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Anecdotally, a friend has been using TX2s and got a Xavier to test out. He was blown away by the performance delta. It’s got an octocore ARM for a CPU, and while I don’t recall what the TX2 has... that’s a lot of CPU cores to work with.

I’ve got a Xavier sitting on my desk too, but haven’t played with it much. Running OpenCV on it and doing some light live video processing was really smooth.

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For games you usually want smaller number of high performant cores than many lesser performant. Haven't done much game programming in recent years, but I still remmember the terror of programming PS3 Cell CPU.

Were the CPU cores of Cell (PPEs) hard to program? I had the impression that the difficulty of the Cell was in the need to manage the 8 SPEs, not in writing software for the Power4 core.

The 8 core Carmel CPU in Xavier is not like the SPEs in Cell.

It was hard to utilise all those cores. I am sure game architectures evolved during the years, but back then we didn't know how to split the code to optimally utilise all available resources.

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