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Re:Which GPUs to Get for Deep Learning by maaku on Monday February 23, 2015 @03:04PM (#9096628)
AMD cards are slow, for these sorts of applications.
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Re:Which GPUs to Get for Deep Learning by timdettmers on Monday February 23, 2015 @03:06PM (#9096657)
AMD cards were much faster than the Kepler equivalents, but now NVIDIA fixed their mistakes in that architecture and they are as fast as AMD cards. So AMDs hardware is good, it is just a software issue.
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Re:Which GPUs to Get for Deep Learning by wtallis on Monday February 23, 2015 @03:14PM (#9096716)
Was Kepler actually slow, or did it just seem that way because the 680 was built with their mid-range chip while the big high-end GPGPU-oriented chip was initially reserved for the server products?
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Re:Which GPUs to Get for Deep Learning by timdettmers on Monday February 23, 2015 @03:23PM (#9096765)
Tesla GPUs are also rather slow, but the value of Tesla lies in increased double performance, larger memory and memory correction -- and you cannot beat Tesla GPUs in these departments.
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Re:Which GPUs to Get for Deep Learning by wtallis on Monday February 23, 2015 @03:09PM (#9096675)
Care to offer any benchmarks or an explanation of the architectural deficiencies that would make them dramatically under-perform their FLOPS and memory bandwidth ratings? When AMD cards were vastly preferred over NVidia for bitcoin mining, it had a very simple and straightforward explanation.
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