Infrastructure / Edge AI hardware

NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX

A compact mid-range edge-AI system-on-module (SoM) in a 260-pin SO-DIMM form factor, delivering up to 157 TOPS via a 1792-core Ampere GPU with 56 Tensor Cores and an 8-core Arm Cortex-A78AE CPU. It comes in 8GB and 16GB LPDDR5 variants. Made by NVIDIA, it slots between the Orin Nano and AGX Orin and is widely used in drones, cameras, and compact robotics for local LLM/vision workloads.

Verified live 2026-06-22 via primary sources. Public datasheets and purchasable through distributors, but the SDK depends on proprietary NVIDIA blobs under license.

Openness

3 high confidence

3.0

schematics: partial (module datasheet + carrier design guide public)
toolchain: closed (JetPack/Jetson Linux proprietary (NVIDIA SLA))
datasheets: public
blobs: required (proprietary drivers/bootloader)
retail: distributor (via distributors)

Public datasheets and purchasable through distributors, but the SDK depends on proprietary NVIDIA blobs under license.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-orin recorded 2026-06-22
Official spec: up to 157 TOPS, 1792-core Ampere GPU, 8/16GB LPDDR5, 260-pin SO-DIMM

Adoption

3 medium confidence

3.0

Production SO-DIMM module sold through NVIDIA's distributor network with strong Jetson community; popular in commercial drones/robotics but not mass-market.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-orin recorded 2026-06-22
Module family page indicating production module availability

Capability

4 high confidence

4.0

Strong mid-range edge compute; the 16GB/157 TOPS variant handles sizeable models, below AGX Orin but above Orin Nano.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-orin recorded 2026-06-22
157 TOPS and up to 16GB LPDDR5 spec

Unchanged since 2026-08-01 (last edited, not re-checked)