Product profile
Jetson Orin NX 16GB
Jetson Orin NX 16GB is NVIDIA's compact embedded AI computer module for robots and autonomous machines. Its Ampere GPU, eight-core Arm CPU, 16 GB LPDDR5 me...
Facts
- Company
- NVIDIA
- Product type
- component
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- Embedded robotics AI compute
- Website
- https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-orin/
About Jetson Orin NX 16GB
Jetson Orin NX 16GB is a production system-on-module in NVIDIA's Jetson Orin family, sized for embedded machines with constrained space, power and thermal budgets. The module combines a 1,024-core Ampere GPU with 32 Tensor cores, an eight-core Arm Cortex-A78AE CPU, two NVIDIA Deep Learning Accelerators and 16 GB of 128-bit LPDDR5 memory delivering 102 GB/s peak bandwidth. Current MAXN SUPER support raises advertised sparse INT8 performance to 157 TOPS.
Robotics developers use the module as the compute layer behind camera and lidar processing, learned perception, sensor fusion and local autonomy applications. High-speed CSI and PCIe interfaces connect sensors and accelerators, while the Jetson software stack supplies operating-system, CUDA and AI tooling. The TOPS figure is a peak sparse-inference metric under a supported power mode, not a measure of complete robot performance; application speed depends on model precision, software, thermals, I/O and the carrier-board design.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Edge AI module
Core: Jetson Orin NX 16GB
Function: Onboard AI compute
Audience: Robotics OEMs
Specifications
- ai_performance_tops
- 157 TOPS
- cpu_cores
- Arm Cortex-A78AE cores
- cuda_cores
- 1024 cores
- deployment
- Embedded module for autonomous machines, robots and edge AI systems
- maximum_gpu_frequency_mhz
- 1173 MHz
- memory
- 128-bit LPDDR5
- memory_bandwidth_gb_s
- 102 GB/s
- memory_gb
- 16 GB
- software_ecosystem
- Jetson platform software and NVIDIA AI/robotics ecosystem
- tensor_cores
- 32 cores
Operations
- Environment
- robots, autonomous machines, unmanned systems, industrial edge devices
- Primary user
- robot OEMs, embedded developers, autonomy engineers, AI engineers
- Role
- AI inference compute, sensor processing, application hosting
- Interaction model
- software-defined embedded module, host carrier-board integration
- Mobility class
- fixed embedded compute module
- Product detail
- https://zlsbkmaixmmnjrgpkcyp.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/robotics_assets/products/korthos-product-candidates-2026-08-22-batch-31/nvidia-jetson-orin-nx-16gb-16x9.jpg, edge_ai_compute_module, robotics_edge_compute_module, 1600, 900, b6871b34d7a379d6edc227131828f776a39a828848851f184eee5e48b59caed4, reviewed_16x9_official_media, Edge AI Computer, robotics_assets, existing_category_first, https://www.nvidia.com/content/nvidiaGDC/us/en_US/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-orin/_j...
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Waymo details custom 5nm ASIC and autonomous-compute partner stack — 2026-08-20
- Foxglove launches agentic robotics-data platform with NVIDIA Cosmos search — 2026-08-18
- LG details NVIDIA-powered Data Factory for physical-AI robotics — 2026-08-18
- LG and NVIDIA expand physical-AI collaboration into humanoid and factory robotics — 2026-08-13
- AEye Apollo lidar validated on NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor — 2026-08-05
- NVIDIA releases Alpamayo 2 Super for commercial autonomous-driving use — 2026-08-04
- Innoviz and top-10 automaker begin InnovizTwo highway-perception programme — 2026-08-04
- NVIDIA adds agent-ready PhysicsNeMo and CUDA-X libraries to Agent Toolkit — 2026-07-26