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Cars, especially the sort that will need to do self-driving, will have massive batteries in them. I'm talking about Roomba-sized devices where they can't power
by astrodust 10y ago
Cars, especially the sort that will need to do self-driving, will have massive batteries in them. I'm talking about Roomba-sized devices where they can't power a full GPU worth of gear.
- imtringued 10y agoWhere did you get the nonsensical idea that they are going to use desktop GPUs in cars? The board they specifically designed for self driving cars merely needs a few watts for 500 GFLOPS. Why would this not be suitable for a "Roomba-sized device"? https://m.f.ix.de/scale/geometry/1280/q50/imgs/18/1/6/4/4/6/7/0/Jetson_TX1_16-9-3f0a4a7015bbda4b.jpeg@jpg https://m.f.ix.de/scale/geometry/1280/q50/imgs/18/1/6/4/4/6/...
- astrodust 10y agoGoogle packs their cars to the gills with hardware, so just going based on what fully autonomous systems use today.
- nl 10y agoThey may have large batteries if they are electric cars, but it won't be for the GPUs. The NVidia PX2 platform[1] - which is what the Telsa self-driving features uses[2] - is available in a 10W config. I presume this isn't the full self-driving mode, but the Jetson TK1 can do full image tracking and recognition in less than 30W (and that is a 2 year old platform). [1] http://www.nvidia.com/object/drive-px.html http://www.nvidia.com/object/drive-px.html [2] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/10/20/tesla-motors-self-driving/ https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/10/20/tesla-motors-self-d... [3] http://developer.download.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson/TK1/docs/Jetson_TK1_FAQ_2014May01_V2.pdf http://developer.download.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson/TK1/doc...