Hardware
Every major edge silicon platform — neutrally benchmarked. Filter by vendor, form factor, power envelope, year.
NVIDIA Jetson Thor
Blackwell-class humanoid robotics module. The headroom platform for transformer-heavy policies.
- TOPS
- 2070
- Power
- 40–130 W
- Form
- Module
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin
Flagship robotics module — runs full VLA + perception stacks alongside SLAM.
- TOPS
- 275
- Power
- 15–60 W
- Form
- Module
Qualcomm QCS8550
Premium IoT/robotics SoC; same NPU class as Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, certified for 7-year industrial supply.
- TOPS
- 48
- Power
- 7–15 W
- Form
- SoC
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 NPU
Mobile NPU benchmark target — what handheld AR & on-device LLM workloads tune against.
- TOPS
- 45
- Power
- 4–8 W
- Form
- SoC
Hailo-10H
Generative-edge follow-up to the Hailo-8, with native LPDDR5 attach for transformer & VLA workloads.
- TOPS
- 40
- Power
- 2.5–3.5 W
- Form
- M.2
NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano
8 GB Orin SoM with 1024-core Ampere GPU + 32 Tensor Cores. The new robotics Pi 5.
- TOPS
- 40
- Power
- 7–15 W
- Form
- SoM
Apple Neural Engine (M4)
Reference target for on-device foundation-model workloads; benchmarks via Core ML.
- TOPS
- 38
- Power
- 3–8 W
- Form
- SoC
Ambarella CV72
Newer CVflow generation aimed at enterprise inspection cameras with multi-stream 4K.
- TOPS
- 32
- Power
- 3–6 W
- Form
- SoC
Hailo-8
Workhorse 26-TOPS NPU on M.2. The default low-power vision accelerator for 1080p multi-stream perception.
- TOPS
- 26
- Power
- 1.5–2.5 W
- Form
- M.2
Raspberry Pi 5 + Hailo HAT
Pi 5 carrier with the Hailo-8L HAT. The hobbyist-to-prod path: $120 of silicon doing real perception.
- TOPS
- 26
- Power
- 5–8 W
- Form
- HAT
AMD Versal AI Edge VE2302
FPGA-fabric + AI Engine. Where bespoke pipelines (radar, lidar fusion) live.
- TOPS
- 22
- Power
- 6–12 W
- Form
- SoC
Ambarella CV5
ISP + CVflow NPU; the silicon inside most mid-range smart cameras and dashcams.
- TOPS
- 16
- Power
- 2–5 W
- Form
- SoC
Qualcomm QCS6490
Mid-range edge SoC pairing Kryo CPUs with the Hexagon NPU; common in industrial cameras and gateways.
- TOPS
- 12
- Power
- 5–9 W
- Form
- SoC
Rockchip RK3588
Cost-leader octa-core SoC with 6 TOPS NPU; powers an exploding tier of Asia-OEM SBCs.
- TOPS
- 6
- Power
- 5–10 W
- Form
- SoC
MediaTek Genio 700
Mid-tier IoT SoC, popular in retail kiosks and Asian commercial appliances.
- TOPS
- 4
- Power
- 3–6 W
- Form
- SoC
Google Coral Edge TPU
INT8-only 4 TOPS coprocessor. The classic 'add ML to a Pi' part — still ubiquitous.
- TOPS
- 4
- Power
- 0.5–2 W
- Form
- USB
Intel Movidius Myriad X
Legacy VPU still shipping in OEM smart cameras; long industrial tail.
- TOPS
- 4
- Power
- 1–2.5 W
- Form
- SoC