Jetson Xavier NX GPU vs Qualcomm Adreno 690

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking805not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency26.27no data
Architectureno dataVolta (2017−2020)
GPU code nameno dataGV10B
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date6 December 2018 (5 years ago)14 May 2020 (4 years 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 coresno data384
Core clock speedno data854 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1377 MHz
Number of transistorsno data9,000 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)7 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data33.05
Floating-point processing powerno data1.058 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data24
Tensor Coresno data48

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).

Interfaceno dataIGP
Lengthno data70 mm
Widthno dataIGP

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 typeno dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
Shared memory+no data

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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX1212 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-7.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 December 2018 14 May 2020
Chip lithography 5 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 7 Watt 15 Watt

Qualcomm Adreno 690 has a 140% more advanced lithography process, and 114.3% lower power consumption.

Jetson Xavier NX GPU, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Qualcomm Adreno 690 and Jetson Xavier NX GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Qualcomm Adreno 690 is a notebook card while Jetson Xavier NX GPU is a desktop one.


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