Re:Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custo...
by Florin_Andrei on Thursday May 19, 2016 @01:23PM
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> They say 10x performance / watt
Well, that's the kind of metric you'd expect from a cloud provider. That's what's important to them.
If you're a tinkerer dabbling in TPU acceleration on your gaming/coding PC alongside with GPU acceleration, then the metric that would be interesting for you is speed increase per unit.
Well, that's the kind of metric you'd expect from a cloud provider. That's what's important to them.
If you're a tinkerer dabbling in TPU acceleration on your gaming/coding PC alongside with GPU acceleration, then the metric that would be interesting for you is speed increase per unit.