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December 9, 2019December 10, 2019 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 4 Comments

Testing NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit with and without Fan

A few weeks ago I received NVIDIA Jetson Nano for review together with 52Pi ICE Tower cooling fan which Seeed Studio included in the package, and yesterday I wrote a getting started guide showing how to setup the board, and play with inference samples leveraging the board’s AI capabilities. I’ll now test the board with the stock heatsink in both 5W and 10W modes, and see if thermal throttling does occur, and then I’ll fit the tower cooling fan to find out if we can extract more performance that way and how much lower the CPU temperature is. Jetson Nano Stress Tests with Stock Heatsink Let’s install SBC-Bench testing utility,

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ThomasKaiser/sbc-bench/master/sbc-bench.sh
chmod +x sbc-bench.sh

1 2	wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ThomasKaiser/sbc-bench/master/sbc-bench.sh chmod +x sbc-bench.sh

check it’s properly installed,

sudo ./sbc-bench.sh -m
Time        CPU    load %cpu %sys %usr %nice %io %irq   Temp
15:05:06:  922MHz  0.05   5%   1%   2%   0%   0%   0%  35.0°C
15:05:11:  922MHz  0.13   3%   1%   1%   0%   0%   0%  35.0°C
15:05:16:  922MHz  0.12   3%   1%   1%   0%   0%   0%  34.8°C

sudo ./sbc-bench.sh -m

Time CPU load %cpu %sys %usr %nice %io %irq Temp

15:05:06: 922MHz 0.05 5% 1% 2% 0% 0% 0% 35.0°C

15:05:11: 922MHz 0.13 3% 1% 1% 0% 0% 0% 35.0°C

15:05:16: 922MHz 0.12 3% 1% 1% 0% 0% 0% 34.8°C

and run it in 5W mode:

sudo nvpmodel -m 1

sudo ./sbc-bench

sbc-bench v0.6.9

Memory performance:
memcpy: 3685.3 MB/s 
memset: 8555.4 MB/s 

7-zip total scores (3 consecutive runs): 2877,2885,2854

OpenSSL results:
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes  16384 bytes
aes-128-cbc     284837.64k   525113.11k   639412.05k   706251.09k   728449.02k   729841.66k
aes-128-cbc     284316.13k   525028.93k   634287.70k   704675.84k   728088.58k   728973.31k
aes-192-cbc     262002.90k   458230.17k   544725.93k   588999.68k   604075.35k   604607.83k
aes-192-cbc     261583.66k   458583.96k   538986.92k   588138.84k   602303.15k   604067.16k
aes-256-cbc     247370.60k   405101.35k   466444.29k   501432.32k   512816.47k   513370.79k
aes-256-cbc     247650.51k   405270.40k   469783.72k   502266.54k   513187.84k   512977.58k

Full results uploaded to http://ix.io/23rg. Please check the log for anomalies (e.g. swapping
or throttling happenend) and otherwise share this URL.

sudo nvpmodel -m 1

sudo ./sbc-bench

sbc-bench v0.6.9

Memory performance:

memcpy: 3685.3 MB/s

memset: 8555.4 MB/s

7-zip total scores (3 consecutive runs): 2877,2885,2854

OpenSSL results:

type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes 16384 bytes

aes-128-cbc 284837.64k 525113.11k 639412.05k 706251.09k 728449.02k 729841.66k

aes-128-cbc 284316.13k 525028.93k 634287.70k 704675.84k 728088.58k 728973.31k

aes-192-cbc 262002.90k 458230.17k 544725.93k 588999.68k 604075.35k 604607.83k

aes-192-cbc 261583.66k 458583.96k 538986.92k 588138.84k 602303.15k 604067.16k

aes-256-cbc 247370.60k 405101.35k 466444.29k 501432.32k 512816.47k 513370.79k

aes-256-cbc 247650.51k 405270.40k 469783.72k 502266.54k 513187.84k 512977.58k

Full results uploaded to http://ix.io/23rg. Please check the log for anomalies (e.g. swapping

or throttling happenend) and otherwise share this URL.

The temperature never went over 44.5°C, and no throttling occurred. tegrastats during 7-zip multi-core test:

CPU [100%@1428,100%@1428,off,off] EMC_FREQ 3%@1600 GR3D_FREQ 0%@76 APE 25 PLL@41.5C CPU@43.5C PMIC@100C GPU@43.5C AO@52.5C thermal@43.5C POM_5V_IN 3348/2567 POM_5V_GPU 0/0 POM_5V_CPU 1549/912
RAM 1211/3956MB (lfb 515x4MB) SWAP 0/1978MB (cached 0MB) IRAM 0/252kB(lfb 252kB) CPU [100%@1428,100%@1428,off,off] EMC_FREQ 3%@1600 GR3D_FREQ 0%@76 APE 25 PLL@41.5C CPU@44C PMIC@100C GPU@43.5C AO@52C thermal@43.5C POM_5V_IN 3348/2568 POM_5V_GPU 0/0 POM_5V_CPU 1549/912
RAM 1239/3956MB (lfb 508x4MB) SWAP 0/1978MB (cached 0MB) IRAM 0/252kB(lfb 252kB) CPU [100%@1428,100%@1428,off,off] EMC_FREQ 3%@1600 GR3D_FREQ 0%@76 APE 25 PLL@41.5C CPU@44C PMIC@100C GPU@43.5C AO@52.5C thermal@43.5C POM_5V_IN 3348/2569 POM_5V_GPU 0/0 POM_5V_CPU 1549/913
RAM 1265/3956MB (lfb 502x4MB) SWAP 0/1978MB (cached 0MB) IRAM 0/252kB(lfb 252kB) CPU [100%@1428,100%@1428,off,off] EMC_FREQ 3%@1600 GR3D_FREQ 0%@76 APE 25 PLL@41.5C CPU@43.5C PMIC@100C GPU@43.5C AO@52.5C thermal@43.5C POM_5V_IN 3348/2571 POM_5V_GPU 0/0 POM_5V_CPU 1510/914

CPU [100%@1428,100%@1428,off,off] EMC_FREQ 3%@1600 GR3D_FREQ 0%@76 APE 25 PLL@41.5C CPU@43.5C PMIC@100C GPU@43.5C AO@52.5C thermal@43.5C POM_5V_IN 3348/2567 POM_5V_GPU 0/0 POM_5V_CPU 1549/912

RAM 1211/3956MB (lfb 515x4MB) SWAP 0/1978MB (cached 0MB) IRAM 0/252kB(lfb 252kB) CPU [100%@1428,100%@1428,off,off] EMC_FREQ 3%@1600 GR3D_FREQ 0%@76 APE 25 PLL@41.5C CPU@44C PMIC@100C GPU@43.5C AO@52C thermal@43.5C POM_5V_IN 3348/2568 POM_5V_GPU 0/0 POM_5V_CPU 1549/912

RAM 1239/3956MB (lfb 508x4MB) SWAP 0/1978MB (cached 0MB) IRAM 0/252kB(lfb 252kB) CPU [100%@1428,100%@1428,off,off] EMC_FREQ 3%@1600 GR3D_FREQ 0%@76 APE 25 PLL@41.5C CPU@44C PMIC@100C GPU@43.5C AO@52.5C thermal@43.5C POM_5V_IN 3348/2569 POM_5V_GPU 0/0 POM_5V_CPU 1549/913

RAM 1265/3956MB (lfb 502x4MB) SWAP 0/1978MB (cached 0MB) IRAM 0/252kB(lfb 252kB) CPU [100%@1428,100%@1428,off,off] EMC_FREQ 3%@1600 GR3D_FREQ 0%@76 APE 25 PLL@41.5C CPU@43.5C PMIC@100C GPU@43.5C AO@52.5C thermal@43.5C POM_5V_IN 3348/2571 POM_5V_GPU 0/0 POM_5V_CPU 1510/914

Only two Cortex-A57 cores are used even under load, and power […]

December 7, 2019June 25, 2021 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 3 Comments

AI inference using Images, RTSP Video Stream on NVIDIA Jetson Nano Devkit

Last month I received NVIDIA Jetson Nano developer kit together with 52Pi ICE Tower Cooling Fan, and the main goal was to compare the performance of the board with the stock heatsink or 52Pi heatsink + fan combo. But the stock heatsink does a very good job of cooling the board, and typical CPU stress tests do not make the processor throttle at all. So I had to stress the GPU as well, as it takes some efforts to set it up all, so I’ll report my experience configuring the board, and running AI test programs including running objects detection on an RTSP video stream. Setting up NVIDIA Jetson Nano Board Preparing the board is very much like you’d do with other SBC’s such as the Raspberry Pi, and NVIDIA has a nicely put getting started guide, so I won’t go into too many details here. To summarize: Download the […]

December 1, 2019 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 26 Comments

Run Raspberry Pi 4 Cooler with a New Firmware & One Easy Trick

Raspberry Pi 4 launched last June with a lot of buzz as it offered much better performance, more memory, and faster I/Os compared to Raspberry Pi 3 model B+. Benchmarks confirmed the improved performance but also revealed a heatsink was necessary to ensure optimal performance under heavy loads. Some companies also launched an oversized heatsink+fan combo for the board, but it’s really over the top and absolutely not necessary unless possibly in higher room temperature (50°C?). The Raspberry Pi Foundation also worked on improving the video to lower CPU temperature and power consumption, and a few days later released a beta version of VLI firmware that dropped the temperature by 3 to 5°C. Good effort but sadly the updated VLI firmware (used for the PCIe to USB controller) also had the side-effect of much slower USB performance. A new VLI firmware was released in September offering both a lower temperature […]

November 11, 2019May 16, 2020 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 2 Comments

NVIDIA Jetson Nano Review with 52Pi ICE Tower Cooling Fan – Part 1: Unboxing

Jetson Nano Review with ICE Tower Cooling Fan

If you remember soon after Raspberry Pi 4 launch, there were talks about the SBC overheating under load, and depending on room temperature and workload a heatsink may be needed for the board to perform optimally at all times. This gave birth to “interesting” solutions such as 52Pi ICE Tower Cooling Fan, an oversized cooling solution for Raspberry Pi 4. It does the job however, and it allows me to overclock Raspberry Pi 4 to 2.0 GHz while keeping the CPU temperature under 55°C in a room at 28°C. But the latest Raspberry Pi Foundation board is not the only SBC to suffer from overheating, as at least one user noticed the board would just shutdown under load. The solution was to switch from 10W mode to 5W mode, not an ideal solution since it’s also lowering performance. But 52Pi is coming to the rescue again, as they adapted their […]

November 6, 2019 by Karl Johnson - 1 Comment

Quick Update for the AnyCubic Photon S Photon Workshop V2.1.17.RC1

Just last week I did the first part of the review of the Anycubic Photon S. One of the pain points of printing was the long workflow. Chitubox Prusa slicer Photon File Validator Photon Workshop First thing I have to decide is if the model needs to be hollowed to conserve resin. I load up the model in Chitubox and use the built-in tool to hollow the model. After the models hollowed and a drain hole is placed I export it to an STL and open with Prusa Slicer. In Prusa Slicer, I orient the model and use its auto-support feature and auto-orient feature. It is a roll of the dice if the orientation makes sense. I want all the supports to be on the back/bottom of the print. Little marks are left when removing the supports. I have found that Prusa Slicer has the best auto support feature. Then […]

November 5, 2019November 5, 2019 by Karl Johnson - No Comments

How to install Duet 2 Maestro Board on HE3D K280 3D Printer

Quite a while ago I reviewed the HE3D K280 delta 3D printer. Up until now, I did no mods other than the ones that I completed during the initial build. I have been very happy with it with the exception of the noise caused by inexpensive drivers and the salmon skin due to the drivers as well. The K280 prints big and pretty accurate at modest speeds. Today I am outlining how I upgraded to a Duet 2 Maestro mainboard. With this upgrade, I am jumping from an 8-bit board with generic drivers to a 32-bit board with TMC2224 drivers. The upgrade was quite painless and straightforward but not without a few hiccups. The Maestro is Duet’s entry-level board for about $130. I attempted the Bigtreetech SKR 1.3 with TMC2130’s but the firmware wasn’t quite there yet. I opened an issue on Marlin’s GitHub page which explains the issue in […]

November 4, 2019November 8, 2019 by Karl Johnson - 24 Comments

Sovol SV01 Upgrade with BigTreeTech SKR mini E3 Control Board

Sovol SV01 Upgrade: Bigtreetech SKR mini E3

Karl here with a quick upgrade guide. The one complaint I had in the review of the SV01 3D printer was it was loud. Today we are going to look at resolving part of the problem by replacing the Creality board with the BigTreeTech SKR mini E3 V1.2 control board sold on Amazon for around $37. Fan noise at a later date. This board is ideal because the SD card, USB, and screws line up for nearly a perfect replacement. I did not bother hooking up the filament runout sensor. I have never found them particularly useful and always ensure I start with enough filament and bypassed it for the review. The board comes with TMC2209 drivers which significantly reduce the stepper motor noise as well as stop any salmon skin. SKR Mini E3 Warning This board is a replacement for the board found on the Ender 3. Below is […]

November 1, 2019November 1, 2019 by Karl Johnson - 15 Comments

Anycubic Photon S Review – Part 1: Getting Started with an SLA 3D Printer

Hey, Karl here with something different. I will be breaking this one down into at least 2 posts. There is a lot to cover. In this first post, I will be sharing my initial experiences with the Anycubic Photon S. It is an LCD based SLA 3D printer. You might ask what is that? If you are a long-time reader you may have ran across my traditional FDM printer reviews. FDM printers use plastic filament on a roll. The filament is fed to a hot end which melts the plastic and deposits layers. Most everyone is familiar with this kind of 3D printing and is easy to understand. LCD based SLA printers work a little differently. We’ll start from the bottom. At the bottom of this printer is a bunch of ultraviolet 405nm LEDs. The LEDs turn on and shine through a 2k LCD screen. Above that is a vat […]