NVIDIA DGX Spark vs NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB

NVIDIA DGX Spark desktop AI computer, gold metal-foam chassis, oblique view on a wooden table — NVIDIA DGX Spark. Photo: Daniel Lu (User:dllu), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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 DGX Spark is faster in all 2 like-for-like comparisons (largest gap: LLM generation, 5.49×).

	NVIDIA DGX Spark	NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB
Best object detection	990 FPS B 2026-09-27 (page last edited)	287 FPS B 2026-10-13 (page last edited)
Power	153 W spec	n/a
Perf / W	6.47 FPS/W spec	n/a
Price	$6950 list	n/a
Workloads with data	2 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 DGX Spark	990 FPS inference_time · b=1	YOLO11n FP16 · Ultralytics TensorRT · nano (YOLO-n)	B	153 W spec platform spec envelope (not measured with this result)	Ultralytics documentation (benchmark table) 2026-09-27 (page last edited)
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)

instance segmentation

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No published instance segmentation results for NVIDIA DGX Spark or NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB yet.
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pose estimation

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No published pose estimation results for NVIDIA DGX Spark or NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB yet.
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image classification

Only NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB has published image classification results.

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)

NVIDIA DGX Spark:

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No published image classification results for NVIDIA DGX Spark or NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB yet.
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semantic segmentation

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No published semantic segmentation results for NVIDIA DGX Spark 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)

NVIDIA DGX Spark:

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No published speech-to-text results for NVIDIA DGX Spark or NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB yet.
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LLM generation

✓ Like-for-like: model-size class LLM 5–14B, batch 1. Model, precision and stack may still differ.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
NVIDIA DGX Spark	60.39 tok/s tg128 · b=1	Llama 2 7B Q4_0 · llama.cpp Vulkan (FA on, commit 657e011) · LLM 5–14B	C	153 W spec platform spec envelope (not measured with this result)	llama.cpp discussion #10879 Vulkan scoreboard (via GitHub API) 2026-10-10 (page last edited)
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)

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.