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> energy efficiency I highly doubt that offloading the rendering to a GPU is more energy efficient. I'm quite sure it's the exact opposite: GPUs are power hung
by berkes 2y ago
> energy efficiency
I highly doubt that offloading the rendering to a GPU is more energy efficient. I'm quite sure it's the exact opposite: GPUs are power hungry energy-eaters; commonly.
- datadeft 2y agoSure? https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/gpu-energy-efficiency-nersc/ https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/gpu-energy-efficiency-nersc/
- Delk 2y agoGPUs (namely discrete ones) often have high maximum power draw, but that's because they're generally used for tasks that require computational heavy lifting. That doesn't mean they're particularly power-hungry in terms of watts vs. amount of work done. If you offload e.g. video decoding to a GPU, that's usually more energy-efficient than decoding on the CPU. (The heavy lifting is probably more energy-efficient on the GPU, too, but that's not directly relevant here.)