NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX 8 GB: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started Jetson Xavier NX 8 GB sales 14 May 2020 at a recommended price of $399. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Volta architecture and made with 12 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 8 GB of LPDDR4X memory clocked at 1.87 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 59.71 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x4 interface. Power consumption is at 15 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Jetson Xavier NX 8 GB: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Volta (2017−2020) | |
| GPU code name | GV10B | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 14 May 2020 (4 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $399 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
Jetson Xavier NX 8 GB's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Jetson Xavier NX 8 GB's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 384 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 854 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| Boost clock speed | 1100 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 9,000 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 12 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 26.40 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.8448 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 24 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Tensor Cores | 48 | of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Jetson Xavier NX 8 GB 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 4.0 x4 |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Jetson Xavier NX 8 GB: 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 | LPDDR4X | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1866 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 59.71 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Jetson Xavier NX 8 GB. 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 compatibility
APIs supported by Jetson Xavier NX 8 GB, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | |
| CUDA | 7.2 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Jetson Xavier NX 8 GB is Radeon HD 7850M.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
