Best GPU For Deep Learning Guide
Best GPU For Deep Learning Guide
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In this guide, you will learn:
The importance of GPUs in deep learning 3
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Why Are GPUs Important GPU Factors to Consider
These factors affect the scalability and ease of use of
in Deep Learning? the GPUs you choose:
Licensing
Another factor to consider is NVIDIA’s guidance
How to Choose the Best regarding the use of certain chips in data centers. As
of a licensing update in 2018, there may be restrictions
GPU for Deep Learning? on use of CUDA software with consumer GPUs in
a data center. This may require organizations to
transition to production-grade GPUs.
Selecting the GPUs for your implementation has
significant budget and performance implications. You Algorithm Factors Affective GPU Use
need to select GPUs that can support your project In our experience helping organizations optimize large-
in the long run and have the ability to scale through scale deep learning workloads, the following are the
integration and clustering. For large-scale projects, this three key factors you should consider when scaling up
means selecting production-grade or data center GPUs. your algorithm across multiple GPUs.
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Data Parallelism – Consider how much data your NVIDIA Titan V
algorithms need to process. If datasets are going to be
large, invest in GPUs capable of performing multi-GPU The Titan V is a PC GPU that was designed for use
training efficiently. For very large scale datasets, make by scientists and researchers. It is based on NVIDIA’s
sure that servers can communicate quickly with each
other and with storage components, using technology
Volta technology and includes Tensor Cores. The Titan
like Infiniband/RoCE, to enable efficient distributed V comes in Standard and CEO Editions.
training.
Using Consumer GPUs Each Titan RTX provides 130 teraflops, 24GB GDDR6
for Deep Learning memory, 6MB cache, and 11 GigaRays per second.
This is due to 72 Turing RT Cores and 576 multi
precision Turing Tensor Cores.
While consumer GPUs are not suitable for large-
scale deep learning projects, these processors NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
can provide a good entry point for deep learning. The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is a PC GPU designed
Consumer GPUs can also be a cheaper supplement for enthusiasts. It is based on the TU102 graphics
for less complex tasks, such as model planning or processor. Each GeForce RTX 2080 Ti provides 11GB
low-level testing. However, as you scale up, you’ll of memory, a 352-bit memory bus, a 6MB cache, and
want to consider data center grade GPUs and roughly 120 teraflops of performance.
high-end deep learning systems like NVIDIA’s DGX
series (learn more in the following sections).
In particular, the Titan V has been shown to provide
performance similar to datacenter-grade GPUs
when it comes to Word RNNs. Additionally, its
performance for CNNs is only slightly below higher
tier options. The Titan RTX and RTX 2080 Ti aren’t
far behind.
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