21.08 Jetson CUDA-X AI Developer Preview provides an early look at a new CUDA-X AI component: cuDNN 8.2.3.

Only cuDNN is included in this release, the rest of the JetPack components are the same as JetPack 4.6. Only Jetson AGX Xavier Developer Kit and Jetson Xavier NX Developer Kit are supported.

JetPack Component
21.08 Jetson CUDA-X AI Developer Preview
JetPack 4.6
L4T 32.6.1 32.6.1
CUDA 10.2.460 10.2.460
cuDNN 8.2.3 8.2.1
TensorRT 8.0.1 8.0.1

JetPack 4.6 remains the latest production release, supporting all Jetson products


Installing 21.08 Jetson CUDA-X AI Developer Preview:

Follow these command instructions to flash your Jetson AGX Xavier Developer Kit or Jeston Xavier NX Developer Kit and install CUDA, cuDNN, and TensorRT.


Key Features in 21.08 Jetson CUDA-X AI Developer Preview

OS

NVIDIA L4T provides the bootloader, Linux kernel, necessary firmwares, NVIDIA drivers, sample filesystem, and more.

21.08 Jetson CUDA-X AI DP Highlights:

  • L4T 32.6.1 features are same as included in JetPack 4.6

For details, see L4T 32.6.1 release notes.

cuDNN

NVIDIA cuDNN is a GPU-accelerated library of primitives for deep neural networks. It provides highly tuned implementations of routines applied frequently in DNN applications.

21.08 Jetson CUDA-X AI DP Highlights:

  • Fixes a performance regression in the RNN-T network.

For details, see cuDNN for Jetson platform release notes..

For the current production version of JetPack, please visit the JetPack page.


For older versions of JetPack, please visit the JetPack Archive