AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 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.

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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.

No like-for-like comparison yet: both have published results, but model size or batch differ. Treat the numbers below as indicative only.

	AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385	NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB
Best object detection	93.50 FPS D 2026-09-24 (published)	287 FPS B 2026-10-13 (page last edited)
Power	n/a	n/a
Perf / W	n/a	n/a
Price	$15995 list	n/a
Workloads with data	2 of 7	4 of 7

Best published object detection result per platform. n/a = not published; never estimated.

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object detection

⚠ MIXED COMPARISON — not like-for-like. Baseline nano (YOLO-n) at batch 1. Differs: model-size class medium (YOLO-m) vs nano (YOLO-n).

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 Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 MIXED: model-size class medium (YOLO-m) vs nano (YOLO-n)	93.50 FPS throughput · b=1	yolov8m VINT8 with BF16 tail (Quark) · Vitis AI 6.3 VART ml_vart --benchmark --runs 100 · medium (YOLO-m)	D	unknown power n/a no power published	AMD Vitis AI 6.3 VEK385 YOLOv8m tutorial 2026-09-24 (published)

No shared like-for-like group exists for this pair.

instance segmentation

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No published instance segmentation results for AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 or NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB yet.
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pose estimation

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No published pose estimation results for AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 or NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB yet.
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image classification

⚠ MIXED COMPARISON — not like-for-like. Baseline mid-size CNN at batch 1. Differs: batch unknown vs 1.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385	265 FPS throughput · b=1	resnet50-v1-12 (ONNX) INT8 (Quark) · Vitis AI 6.3 ONNX Runtime Vitis AI EP (evaluate.py, Python loop) · mid-size CNN	D	unknown power n/a no power published	AMD Vitis AI 6.3 VEK385 ResNet50 Quark tutorial 2026-09-23 (page last edited)
NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB MIXED: batch unknown vs 1	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)

No shared like-for-like group exists for this pair.

semantic segmentation

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No published semantic segmentation results for AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 or NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB yet.
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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 Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385:

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No published speech-to-text results for AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 or NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB yet.
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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 Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385:

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No published LLM generation results for AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 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.