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  • SarahKerrigan - Tuesday, August 21, 2018 - link

    Impressive. In a 30-minute presentation, they managed to say almost nothing.

    I was there for their Pascal HC presentation in 2016, which hit a similar milestone.
  • MadManMark - Tuesday, August 21, 2018 - link

    What specifically were you wanting to know that you did not see?
  • abufrejoval - Friday, August 24, 2018 - link

    So how many $$$ would this add to a car's BoM?
    I guess we won't be seeing these in vacuum robots?
    Any figure on TDP?
  • frenchy_2001 - Friday, August 24, 2018 - link

    You can pre-order their Jetson Xavier for $2500 (half if you are a registered dev)
    https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/e...

    Those advertise 30W power.

    A drive pegasus is 2x Xavier + 2x GPUs, so count ~300W and $5k+.
  • Santoval - Saturday, August 25, 2018 - link

    Drive PX Pegasus actually has a 500W TDP, a frankly insane power draw for any car battery. The surplus power draw is due to the 2 "post-Volta GPUs", presumably based on Turing (GT102 I guess), which are *very* big and power hungry. Due to the Pegasus' TDP being unsuitable for anything but self-driving trucks with huge battery packs, Nvidia appears to target it largely at self-driving development and testing rather than commercial deployment.

    That will the job of "Pegasus 2" (or however it might be called) which will be based around Orrin, the 7nm fabbed successor of Xavier. Pegasus' successor has a performance target equal to Pegasus but at roughly half the TDP, i.e. at ~250W TDP. Still double that of Tesla's Drive PX 2 unit, but much more palatable.

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