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I thought TPUs are mainly only for inferencing? You can also select GPU on Colab for free which uses a Tesla K80.
by syntaxing 8y ago
I thought TPUs are mainly only for inferencing? You can also select GPU on Colab for free which uses a Tesla K80.
- thesandlord 8y agoTPU v1 was inference only, Cloud TPUs (v2 and v3) do both.
- syntaxing 8y agoInteresting, did not know that. Do you know how it compares to a K80?
- thesandlord 8y agoThere are quite a few benchmarks and comparisons online, I work for GCP so I don't want to give a biased answer. Also, K80s are pretty old these days, though this makes them much cheaper than P100s and V100s. Comparing all of them from a price/perf standpoint (especially with TPUs in the mix) can get tricky because it's different for every use case.