Nvidia JetPack 2.3 Doubles Deep Learning And Compilation Performance

[Lucian Armasu]

Nvidia released its latest JetPack 2.3 developer software suite for the Jetson TX1. The new tools enable developers to run algorithms and compile software twice as fast on the Jetson TX1.

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[Jake Hall]

I didn't understand any of that... I feel like such a piece of <Language, Watch it please.>

 

[bit_user]

Impressive that software optimizations accounted for such an improvement. I wonder how much of it is down to simply improving data access patterns.

For those who don't know, this has 4x A57 cores and 256 Maxwell cores. Memory is dual-channel LPDDR4-1600 w/ 2 MB L2 Cache. 20 nm process node. 512 GFLOPS, single-precision; 1024 GFLOPS @ fp16. ~10 W.

They call it an "embedded supercomputer". But, in terms of raw performance, a low-end gaming desktop with a GTX 950 is faster.