Jetson Xavier NX 8 GB vs Tegra 3

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Primary details

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

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureVLIW Vec4 (2010−2013)Volta (2017−2020)
GPU code nameTegra 3GV10B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date9 November 2011 (13 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 speed416 MHz854 MHz
Boost clock speed520 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors10 million9,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate4.16026.40
Floating-point processing powerno data0.8448 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs824
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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x4

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 typeSystem SharedLPDDR4X
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared8 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1866 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data59.71 GB/s
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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectXN/A12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.0
OpenGLES 2.04.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-7.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 November 2011 14 May 2020
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 15 Watt

Jetson Xavier NX 8 GB has an age advantage of 8 years, a 233.3% more advanced lithography process, and 33.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tegra 3 and Jetson Xavier NX 8 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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