NVIDIA Parker SoC adds serious processing power to Autonomous Vehicles

NVIDIA Parker is the new mobile processor designed specifically for next generation autonomous vehicles. Parker processors are used in Nvidia’s Drive PX 2 platform and more than 80 car makers, tier 1 suppliers and university research centres use the Drive PX 2 platform to make autonomous vehicles. The Drive PX 2 system can deliver up to 24 trillion deep learning operations per second. In real world terms, you need 150 MacBook Pros to generate this much power and the PX 2 is as small as a lunch box.

At the heart of Parker is a Pascal GeForce GPU with 256 CUDA cores, ARM v8 based CPU (2x Denver 2 cores + 4x ARM Cortex A57 cores). Parker can support triple displays each up to 4K resolution at 60fps and this gives onboard cameras accurate object detection and powerful in-car entertainment system.

There is no denying that self driving and autonomous vehicles is the future of automobile industry and the big players are working round the clock to achieve supremacy. With systems like Nvidia Parker, auto makers get serious amount of power to tap into and get the truly autonomous vehicle concept a reality.