Well, I'm speaking from personal experience, for many (but not all) text-classification IO-intensive models with large embedding tables Xeon on TF compiled with

Well, I'm speaking from personal experience, for many (but not all) text-classification IO-intensive models with large embedding tables Xeon on TF compiled with AVX2 or AVX514 and FMA is as fast as GPU. Obviously these models need to be on the lower spectrum of computational complexity.