Can a Jetson Orin Nano run Llama 3.2 1B?
Yes, at a comfortable chat speed. Measured generation speed: 54.8 tok/s across 1 public run.
Rule of thumb: 10+ tok/s feels like a chat; 4–10 is usable for assistants and automations; under 4 is batch-job territory. Speeds depend on quantization, runtime, context length and cooling. Check each source.
| Board | Size | Runtime | Gen tok/s | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jetson Orin Nano | 1B | MLC 0.1.2 dustynv/mlc:0.1.2-r36.3.0 | 54.8 | source ↗ accessed 2026-10-17 |
Llama 3.2 1B on other boards
- Jetson AGX Orin 163.9 tok/s best
- Raspberry Pi 5 11.22 tok/s best
- Jetson Orin Nano Super 10.96 tok/s best
- Raspberry Pi 5 + AI HAT+ 2 8.7 tok/s best
- M5Stack Module LLM 4.48 tok/s best
Buy a Jetson Orin Nano
- Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit (same hardware, original power mode)$399same dev kit as Super; Super mode is a JetPack 6.2 flash · price source ↗ (2026-07-21)Buy at Seeed StudioBuy on Amazon
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