AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) vs NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB

FPGA / Versal coverage note: 1,243 rows come from the AMD Vitis AI 3.0/3.5 Model Zoo tables; 733 (59%) are image classification. Detection, segmentation and other workloads are thinner, and there is no LLM or speech data for these boards. All are vendor-published (grade D). FPGA / Versal overview.

AMDSOM starter kit (adaptive SoC)No licensed photo yet

NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX module seated on a carrier motherboard, close-up at Computex 2025 — NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX module on a carrier board. Photo: 4300streetcar, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB is faster in all 3 like-for-like comparisons (largest gap: image classification, 12.33×).

	AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM)	NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB
Best object detection	276 FPS D Older data (2023)	287 FPS B 2026-10-13 (page last edited)
Power	7.50 W spec	n/a
Perf / W	36.76 FPS/W spec	n/a
Price	n/a	n/a
Workloads with data	4 of 7	4 of 7

Best published object detection result per platform (may be from different like-for-like groups — see data). n/a = not published; never estimated.

Show data — all workloads, sources and like-for-like groups

object detection

✓ Like-for-like: model-size class nano (YOLO-n), batch 1. Model, precision and stack may still differ.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB	287 FPS inference_time · b=1	YOLO26n INT8 · Ultralytics TensorRT · nano (YOLO-n)	B	unknown power n/a no power published	Ultralytics documentation (benchmark table) 2026-10-13 (page last edited)
AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM)	33.60 FPS throughput (DPU only) · b=1	YOLOv8n-Ghost (Hard-Swish, xView3-SAR) INT8 (Vitis AI quantizer, power-of-two) · Vitis AI 3.5 VART, DPU inference only, 2 threads · nano (YOLO-n)	C	7.50 W spec platform spec envelope (not measured with this result)	arXiv 2507.04842v2 (SAR vessel detection on Kria KV260), Table 6 2025-11-17 (published)

✓ Like-for-like: model-size class mid-size CNN, batch unknown (size or batch not stated by source — unverified). Model, precision and stack may still differ.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB	66.50 FPS throughput_offline · b=unknown	MLPerf Retinanet INT8/FP16 (MLPerf closed) · TensorRT (MLPerf Inference, older round) · mid-size CNN	D	unknown power n/a no power published	NVIDIA Jetson Benchmarks (MLPerf v3.1 results table) Older data (2023)
AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM)	5.41 FPS E2E throughput, multi thread · b=unknown	tf_ssdresnet50v1_fpn_coco_640_640_178.4G INT8 · Vitis AI 3.0 (VART) · mid-size CNN	D	7.50 W spec reported in result source — spec	Vitis AI 3.0 Model Zoo performance table Older data (2023)

instance segmentation

◌

No published instance segmentation results for AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) or NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

pose estimation

Only AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) has published pose estimation results.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM)	352 FPS E2E throughput, multi thread · b=unknown	pt_movenet_coco_192_192_0.5G INT8 · Vitis AI 3.0 (VART) · mobile-class CNN	D	7.50 W spec reported in result source — spec	Vitis AI 3.0 Model Zoo performance table Older data (2023)

NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB:

◌

No published pose estimation results for NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB or AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

image classification

✓ Like-for-like: model-size class mid-size CNN, batch unknown (size or batch not stated by source — unverified). Model, precision and stack may still differ.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB	2641 FPS throughput_offline · b=unknown	MLPerf ResNet INT8/FP16 (MLPerf closed) · TensorRT (MLPerf Inference, older round) · mid-size CNN	D	unknown power n/a no power published	NVIDIA Jetson Benchmarks (MLPerf v3.1 results table) Older data (2023)
AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM)	214 FPS E2E throughput, multi thread · b=unknown	pt_OFA-resnet50_imagenet_160_160_0.88_1.8G INT8 · Vitis AI 3.0 (VART) · mid-size CNN	D	7.50 W spec reported in result source — spec	Vitis AI 3.0 Model Zoo performance table Older data (2023)

semantic segmentation

Only AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) has published semantic segmentation results.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM)	32.90 FPS E2E throughput, multi thread · b=unknown	pt_SemanticFPN-mobilenetv2_cityscapes_512_1024_10G INT8 · Vitis AI 3.0 (VART) · mobile-class CNN	D	7.50 W spec reported in result source — spec	Vitis AI 3.0 Model Zoo performance table Older data (2023)

NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB:

◌

No published semantic segmentation results for NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB or AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

speech-to-text

Only NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB has published speech-to-text results.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB	432 FPS throughput_offline · b=unknown	MLPerf RNN-T INT8/FP16 (MLPerf closed) · TensorRT (MLPerf Inference, older round) · RNN-T	D	unknown power n/a no power published	NVIDIA Jetson Benchmarks (MLPerf v3.1 results table) Older data (2023)

AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM):

◌

No published speech-to-text results for AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) or NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

LLM generation

Only NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB has published LLM generation results.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB	11.00 tok/s generation_throughput · b=1	Nemotron Nano 9B V2 W4A16 · vLLM · LLM 5–14B	C	unknown power n/a no power published	NVIDIA Jetson AI Lab benchmarks (benchmarks.json) 2026-07-21 (page last edited)

AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM):

◌

No published LLM generation results for AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) or NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

How to read these numbers

Every number is labelled. Confidence: A MLPerf closed, audited · B documented third-party method · C community / review · D vendor-published, not independently verified · E estimate. Power basis: measured with the result · spec vendor spec/envelope · power n/a not published.

Machine-readable: /find.json (see llms.txt); full tables are in “Show data”. Confidence grades: A audited MLPerf closed · B documented third-party · C community · D vendor-published · E estimate. Unknown values are shown as unknown, never estimated. Generated 2026-10-16 from public sources.