Nvidia today announced its most affordable supercomputer to date, the $249 Jetson Orin Nano Super.
This small device that fits in the palm of your hand helps hobbyists, students, and small businesses power their own large-scale language models, build AI agents, and deploy AI-based robots. Nvidia says it’s perfect for people who are “interested in developing skills in generative AI, robotics, and computer vision and want to turn ideas into reality.”
In a short promotional video, CEO Jensen Huang said the Jetson Orin Nano Super “does everything HGX does,” referring to the Nvidia HGX AI supercomputer. It consumes only 25 watts of power and can process “nearly 70 trillion operations per second,” or 67 INT8 TOPS. Compared to the previous generation, Nano Super comes with 50% more memory at 1023GB/S.
“General humanoid robotics is just around the corner,” Huang said.
If you already own a Jetson Orin Nano developer kit, software updates can improve its performance and meet the performance of the new product. The hardware is the same, but the update enables new power modes and increases GPU, memory, and CPU clocks. This developer kit will be renamed to Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit.
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The Jetson Orin Nano Super brings far more power to hobbyists’ homes, but it still powers Elon Musk’s supercomputer with 200,000 H100 and H200 Nvidia GPUs (ultimately 1 million (I would like to expand it to individuals). Still, generative AI could become more accessible and affordable to the masses.
Nvidia is rumored to release two next-generation graphics game cards for the Predator Orion 7000 desktop system, the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, at CES 2025.
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