Nvidia xavier, new soc with volta graphics

At its European conference on graphics technology (GTC) Nvidia has announced Xavier, a new superchip for artificial intelligence for the autonomous driving systems of the future.

Nvidia Xavier: features of the new Volta-based superchip

Nvidia Xavier is a new processor consisting of a total of eight ARM64 cores customized by Nvidia to improve its performance and accompanied by an impressive 512 CUDA Cores based on the Volta graphics architecture that will be released during 2017. Xavier adds a total of 7, 000 million of transistors and is manufactured in-process at 16nm TSMC to deliver impressive energy efficiency.

Xavier's efficiency allows it to have a 33% higher performance than the previous Drive PX 2 board that uses the Pascal graphics architecture, in case you think it is not enough, it achieves a power consumption of only 20W compared to the 80W it consumes. Drive PX 2. Thanks to its impressive performance, Nvidia Xavier is capable of performing a total of 20, 000 million calculations per second, so it will be able to take autonomous driving systems to a new level with greatly increased capacity for data and image processing. collected. Xavier is also capable of decoding HDR video at 8K resolution and 60 FPS speed.

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With this it is quite clear that Nvidia is going to bet heavily with Volta, its new graphic architecture to succeed Pascal and that will be characterized by offering a great leap forward in energy efficiency and performance without the need to change the manufacturing node, something very similar to Kepler's move to Maxwell. Nvidia is expecting more data on Volta at CES 2017.

Source: techpowerup