Jetson Nano GPU vs Tesla T4

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking198not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency27.50no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameTU104GM20B
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date13 September 2018 (6 years ago)March 2019 (5 years ago)

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 cores2560128
Core clock speed585 MHz640 MHz
Boost clock speed1590 MHz921 MHz
Number of transistors13,600 million2,000 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm20 nm
Power consumption (TDP)70 Watt10 Watt
Texture fill rate254.414.74
Floating-point processing power8.141 TFLOPS0.2358 TFLOPS
ROPs6416
TMUs16016
Tensor Cores320no data
Ray Tracing Cores40no data

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount16 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1250 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth320.0 GB/sno 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1
CUDA7.55.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 12 nm 20 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 70 Watt 10 Watt

Tesla T4 has a 66.7% more advanced lithography process.

Jetson Nano GPU, on the other hand, has 600% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla T4 and Jetson Nano GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla T4 is a workstation card while Jetson Nano GPU is a notebook one.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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