Nvidia has unveiled the new Jetson Orin Nano Super Generative AI supercomputer, its most affordable so far, with a price-tag of $249, down from $499.

“Available today, it delivers as much as a 1.7x leap in generative AI inference performance, a 70% increase in performance to 67 INT8 TOPS, and a 50% increase in memory bandwidth to 102GB/s compared with its predecessor,” said Nvidia’s Chen Su in a blog post.

The SoM uses an NVIDIA Ampere architecture GPU with tensor cores and a 6-core Arm CPU.

The new Jetson Orin Nano Super Generative AI supercomputer is aimed at supporting the GenAI needs of users such as hobbyists, developers, and students. The Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit also fits in the palm of a hand, per Nvidia.

Some tasks that users can carry out include creating LLM chatbots based on retrieval-augmented generation, building a visual AI agent, or deploying AI-based robots, said Nvidia in its blog post.