Everything You Need To Know About The NVIDIA Jetson TX1 Performance

As the last of the historical comparisons, I was curious to see how the Jetson TX1 with its four Cortex-A57 cores compared to the Calxeda ECX-1000 Highbank nodes... While Calxeda is no more, several years ago they were one of the most exciting companies in the 32-bit ARM server space. As there's still some comparable results I have from when I was doing benchmarks at Calxeda's offices, I decided to see how the JTX1 compares CPU-wise to the Calxeda Highbank Nodes as just more metrics for how ARM has been advancing in the past few years. Besides the Calxeda results is also the Intel Atom D525, which was popular at the time of Calxeda.

The Tegra X1 SoC certainly blows past the popular 32-bit ARM servers of the time...

The Atom D525 was launched five years ago by Intel as a dual-core part with Hyper Threading. This dual-core + HT CPU had a 1.8GHz clock frequency and 13 Watt TDP. Five years later, the Tegra X1 is multiple times faster while the entire Jetson TX1 development board is consuming just around 10 Watts.