Benchmarking Modern GPUs for Maximum Cloud Cost Efficiency in Deep Learning

A 36% price cut to GPU instances, in addition to the potential new benefits offered by software and GPU updates, however, might be enough to tip the cost-efficiency scales back in favor of GPUs.

November 28, 2017 · 8 min

Benchmarking TensorFlow on Cloud CPUs: Cheaper Deep Learning than Cloud GPUs

Using CPUs instead of GPUs for deep learning training in the cloud is cheaper because of the massive cost differential afforded by preemptible instances.

July 5, 2017 · 7 min