Rockchip released the first AI chip RK3399Pro, NPU performance reached 2.4TOPs!

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At the CES 2018 Consumer Electronics Show, Rockchip released its first super-powerful AI processor RK3399Pro to the world, providing a one-stop Turnkey solution for AI artificial intelligence. Its on-chip NPU (Neural Network Processor) computing performance is up to 2.4TOPs. It has the advantages of high performance, low power consumption and easy development.

RK3399Pro AI chip has superb general computing performance. It adopts big.LITTLE core CPU architecture, dual-core Cortex-A72+ quad-core Cortex-A53, and has leading technology in overall performance and power consumption; quad-core ARM high-end GPU Mali- T860, integrated more bandwidth compression technology, excellent overall performance.

The RK3399Pro AI chip has high expansion capabilities, such as: supporting dual TypeC interfaces; dual ISP, single channel maximum support 13 million pixels; support 4096x2160 display output and other functions; support 8-channel digital microphone array input. In terms of software, it supports many APIs (application development interfaces), including OpenGL ES 1.x/2.x/3.1/3.2, Vulkan 1.0, OpenCL 1.1/1.2, RenderScript, etc.

RK3399Pro has extremely strong AI computing performance. It is Rockchip's first AI chip designed with CPU+GPU+NPU hardware structure. Its integrated NPU (neural network processor) combines Rockchip’s machine vision, voice processing, deep learning and other fields. Years of experience. Compared with traditional chips, the typical deep neural network Inception V3, ResNet34, VGG16 and other models have performed well on the RK3399Pro chip, which has been improved nearly 100 times.

Three characteristics of RK3399Pro AI chip:

1. High AI hardware performance

RK3399Pro uses proprietary AI hardware design, NPU computing performance is up to 2.4TOPs, high performance and low power consumption indicators are significantly ahead: compared to similar NPU chip performance leading 150%; compared to GPU as a large-scale AI computing unit solution, power consumption Less than 1% of what it needs.

2. Strong platform compatibility

RK3399Pro's NPU supports 8bit and 16bit operations and is compatible with various AI software frameworks. The existing AI interface supports OpenVX and TensorFlowLite/AndroidNN API, and AI software tools support the import, mapping, and optimization of Caffe/TensorFlow models.

3. The complete solution is easy to develop

Rockchip provides a one-stop AI solution based on RK3399Pro chip, including hardware reference design and software SDK, which can greatly increase the speed of AI product development for developers worldwide and greatly shorten the time to market.

RK3399Pro is Rockchip's first integrated AI hardware processor, and its platform can be quickly mass-produced and commercialized. It is very suitable for various AI application fields such as intelligent driving, image recognition, security monitoring, unmanned aerial vehicle, voice recognition and so on.

The release of Rockchip RK3399Pro has great influence in the global industrial chain, which greatly reduces the threshold for AI artificial intelligence industry to innovate and mass-produce commercial use, with stronger performance and lower energy consumption, which will accelerate the comprehensive popularization of AI artificial intelligence.