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For comparison, AlphaZero used 4 TPUs and the same number of cores. So more computing power but not absurdly so.
by marcinzm 8y ago
For comparison, AlphaZero used 4 TPUs and the same number of cores. So more computing power but not absurdly so.
- why_only_15 8y agoAnd it's literally true that the TPU has more computing power than a CPU in terms of e.g. flops but part of the reason why NNs are so powerful is that their operations can effectively be parallelized whereas Stockfish is optimized for CPUs that can efficiently branch and do smaller, more flexible operations.