Calculate the TPS of the Jetson TX2 on local AI models
Every model in our catalogue assessed against this card at the context length and minimum quality you choose. Speed is an estimate for a single request, calculated from this card's memory bandwidth and the size of each model once compressed.
Calculated for this card
679 models in our catalogue altogether
Largest model it holds
Baichuan 1-13B
13.3B · Q3_K_M · 4.4 tok/s
Fastest model
Gemma 3 QAT 1B
21.5 tok/s · 1B
Which AI models can run on a Jetson TX2?
Set the inputs, read the answer
More context means more memory for the conversation cache. Speed is for a fresh conversation and does not change with this setting.
Hides models that would only fit by being compressed below this point.
337 models match
Calculating| Quantisation | Fit | ||||||
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21.5
tok/s
8–43 · low confidence |
Gemma 3 1B | 1B | Mar 2025 | 1.8 GB | 33k tokens | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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21.5
tok/s
8–43 · low confidence |
Gemma 3 QAT 1B | 1B | Apr 2025 | 1.8 GB | 33k tokens | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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21.5
tok/s
8–43 · low confidence |
HGRN 1B (WT 103) ≈ | 1B | Nov 2023 | 1.8 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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21.5
tok/s
8–43 · low confidence |
LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B ≈ | 1B | Dec 2024 | 1.8 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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21.5
tok/s
8–43 · low confidence |
OLMo-1B ≈ | 1B | Feb 2024 | 1.8 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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21.5
tok/s
8–43 · low confidence |
Pythia-1b ≈ | 1B | Apr 2023 | 1.8 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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19.9
tok/s
7–40 · low confidence |
OpenELM-1.1B ≈ | 1.1B | May 2024 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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19.5
tok/s
7–39 · low confidence |
DeciCoder-1B ≈ | 1.1B | Aug 2023 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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19.5
tok/s
7–39 · low confidence |
SantaCoder ≈ | 1.1B | Jan 2023 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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19.5
tok/s
7–39 · low confidence |
TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) ≈ | 1.1B | Oct 2023 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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19.5
tok/s
7–39 · low confidence |
TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) ≈ | 1.1B | Oct 2023 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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17.9
tok/s
6–36 · low confidence |
EXAONE 4.0 (1.2B) ≈ | 1.2B | Jul 2025 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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17.9
tok/s
6–36 · low confidence |
MinerU2.5 ≈ | 1.2B | Sep 2025 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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17.9
tok/s
6–36 · low confidence |
Pleias 1.0 1.2B ≈ | 1.2B | Dec 2024 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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17.9
tok/s
6–36 · low confidence |
Pleias-RAG-1B ≈ | 1.2B | Apr 2025 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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17.5
tok/s
6–35 · low confidence |
Llama 3.2 1B | 1.2B | Sep 2024 | 2.2 GB | 131k tokens | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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17.2
tok/s
6–34 · low confidence |
MiniCPM-1.2B ≈ | 1.2B | Jun 2024 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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16.5
tok/s
6–33 · low confidence |
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B ≈ | 1.3B | Jan 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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16.5
tok/s
6–33 · low confidence |
DeepSeek-VL-1.3B ≈ | 1.3B | Mar 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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16.5
tok/s
6–33 · low confidence |
DigiRL ≈ | 1.3B | Jun 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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16.5
tok/s
6–33 · low confidence |
GLA Transformer 1.3B ≈ | 1.3B | Aug 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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16.5
tok/s
6–33 · low confidence |
Janus 1.3B ≈ | 1.3B | Oct 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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16.5
tok/s
6–33 · low confidence |
Kosmos-2.5 ≈ | 1.3B | Aug 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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16.5
tok/s
6–33 · low confidence |
Otter ≈ | 1.3B | May 2023 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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16.5
tok/s
6–33 · low confidence |
Phi-1 ≈ | 1.3B | Oct 2023 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
Speeds are estimates for a single request — one conversation at a time — calculated from memory bandwidth, model size and quantisation. Real throughput varies with the inference runtime and its version. Figures published by hardware vendors measure many simultaneous requests and are much higher.
On record
Jetson TX2 full specification
Everything on record for this board, ordered by how much it bears on running a language model rather than by how a spec sheet would list it. Memory comes first because it decides the outcome; the rest is context.
Memory
The two specifications that decide what this card can run and how quickly. Capacity sets which models fit; bandwidth sets how many tokens per second they produce once they do.
- Memory size
- 8 GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 60 GB/s
- Memory type
- LPDDR4
- Memory bus width
- 128 bit
- Memory clock
- 1.87 GHz
The chip
Which processor is on the board and how it was manufactured. A smaller process size generally means more performance for the same power.
- Graphics processor
- GP10B
- Architecture
- Pascal
- Generation
- Tegra(Pascal)
- Foundry
- TSMC
- Process size
- 16 nm
- Released
- 1 January 2016
Clock speeds
How fast the processor runs. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: generating text is limited by memory bandwidth, so a higher clock barely moves the result.
- Base clock
- 1.3 GHz
- Boost clock
- 1.3 GHz
Processing units
What the chip contains. These drive graphics performance and matter mainly for processing a long prompt rather than for producing the answer.
- Shading units
- 256
- Texture mapping units
- 16
- Render output units
- 16
- Streaming multiprocessors
- 2
- L1 cache
- 48 KB
- L2 cache
- 0.5 MB
Theoretical performance
Peak arithmetic rates published for the board. These are ceilings that no real workload reaches, and generating text reaches a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory rather than arithmetic.
- Half precision (FP16)
- 1.3 TFLOPS
- Single precision (FP32)
- 665.6 GFLOPS
- Double precision (FP64)
- 20.8 GFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 21 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 21 GTexel/s
The board
What it takes to physically install and power the card — the practical constraints that decide whether it fits the machine you already own.
- Power draw (TDP)
- 15 W
- Bus interface
- PCIe 2.0 x4
- Slot width
- IGP
- Dimensions
- 87 mm
Software support
Which graphics and compute interfaces the card supports. CUDA compute capability is the one that bears on inference: below 7.0 there are no tensor cores, and modern inference software falls back to slower code paths.
- CUDA compute capability
- 6.2
- DirectX
- 12.1
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- Vulkan
- 1.2
- OpenCL
- 1.2
- Shader model
- 6.0
Listings
Where to buy a Jetson TX2
No vendor is currently listing this card. Listings come from vendors who publish them here directly — browse the vendor directory to see who is selling what.
What the numbers mean
Why memory is the number that matters here
Memory
8 GB
Bandwidth
60 GB/s
Largest model
Baichuan 1-13B
At 8 GB of LPDDR4 the Jetson TX2 is limited to the smaller end of the catalogue. About 7.2 GB is actually available to a runtime, and a model has to fit entirely inside it before generating anything at all.
At 60 GB/s across a 128-bit bus, bandwidth is this card's real constraint. Every token requires reading the entire model out of memory, so a large model will feel slow here even when it fits.
That comes from a 1.87 GHz memory clock across the bus width above. Widening the bus and raising the clock are the two levers a manufacturer has, which is why a card with unremarkable cores can still generate quickly.
The practical ceiling is Baichuan 1-13B at 13.3B, held at Q3_K_M and running at roughly 4.4 tokens per second.
The chip and how it was built
The Jetson TX2 is built on the GP10B graphics processor, using NVIDIA's Pascal architecture, as part of the Tegra(Pascal) generation.
The chip is manufactured by TSMC, on a 16 nm process. A smaller process generally means more performance for the same power, though for language models it matters far less than the memory subsystem.
It was released in January 2016, roughly 10 years ago. Inference software support tends to follow hardware by a year or two, so a card of this age generally has mature, well-optimised code paths available to it.
Compute throughput, and why it matters less than it looks
FP16
1.3 TFLOPS
FP64
20.8 GFLOPS
On paper the Jetson TX2 reaches 1.3 TFLOPS at half precision and 665.6 GFLOPS at single precision. These are peak figures no real workload sustains, and generating text reaches only a small fraction of them — decoding is limited by memory rather than arithmetic, which is why a card can look enormously powerful here and still produce tokens at an ordinary rate.
Double-precision throughput is 20.8 GFLOPS. It has no bearing on running a language model — no inference runtime uses it — but it separates datacentre parts from consumer ones, since the latter deliberately restrict it.
Clocks run from 1.3 GHz at base to 1.3 GHz boosted. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: raising the clock speeds up the arithmetic, and the arithmetic is not what generation is waiting on.
Cache and processing units
The Jetson TX2 has 48 KB of L1 cache, backed by 0.5 MB of L2. Cache absorbs a share of the memory traffic that would otherwise hit the main bus, which is the one place on this page where a number other than bandwidth quietly affects generation speed — a large L2 lets more of the working set stay close to the cores.
There are 256 shading units, 16 texture mapping units, and 16 render output units. These drive graphics workloads and contribute to prompt processing, but they sit idle for much of the time a model spends generating a reply.
Power, size and installation
Power draw
15 W
The Jetson TX2 is rated at 15 W. Running a language model keeps a card busy in bursts rather than continuously — it draws hard while generating and idles between requests — so sustained draw over a working day is usually well below the rated figure.
The board occupies a igp, measuring 87 mm long. Worth checking against the case and power supply already in the machine, since the largest cards need considerably more of both than a typical desktop provides.
It connects over PCIe 2.0 x4. The interface governs how quickly a model is loaded from disk into the card, not how fast it runs once there, so a narrower link costs a few seconds at startup and nothing thereafter.
The extremes
The largest AI models that run on a Jetson TX2
The biggest open-weight models that fit on this card, newest first. Each is shown at the best compression the card can hold.
The fastest AI models on a Jetson TX2
Where this card produces tokens quickest. Smaller models dominate here, because generating each token means reading the whole model out of memory once.
Step by step
How to work out the tokens per second of a Jetson TX2
You do not have to calculate anything by hand — the gputps.com calculator on this page has already worked it out for every model this card can hold. Reading off the answer takes six steps.
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Find the model in the table
All 337 models the Jetson TX2 handles are already listed. The search box takes a name or a size such as 27b, which matches on parameter count.
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Set the context length you will actually use
Longer conversations cost memory on top of the weights. With 8 GB to work in, that is frequently the difference between a model fitting and not.
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Pin the comparison to one quality level
Each model is shown at the best compression this card can hold. A minimum quality hides the ones that only fit by being squeezed further than you would accept.
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Look at the range, not just the number
Speeds come with error bars for a reason. The best case here is 21.5 tok/s on Gemma 3 QAT 1B, and which inference software you use moves that by thirty to fifty per cent.
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Read the fit verdict last
A tight fit runs but leaves no room to raise the context later; comfortable has headroom. The memory column shows what each model needs against the 8 GB available.
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Open the model to compare cards
Every model name in the table links to its own page, which runs the same calculation across every card we hold. That is where you see whether the Jetson TX2 is the right buy for it or merely a card that fits.
Answers
Jetson TX2 — common questions
Does the Jetson TX2 support CUDA?
Yes. The Jetson TX2 reports CUDA compute capability 6.2, which predates tensor cores. Capability 7.0 and above has tensor cores, which modern inference software uses; below that it falls back to slower code paths for quantised models.
What bus interface does the Jetson TX2 use?
It uses PCIe 2.0 x4. This governs how fast a model is loaded onto the card rather than how fast it runs once loaded, so it costs a few seconds at startup and nothing during generation.
Is the Jetson TX2 good for running local AI models?
Its memory limits it to smaller models though its bandwidth means generation will feel slow on larger models. In total it runs 337 of the models we track. Whether that is enough depends entirely on which model you want — the table above answers that directly.
Can a Jetson TX2 run a model that does not fit in its memory?
Only partly. Layers beyond the 8 GB sit in system memory and run at a fraction of the speed, so a mostly-offloaded model is rarely worth using. Every figure here assumes it is fully resident on the card.
Would two Jetson TX2 cards be twice as fast?
No. A second Jetson TX2 doubles the memory to 16 GB, which lets you hold models neither could hold alone, but generation does not split that way. These figures describe one card.
What AI models can a Jetson TX2 run?
337 of the 679 open-weight language models we track fit on a Jetson TX2 and can be run locally on it. The table on this page lists every one, with the memory it needs, the quantisation it runs at and an estimated generation speed.
What is the largest AI model a Jetson TX2 can run?
The largest model in our catalogue that fits on a Jetson TX2 is Baichuan 1-13B at 13.3B parameters, compressed to Q3_K_M. It generates roughly 4.4 tokens per second and needs about 7.2 GB of the card's memory.
How many tokens per second does a Jetson TX2 produce?
It depends on the model. On a Jetson TX2 the fastest model we track is Gemma 3 QAT 1B at about 21.5 tokens per second, while larger models run proportionally slower because each token requires reading the whole model out of memory once. Speeds are estimates for a single conversation at a time.
Can a Jetson TX2 run a 7B model?
Yes. For example a Jetson TX2 runs MetaMath 7B (LLaMa finetune) at Q4_K_M, using about 6.5 GB of memory and generating around 7.1 tokens per second.
Can a Jetson TX2 run a 13B model?
Yes. For example a Jetson TX2 runs Gemma 4 12B at Q3_K_M, using about 6.5 GB of memory and generating around 4.9 tokens per second.
How much memory does a Jetson TX2 have?
A Jetson TX2 has 8 GB of LPDDR4 memory. Around a tenth of that is reserved by the inference runtime and the driver, leaving roughly 7.2 GB available for a model and its conversation.
What is the memory bandwidth of a Jetson TX2?
The Jetson TX2 has 60 GB/s of memory bandwidth, across a 128-bit memory bus. This is the single best predictor of how fast it generates text, because producing each token means reading the entire model out of memory once.
What type of memory does a Jetson TX2 use?
It uses LPDDR4 clocked at 1.87 GHz. HBM types are found on datacentre accelerators and carry far more bandwidth than the GDDR used on desktop cards, which is why they generate tokens considerably faster at the same capacity.
Who makes the Jetson TX2?
The Jetson TX2 is a NVIDIA product, with the chip manufactured by TSMC, on a 16 nm process.
When was the Jetson TX2 released?
The Jetson TX2 was released in January 2016.
How much power does a Jetson TX2 use?
The Jetson TX2 has a rated board power of 15 W. Generating text draws hard in bursts and idles between requests, so average consumption over a working session is normally well below the rated figure.
How much cache does a Jetson TX2 have?
The Jetson TX2 has 48 KB of L1 cache, and 0.5 MB of L2 cache. Cache absorbs part of the memory traffic that would otherwise reach the main bus, so a larger L2 gives a modest lift to generation speed beyond what bandwidth alone predicts.
What are the TFLOPS of a Jetson TX2?
The Jetson TX2 is rated at 1.3 TFLOPS at half precision and 665.6 GFLOPS at single precision. These are peak arithmetic ceilings rather than achievable rates, and text generation reaches only a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory bandwidth instead.
The other direction
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