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Pascal-based Jetson modules and Tensor Cores for INT8 inference

Asked as: “Do any of the Pascal-based Jetson modules have Tensor Cores for INT8 inference?”

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No. None of our Pascal-based Jetson products have Tensor Cores. I found five Pascal products, all in the Jetson TX2 family, and each one shows a Tensor Core count of 0. They also have no NVDLA (deep learning accelerator) engines, so any INT8 inference on these modules runs on the 256 CUDA cores.

Pascal-based Jetson products developer... +4developer.nvidia.com ↗“compute.tensor_cores=0, compute.nvdla_engines=0, compute.gpu_cuda_cores=256, compute.gpu_architecture=Pascal”developer.nvidia.com ↗“compute.tensor_cores=0, compute.nvdla_engines=0, compute.gpu_cuda_cores=256, compute.gpu_architecture=Pascal”developer.nvidia.com ↗“compute.tensor_cores=0, compute.nvdla_engines=0, compute.gpu_cuda_cores=256, compute.gpu_architecture=Pascal”developer.nvidia.com ↗“compute.tensor_cores=0, compute.nvdla_engines=0, compute.gpu_cuda_cores=256, compute.gpu_architecture=Pascal”developer.nvidia.com ↗“compute.tensor_cores=0, compute.nvdla_engines=0, compute.gpu_cuda_cores=256, compute.gpu_architecture=Pascal”

ProductTypeTensor CoresNVDLA EnginesCUDA Cores
Jetson TX2System-on-Module00256
Jetson TX2 4GBSystem-on-Module00256
Jetson TX2 NXSystem-on-Module00256
Jetson TX2iSystem-on-Module00256
Jetson TX2 Developer KitDeveloper Kit00256

Jetson TX2, TX2 4GB and the TX2 Developer Kit are also marked end-of-life (EOL). developer... +2developer.nvidia.com ↗“identity.lifecycle_status=EOL”developer.nvidia.com ↗“identity.lifecycle_status=EOL”developer.nvidia.com ↗“identity.lifecycle_status=EOL”

None of these products has an INT8 TOPS figure listed. The Jetson TX2 description gives a GPU figure only in FP16: 1.33 TFLOPS. developer...developer.nvidia.com ↗“1.33 TFLOPS FP16”

Sources

  1. Jetson TX2 developer.nvidia.com