NVIDIA Tells Resellers to Open Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit Orders at $3,499

NVIDIA's ultra-high-performance Jetson Thor edge artificial intelligence (edge AI) machine, in the form of the Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit, is just around the corner — with the company instructing resellers to begin taking orders at $3,499.

"NVIDIA Jetson Thor series modules give you the ultimate platform for physical AI and robotics, delivering up to 2,070 FP4 TFLOPS [Tera-Floating Point Operations Per Second] of AI compute and 128GB of memory with power configurable between 40W and 130W," NVIDIA says of the latest entries in its Jetson family of embedded AI systems. "They deliver over 7.5x higher AI compute than NVIDIA AGX Orin, with 3.5x better energy efficiency."

NVIDIA revealed the Jetson Thor range back in March last year, alongside a foundation model for humanoid robotics dubbed Project GR00T. Built around the company's latest Blackwell graphics architecture and a custom transformer engine, the Jetson Thor was said to deliver up to 800 TFLOPS of compute — a figure that, for the variant being sold to developers, has now been boosted to 2,070 TFLOPS providing you're happy to drop from FP8 to FP4 sparse precision.

At the time, however, there was one thing NVIDIA wasn't sharing: the price. The company is now ready to reveal that vital bit of information, instructing resellers to begin taking orders at a $3,499 retail price. For this, buyer gets a top-end Jetson T5000-based machine with a 2,560 CUDA-core 96 Tensor-core Blackwell GPU running at up to 1.57GHz, a 14-core Arm Neoverse-V3AE processor running at up to 2.6GHz, a PVA v3 vision accelerator, and 128GB of LPDDR5X memory on a 256-bit bus delivering a claimed 273GB/s of bandwidth. Storage is handled by a bundled 1TB NVMe solid-state drive pre-installed in the custom-built housing.

Connectivity includes a five-gigabit-Ethernet port plus a QSFP28 connector supporting up to four 25-gigabit connections, two USB 3.2 Gen. 2 Type-A and two USB 3.1 Type-C ports, HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.4a video outputs, M.2 M-key and E-key slots carrying four and one PCI Express Gen. 5 lanes respectively with the former taken up by the bundled SSD, CAN bus, a six-pin "automation header," JTAG debug connector, an audio panel header, and a 12V pulse-width modulated (PWM) connector for an active cooling fan. Cameras, meanwhile, are to be connected via the QSFP slot — though USB cameras are also supported.

More information is available on the NVIDIA product page, where links are provided to authorized resellers.