Japan to Unveil Pascal GPU-Based AI Supercomputer

Re:Japan to Unveil Pascal GPU-Based AI Supercomputer by boulos on Sunday March 12, 2017 @04:13PM (#13852795)

How does 1000W compare to the rest of the car? Also, I can't find any concrete numbers from NVIDIA, but the great discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12938016 pointed at an Anandtech article suggesting the full Drive PX2 is 250W (and suggested that a Model S chews up about 3600W).

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Re:Japan to Unveil Pascal GPU-Based AI Supercomputer by semi-extrinsic on Sunday March 12, 2017 @04:29PM (#13852902)

For reference, a reasonably big alternator on a mid-2000 petrol car is ~2200 W. Alternators are perhaps getting bigger as we stuff more electronics into cars?

That 3600 W for the Model S sounds high if I understand it's just for the brainbox; that alone would consume all your 85 kWh in less than 24h.

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Re:Japan to Unveil Pascal GPU-Based AI Supercomputer by deepnotderp on Sunday March 12, 2017 @06:10PM (#13853445)

I'm aware (excruciatingly aware...) of that. Our numbers are ~10X better despite a process disadvantage.

And as always, Nvidia is twiddling the numbers, they exclude the cost of memory access when calculating 1 top/w, whereas we include it.

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