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NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin

NVIDIA

NVIDIA's high-end edge-AI system-on-module, delivering up to 275 TOPS from a 2048-core Ampere GPU with 64 tensor cores alongside a 12-core Arm Cortex-A78AE CPU. It ships in 32GB and 64GB LPDDR5 variants on a 699-pin module, and is the flagship Jetson part for robotics and autonomous machines, able to run large language and vision-language models at the edge.

The openness axis weighs public datasheets and commercial availability against an SDK that requires NVIDIA-supplied binary drivers. Verified 2026-08-13 via the Jetson Orin product page and the Jetson Linux developer page.

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 commercially purchasable, but SDK relies on proprietary NVIDIA blobs under license, placing it in the documented tier. The family page publishes module data sheets and points designers at the Product Design Guide rather than releasing the module's own board files, routes buyers through the Jetson partner ecosystem, and Jetson Linux 39.2.1 ships kernel, UEFI bootloader and NVIDIA drivers under the NVIDIA Software License Agreement.

Adoption

3 medium confidence
3.0

Available as a dev kit and production module through NVIDIA's distributor network with a large Jetson community, but the high price targets professional robotics.

Capability

5 high confidence
5.0

Top-tier edge-AI compute; the 64GB/275 TOPS variant runs large models that exceed smaller Orin modules. The Orin comparison table reads 275 SPARSE INT8 TOPS and 64GB 256-bit LPDDR5 for AGX Orin against 157 TOPS / 16GB for Orin NX and 67 TOPS / 8GB for Orin Nano. It is the top of the Orin line and the highest capability in this category.

Verified 2026-08-13