NVIDIA Jetson TK1: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
NVIDIA started Jetson TK1 sales 15 October 2014. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Kepler 2.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 2 GB of DDR3L memory clocked at 0.47 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 7.472 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x1 interface. Power consumption is at 8 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Jetson TK1: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015) | |
| GPU code name | GK20A | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 15 October 2014 (10 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Jetson TK1's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Jetson TK1's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 192 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 756 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Boost clock speed | 951 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 8 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 7.608 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.3652 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 128 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Jetson TK1 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x1 |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Jetson TK1: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | DDR3L | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 467 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 7.472 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Jetson TK1. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | Portable Device Dependent |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by Jetson TK1, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 6.5 (5.1) | |
| OpenGL | ES 3.1 | of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | |
| CUDA | 3.2 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Jetson TK1 is Radeon HD 8550G.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Jetson TK1 according to our statistics.
