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Re:Neural Networks in JavaScript with Deeplearn.js by yazr on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @04:53PM (#15856376)
Does anyone have performance figures ?

Is is 10x 100x 3x slower than standalone GPU lib ?!

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Re:Neural Networks in JavaScript with Deeplearn.js by brianchu on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @10:29PM (#15858231)
When possible, most DL frameworks take advantage of Nvidia's specialized CuDNN libraries, which often provide a 10x+ speedup (and are obviously not available via WebGL). So at least on the latest Nvidia cards, you will likely see a 10x slowdown, and probably even more.
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Re:Neural Networks in JavaScript with Deeplearn.js by jorgemf on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @05:55PM (#15856875)
It uses WebGL to use the GPU, so probably is closer to other standalone libs (but I guess it will depend on the kernels the Networks uses and how WebGL can handle them)
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