
Hardware · NVIDIA
What AI models can the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32GB (32 GB) run?
- Unified memory
- 32.0 GB
- Usable for models
- 28.8 GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 205 GB/s
- Runs models on
- GPU (CUDA)
- Released
- 2022
Models run on the GPU (CUDA) here, sharing the board’s memory with the system. We plan around 28.8 GB of the 32.0 GB (what Linux leaves free for a model). Ampere GPU with 1,792 CUDA cores and 56 Tensor Cores, plus two NVDLA v2 engines: up to 200 TOPS (INT8, sparse).
More about this hardware
| Maker | NVIDIA |
|---|---|
| Type | Single-board computer or edge AI board |
| GPU share of memory | 90% (what the GPU can typically be given for a model) |
| Chip | NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32GB |
| AI accelerator | Ampere GPU with 1,792 CUDA cores and 56 Tensor Cores, plus two NVDLA v2 engines: up to 200 TOPS (INT8, sparse). |
| Boards with this chip | Jetson AGX Orin 32GB module |
| Memory type | 32 GB LPDDR5, 256-bit |
| Bandwidth figure | 204.8 GB/s, as the maker states it |
| Note | Estimate ~10% OS reserve. |
| Specifications | nvidia.com |
Apps that run models well on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32GB (32 GB)
Linux on ARM boards
Best LLMs for the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32GB (32 GB)
| Quality | Model | Quant | Memory | Speed | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91Excellent quality (A+) · 91 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 96/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | Gemma 4 26B-A4B | Q6_K | 24.5 GB | 39.4 tok/s | Runs great |
| 90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 94/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B | Q5_K_M | 28.6 GB | 55.7 tok/s | Runs welltight fit |
| 90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 94/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B | Q5_K_M | 28.1 GB | 55.7 tok/s | Runs welltight fit |
| 90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 94/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | Qwen3.5 35B-A3B | Q5_K_M | 28.6 GB | 55.7 tok/s | Runs welltight fit |
| 89Excellent quality (A+) · 89 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 94/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | Nex N2 Mini (35B-A3B) | Q5_K_M | 28.0 GB | 55.7 tok/s | Runs welltight fit |
| 86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 93/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | KAT-Coder V2.5 Dev (35B-A3B) | Q4_K_M | 24.2 GB | 65.4 tok/s | Runs great |
| 88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 93/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | Sage-A1.5 35B-A3B | Q5_K_M | 28.6 GB | 55.7 tok/s | Runs welltight fit |
| 85Excellent quality (A+) · 85 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 93/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | Raon-1 mini Preview (30B-A4B) | Q5_K_M | 23.4 GB | 41.3 tok/s | Runs great |
| 87Excellent quality (A+) · 87 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 93/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B | Q5_K_M | 28.6 GB | 55.7 tok/s | Runs welltight fit |
| 86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | Apodex 1.1 Mini (35B-A3B) | Q5_K_M | 28.6 GB | 55.7 tok/s | Runs welltight fit |
| 86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | Ornith 1.0 35B-A3B | Q5_K_M | 28.6 GB | 55.7 tok/s | Runs welltight fit |
| 83Great quality (A) · 83 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | GLM-4.7 Flash (30B-A3B) | Q4_K_M | 22.4 GB | 65.4 tok/s | Runs great |
Best Image models for the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32GB (32 GB)
| Quality | Model | Quant | Memory | Speed | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 82Great quality (A) · 82 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | FLUX.2 [klein] 9B | FP8 | 19.9 GB | 18 s | Runs well |
| 90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | Krea 2 Turbo | FP8 | 20.2 GB | 43 s | Slow |
| 91Excellent quality (A+) · 91 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | FLUX 3 Image Klein | FP16 | 22.4 GB | 64 s | Slow |
| 84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | Z-Image Turbo | FP16 | 22.7 GB | 28 s | Runs well |
| 93Excellent quality (A+) · 93 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 82/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | Fibo 2.0 Dev | FP16 | 27.7 GB | 4.2 min | Very slowtight fit |
| 76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 82/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | FLUX.2 [klein] 4B | FP8 | 10.2 GB | 10 s | Runs great |
Best Video models for the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32GB (32 GB)
| Quality | Model | Quant | Memory | Speed | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83Great quality (A) · 83 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | Bernini-R A14B (video generation + editing) | FP8 | 26.0 GB | 2.0 h | Very slowtight fit |
| 81Great quality (A) · 81 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | LTX-2.5 (22B, video + audio) | Q4 GGUF | 26.8 GB | 21.4 min | Slowtight fit · encoder unloaded after use |
| 74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 74/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | HY-OmniWeaving (8.3B, unified video) | FP8 | 24.6 GB | 89.0 min | Very slowtight fit |
| 70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 73/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | Wan 2.2 S2V 14B (speech to video) | Q4 GGUF | 21.6 GB | 3.7 h | Very slow |
| 73Great quality (A) · 73 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | Wan 2.1 I2V 14B 480P | Q8 GGUF | 27.2 GB | 3.2 h | Very slowtight fit |
Best Decision models for the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32GB (32 GB)
| Quality | Model | Quant | Memory | Speed | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | Jina Reranker v3.5 | Q8_0 | 3.8 GB | 138 ms | Runs well |
| 80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | GLiNER2.5 Decide | F16 | 1.7 GB | 70 ms | Runs great |
| 80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | FRIDA-Decisions | Q8_0 | 1.7 GB | 100 ms | Runs great |
| 84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | Jina Reranker v3 | Q8_0 | 3.8 GB | 138 ms | Runs well |
| 76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | Llama Prompt Guard 2 86M | F16 | 1.2 GB | 79 ms | Runs great |
| 80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | Qwen3 Reranker 0.6B | Q8_0 | 3.8 GB | 138 ms | Runs well |
| 74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | GLiClass ModernBERT Large v3 | F16 | 1.5 GB | 58 ms | Runs great |
| 76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. | mxbai-rerank-base v2 | Q8_0 | 3.4 GB | 113 ms | Runs great |
Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.