Jetson Orin NX 8 GB vs Tegra X1

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGM20BGA10B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateno dataMarch 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$399

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2561024
Core clock speed1000 MHz765 MHz
Number of transistors2,000 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology20 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate16.0024.48
Floating-point processing power0.512 TFLOPS1.567 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs1632
Tensor Coresno data32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x4
WidthIGPno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeSystem SharedLPDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared8 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1600 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data102.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 20 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 20 Watt

Tegra X1 has 33.3% lower power consumption.

Jetson Orin NX 8 GB, on the other hand, has a 150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Tegra X1 and Jetson Orin NX 8 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tegra X1 is a desktop card while Jetson Orin NX 8 GB is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Tegra X1
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