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In raw performance, probably. The benefit these have (at least purportedly) is they're very energy efficient, consuming little power (and generating little heat) for comparatively large throughput.

So I can imagine someone wanting a few of these on a desk, running inference on some models or something, maybe as a small back-end for a hobby project. It may still be more power efficient to just use regular GPUs, but I suspect these win out because of the tight coupling between "CUDA cores" and the CPU.

Now, is that worth spending a bunch (many hundreds) of dollars on a carrier board and these Jetson modules? For me, no, but I at least see why it may appeal to some people.




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