docs: add Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit Super rows to BENCHMARK.md by AubinGil · Pull Request #79 · NVIDIA/NeMo-Speech.cpp

AubinGil · 2026-10-24T15:04:32Z

Benchmark results were measured on JetPack 7.2 / CUDA 13.2 with commit e680fc3 (built for sm_87 with GGML_CUDA_NO_VMM=ON, 25 W power mode, average of three runs), using the commands detailed in the Methodology section.

-ASR: Measured on the full LibriSpeech test-clean set (WER with the Whisper English normalizer).
-TTS: Measured on the Riva filelist and the bench inputs.

Note: NeMo (PyTorch) was not run on the board, so only NeMo-Speech.cpp rows are added.

AI disclosure: the benchmark runs were orchestrated and the table text was generated by an AI assistant (Claude) from the raw bench logs; the owner reviewed the numbers and submits them.

Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5.1

Measured on JetPack 7.2 / CUDA 13.2 with commit e680fc3 built for sm_87 with GGML_CUDA_NO_VMM=ON, 25 W power mode, average of three runs, using the commands in the Methodology section. ASR on the full LibriSpeech test-clean set (WER with the Whisper English normalizer), TTS on the Riva filelist and the bench inputs. NeMo (PyTorch) was not run on the board, so only NeMo-Speech.cpp rows are added. AI disclosure: the benchmark runs were orchestrated and the table text was generated by an AI assistant (Claude) from the raw bench logs; the owner reviewed the numbers and submits them. Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5.1 Signed-off-by: Aubin <gildas.tien@gmail.com>

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- Added Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit Super benchmark results for speech recognition and MagpieTTS, with details on the test setup and result averaging.
- Updated the speech-recognition benchmark description to include Jetson alongside the RTX 4090 and CPU.

The benchmark document adds Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit Super system and build details, speech-recognition and MagpieTTS measurements, and a note about run averaging.

Changes: Jetson benchmark documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Jetson benchmark conditions `BENCHMARK.md`	The document adds Jetson hardware, software, and build details. It also notes the VMM workaround, CUDA path requirements, ggml round graphs, and run averaging.
Jetson benchmark results `BENCHMARK.md`	The document adds speech-recognition and MagpieTTS results, including throughput, latency, and WER measurements. It notes that NeMo was not run on the board.

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Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

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Possibly related issues

Jetson Orin (JetPack 7.2 / CUDA 13.2): v0.2.0 cuda12 archive puts TTS on the CPU and aborts; nightly fixes that but aborts in the ggml VMM pool (cuMemAddressReserve) #77 — The benchmark documents Jetson conditions and a build workaround also mentioned in this issue; it does not report a fix for the failures.

Possibly related PRs

NVIDIA/NeMo-Speech.cpp#46 — The Jetson ASR results report measurements for an implementation that includes changes from this PR.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 8873a

The PR is documentation-only, but benchmark conditions should be corrected so readers can accurately interpret and reproduce the results.

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Confidence Score: 5/5

[Low impact] This documentation-only PR appears safe to merge.

Summary

Adds Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit Super results to BENCHMARK.md.

Jetson Orin Nano results show speech recognition speed and accuracy across two chunk sizes.
Jetson Orin Nano results show MagpieTTS streaming speed across several input lengths.

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- Around line 148-151: Update the Jetson benchmark note to attribute the fused
CUDA decoder fallback to its persistent tier’s SM-count check, and the
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- Line 166: Update the ASR trials rule in the table header to include DGX Spark
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coderabbitai · 2026-10-24T15:09:31Z

+| Build | Release, `-DCMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=87 -DGGML_CUDA_NO_VMM=ON`, commit e680fc3 |
+| NeMo | Not run on this board |
+
+`GGML_CUDA_NO_VMM=ON` works around the ggml VMM pool reservation failure on integrated Jetson GPUs (#77). The fused CUDA decoder and local-transformer paths need more SMs than the Orin has, so MagpieTTS runs on the ggml round graphs here. Average of three runs for every row.


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#!/bin/bash set -euo pipefail git grep -n -E 'GGML_CUDA_NO_VMM|CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES|round graph|fused.*decoder|local-transformer' e680fc3 -- . git grep -n -E 'GGML_CUDA_NO_VMM|round graph|fused.*decoder|local-transformer' -- .

Repository: NVIDIA/NeMo-Speech.cpp

Length of output: 31215

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#!/bin/bash set -uo pipefail echo "== lt.cpp local-transformer selection (e680fc3) ==" git show e680fc3:src/tts/magpietts/lt.cpp | sed -n '1341,1460p' | cat -n | sed 's/^/L+1340 /' echo "== decoder fused SM tier check (e680fc3) ==" git show e680fc3:src/tts/magpietts/magpietts_decoder_fused.cu | sed -n '700,730p' | cat -n | sed 's/^/L+699 /' echo "== vendored ggml presence / GGML_CUDA_NO_VMM option (e680fc3) ==" git ls-tree -r --name-only e680fc3 | rg -i '(^|/)ggml[^/]*$|third_party|submodule' | head -n 40 || test "$?" -eq 1 git grep -n -F -e 'GGML_CUDA_NO_VMM' e680fc3 -- . || test "$?" -eq 1 git grep -n -F -e 'GGML_CUDA_NO_VMM' -- . || test "$?" -eq 1 cat .gitmodules 2>/dev/null | head -n 40 || true

Repository: NVIDIA/NeMo-Speech.cpp

Length of output: 11987

Correct the local-transformer fallback reason in the Jetson notes.

The benchmark note says the fused CUDA decoder and local-transformer paths need more SMs than the Orin has. The fused decoder matches this. Its persistent tier check fails on SM count. The local-transformer path does not match. Its fallback to ggml round graphs comes from an unsupported chain or a non-Q8_0 model, not from an SM count. Update the note so the two paths give their own fallback reasons. Also confirm that GGML_CUDA_NO_VMM is defined in the vendored ggml build, because this checkout does not include the ggml source.

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coderabbitai · 2026-10-24T15:09:31Z

 | Metrics | Compute per chunk is the time to process one chunk; NeMo's excludes feature extraction, which its streaming example runs per utterance. Throughput is audio duration over wall time; NeMo's likewise excludes feature extraction. WER uses the Whisper English normalizer. |
 | CPU subset | Every 26th utterance of test-clean (100 utterances, 40 speakers, 13.3 min) |
-| Trials | RTX 4090 and CPU: NeMo-Speech.cpp average of three, NeMo one |
+| Trials | RTX 4090, CPU and Jetson: NeMo-Speech.cpp average of three, NeMo one |


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git diff --unified=20 e680fc30ac7404ba3acd58532f713becf8625894 8873ac22ad9bdbffaa505c89e5c49e8fb29b524f -- BENCHMARK.md printf '\n--- trial and platform references ---\n' rg -n -C 4 'DGX|Trials|average|averag|run|NeMo-Speech.cpp' BENCHMARK.md printf '\n--- relevant document ranges ---\n' sed -n '1,190p' BENCHMARK.md

Repository: NVIDIA/NeMo-Speech.cpp

Length of output: 22646

Document the DGX Spark ASR trial rule.

The ASR table includes DGX Spark NeMo-Speech.cpp rows, but line 166 lists only RTX 4090, CPU, and Jetson. The document supports three-run averaging for the Jetson rows, but it does not state the DGX Spark trial count. Add DGX Spark with its actual trial rule; do not assume it used three runs.

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