as standalone module;

pin-compatible with Xavier NX carrier

Un­known Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano[175] low-power, cost-effective SODIMM-form factor Orin-series module, available as standalone module or devkit;

intended for entry-level usage

Un­known Nio Adam[176][177] built from 4x Nvidia Drive Orin, totals to 48 CPU cores and 8,192 CUDA cores;
for use in vehicles ET7 in March 2022 and ET5 in September 2022
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Grace

The Grace CPU is an NVIDIA-developed ARM Neoverse CPU platform, targeted at large-scale AI and HPC applications, available within several NVIDIA products. The NVIDIA OVX platform combines the Grace Superchip (two Grace dies on one board) with desktop NVIDIA GPUs in a server form-factor, while the NVIDIA HGX platform is available with either the Grace Superchip or the Grace Hopper Superchip.[178] The latter is an HPC platform in of itself, combining a Grace CPU with a Hopper-based GPU, announced by NVIDIA on March 22, 2022.[179] Kernel patchsets indicate that a single Grace CPU is also known as T241, placing it under the Tegra SoC branding, despite the chip itself not including a GPU (a referenced T241 patchset cites impact to "NVIDIA server platforms that use more than two T241 chips...interconnected," pointing to the Grace Superchip design).[180]

More information Model number, CPU ...
Model
number
CPU Memory Adoption
Processor Cores Frequency Cache TFLOPS

(FP64)

Type Amount Bus
width
Band-
width
Availability
T241[181] Grace 72 ARM Neoverse V2 Cores (ARM9)[182]  ? L1: 64 KB I-cache + 64 KB D-cache per core

L2: 1 MB per core L3: 117 MB shared[182]

3.551[182] LPDDR5X ECC[182] Up to 480 GB1[182]  ? 500 GB/s[182] H2 2023[183]
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1Figures cut in half from full Grace Superchip specification

Atlan

Nvidia announced the next-gen SoC codename Atlan on April 12, 2021, at GPU Technology Conference 2021.[184][185]

Nvidia announced the cancellation of Atlan on September 20, 2022, and their next SoC will be Thor.[186]

Functional units known so far are:

  • Grace Next CPU[187]
  • Ada Lovelace GPU[188]
  • Bluefield DPU (Data Processing Unit)
  • other Accelerators
  • Security Engine
  • Functional Safety Island
  • On-Chip-Memory
  • External Memory Interface(s)
  • High-Speed-IO Interfaces
More information Model number, CPU ...
Model
number
CPU GPU Deep Learning Memory Adoption
Processor Cores Frequency Micro-
architecture
Core
configuration1
Frequency GFLOPS
(FP32)
GFLOPS
(FP16)
TOPS

(INT8)

Type Amount Bus
width
Band-
width
Availability
T254? Grace-Next[187]  ?  ? Ada Lovelace[189]  ?  ?  ?  ? >1000[190]  ?  ?  ?  ? Cancelled[191]
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Thor

Nvidia announced the next-gen SoC codename Thor on September 20, 2022, at GPU Technology Conference 2022, replacing the cancelled Atlan.[186] A patchset adding support for Tegra264 to mainline Linux was submitted May 5, 2023, likely indicating initial support for Thor.[192]

Devices

More information Model number, CPU ...
Model
number
CPU GPU Deep Learning Memory Adoption
Processor Cores Frequency Micro-
architecture
Core
configuration1
Frequency GFLOPS
(FP32)
GFLOPS
(FP16)
TOPS

(FP8)

Type Amount Bus
width
Band-
width
Availability
T264? Arm Neoverse V3AE[195]  ?  ? Blackwell  ?  ?  ?  ? 2000[186]  ? 128 GB  ?  ? 2025[186]
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Comparison

More information Generation, Xavier ...
Generation Tegra 2 Tegra 3 Tegra 4 Tegra 4i Tegra K1 Tegra X1 Tegra X1+ Tegra X2 Xavier Orin Thor
CPU Instruction set ARMv7A (32bit) ARMv8A (64bit) ARMv8.2A (64bit) ARMv9.2A (64bit)
Cores 2 A9 4+1 A9 4+1 A15 4+1 A9 4+1 A15 2 Denver 4 A53 (disabled) +
4 A57
2 Denver2 + 4 A57 8 Carmel 12 A78AE Neoverse V3AE
L1 cache (I/D) 32/32 KB 128/64 KB 32/32 KB + 64/32 KB 128/64 KB + 48/32 KB 128/64 KB 64/64 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 2 MB 128 KB + 2 MB 2 MB + 2 MB 8 MB 3 MB ?
L3 cache N/A 4 MB 6 MB ?
GPU Architecture Vec4 Kepler Maxwell Pascal Volta Ampere Blackwell
CUDA cores 4+4* 8+4* 48+24* 48+12* 192 256 512 2048 ?
Tensor cores N/A 64 ?
RT cores N/A 8 ?
RAM Protocol DDR2/LPDDR2 DDR3/LPDDR2 DDR3/LPDDR3 LPDDR3/LPDDR4 LPDDR4/LPDDR4X LPDDR5 ?
Max. size 1 GB 2 GB 4 GB 8 GB 32 GB 64 GB 128 GB
Bandwidth 2.7 GB/s 6.4 GB/s 7.5 GB/s 14.88 GB/s 25.6 GB/s 34.1 GB/s 59.7 GB/s 136.5 GB/s 204.8 GB/s ?
Process 40 nm 28 nm 20 nm 16 nm 12 nm 8 nm 4 nm
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* VLIW-based Vec4: Pixel shaders + Vertex shaders. Since Kepler, Unified shaders are used.

Software support

FreeBSD

FreeBSD supports a number of different Tegra models and generations, ranging from Tegra K1,[196] to Tegra 210.[197]

Linux

Nvidia distributes proprietary device drivers for Tegra through OEMs and as part of its "Linux for Tegra" (formerly "L4T") development kit, also Nvidia provides JetPack SDK with "Linux for Tegra" and other tools with it. The newer and more powerful devices of the Tegra family are now supported by Nvidia's own Vibrante Linux distribution. Vibrante comes with a larger set of Linux tools plus several Nvidia provided libraries for acceleration in the area of data processing and especially image processing for driving safety and automated driving up to the level of deep learning and neuronal networks that make e.g. heavy use of the CUDA capable accelerator blocks, and via OpenCV can make use of the NEON vector extensions of the ARM cores.

As of April 2012, due to different "business needs" from that of their GeForce line of graphics cards, Nvidia and one of their Embedded Partners, Avionic Design GmbH from Germany, are also working on submitting open-source drivers for Tegra upstream to the mainline Linux kernel.[198][199] Nvidia co-founder & CEO laid out the Tegra processor roadmap using Ubuntu Unity in GPU Technology Conference 2013.[200][unreliable source?]

By end of 2018 it is evident that Nvidia employees have contributed substantial code parts to make the T186 and T194 models run for HDMI display and audio with the upcoming official Linux kernel 4.21 in about Q1 2019. The affected software modules are the open source Nouveau and the closed source Nvidia graphics drivers along with the Nvidia proprietary CUDA interface.[201][unreliable source?]

As of May, 2022, NVIDIA has open-sourced their GPU kernel modules for both Jetson and desktop platforms, allowing all but proprietary userspace libraries to be open-source on Tegra platforms with official NVIDIA drivers starting with T234 (Orin).[202]

QNX

The Drive PX2 board was announced with QNX RTOS support at the April 2016 GPU Technology Conference.[203]

Similar platforms

SoCs and platforms with comparable specifications (e.g. audio/video input, output and processing capability, connectivity, programmability, entertainment/embedded/automotive capabilities & certifications, power consumption) are:

See also

References

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