Jetson Nano Developer Kit
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I (foolishly?) hoped I could run a low-param version of GPT-2, but even the smaller models were too large to run on this small GPU. So be aware if you're interested in this developer kit that it won't be able to run complex models, especially if you're getting the new 2GB version. Anything like image recognition/classification would work just fine though.
The alternative carrier boards all cost far too much, many more than the Nano itself which violates the first law of carrier boards [0]. Only the OEM carrier board is priced reasonably.
[0] A grocery bag should never cost more than the things that fit in it; a phone case should never cost more than its phone; a camera bag should never cost more than a camera; likewise, a carrier board should never cost more than what it carries.
For 1000 boards, from a distributor you're paying 1000 * $99 = $99000 and you are done with the order in 2 minutes.
To go through the partner program, hiring someone to have coffee and meetings and phone calls with NVIDIA for 6 months = $50000
Will going through the partner programs save you more than $50000?
Or can NVIDIA provide a pushbutton NLP bot that navigates their partner program for you and deals with all the necessary phone calls such that 1000 Nanos arrive at your doorstep for less than $99000?
Industrial and industrial IoT is one of the use case for these kind of boards. These machines are not produced in high quantities so finding existing modules saves a tons of R&D budget.
Almost anything for industrial use cost you a leg and then some. If you want to experiment with CV at home I would take a look at that high quality camera module from RPi.
Aside from being a third party module, they do quite well with low light situations -compared to conventional Raspberry Pi camera modules.
This thing is going to crush it for my MMO, with the raspberry 4 I can render 100 characters at 60 FPS, I'm really curious what this thing will perform like!