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NVIDIA IGX Orin Platform Overview#

The NVIDIA IGX Orin Developer Kit is a high-performance, AI platform, featuring industrial grade hardware and enterprise software and support. Purpose built for industrial and medical environments, IGX delivers industry leading performance, security, functional safety, and has a 10 year lifecycle and support. IGX greatly reduces the time and resources needed to develop and deploy AI applications to the edge.

This user guide provides instructions to install and use the NVIDIA IGX Developer Kit.

NVIDIA recommends reading and following each section in this document to set up your NVIDIA IGX Developer Kit.

Note

All occurrences of Developer Kit or DevKit refer to the NVIDIA IGX Developer Kit.

After your development and test cycles are complete, you engage in product development with an OEM. At that time, the OEM provides you with an NVIDIA IGX Board Kit (board kit) for production work.

GPU Configurations#

GPU configuration varies depending on your IGX platform:

  • IGX Orin: You can configure your NVIDIA IGX Orin™ Developer Kit in integrated GPU mode (iGPU mode) or discrete GPU mode (dGPU mode).

    • iGPU mode: Uses only the integrated NVIDIA Ampere GPU on the IGX Orin.

    • dGPU mode: Uses only a supported discrete GPU connected to a PCIe slot.

  • IGX Thor: Both the integrated NVIDIA Blackwell GPU and a supported discrete GPU are available to the user simultaneously. By default, you should connect your display to the integrated GPU’s DisplayPort output.

Note

For IGX Orin, advanced configuration enables you to use the integrated GPU and a discrete GPU simultaneously. For details, see Simultaneous iGPU and dGPU.

The Developer Kit supports the following discrete GPUs depending on the IGX platform:

Note

For IGX Orin, NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada is not supported in the IGX-SW Developer Preview Release and is supported from IGX-SW 1.0 release.

For IGX Thor, IGX-SW 2.0 or later release is required.

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