Nvidia just launched its latest pascal-powered Jetson TX2. The board is said to have two times performance but draws twice less power.
At an Al meetup event in San Francisco, Nvidia Jetson TX2 was just launched along with the JetPack 3.0 Al SDK. According to a blog from their website, Nvidia confirmed that Jetson is the world's leading low-power embedded platform that enables server class Al to compute performance.
Because of this, the release of the Nvidia Jetson TX2 had been very trending, since it is said to be twice better than the TX1. PCWorld reported that aside from the Jetson TX1, the Nvidia Jetson TX2 is faced in a great competition with the most widely known board computer, the Raspberry Pi.
However, the Nvidia Jetson TX2 got the size of the Raspberry Pi in a full Linux mode. It has the company's fastest GPU which is strongly based on Nvidia's latest Pascal architecture.
With the Pascal-powered GPU on the Nvidia Jetson TX2, the computer will certainly bring a vision to robots and drones. This will help robots and drones a lot in visualizing, navigating and recognizing the objects.
Aside from this, Nvidia claims that the Jetson TX2 delivers 1.5 teraflops giving two times more performance, but will draw two times lesser power as compared to the Jetson TX1 model. However, even though the Raspberry Pi comes with a lower performance, it's price with the Jetson TX2 model is said to be far better.
Nvidia Jetson TX2 comes with a great performance at a high price. It has a developer kit packed with major ports including Ethernet at the regular price of $599. Meanwhile, students can have their discounted price for only $299.
Along with this is the stripped-down version of the Nvidia Jetson TX2 model with fewer ports that the regular at the price of $399 for every 1,000 units bought. The price is higher than the previous model for the Nvidia Jetson TX2 is not meant for basic robots or drones, but for heavily equipped vision applications that need the best GPU.
