GPU
abbreviation or noun
variants
or less commonly gpu
plural GPUs also gpus
: a specialized CPU designed to efficiently perform calculations for generating computer graphics
A GPU can deliver hundreds of billions of operations per second—some GPUs more than a teraflop, or a trillion operations per second—while requiring only slightly more electrical power and cooling than a CPU.—
Andrea Di Blas et al.
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But, looming in the background is Nvidia’s next GPU, the Blackwell B200, expected to arrive later this year.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2024
Tech companies that rely on GPU chips that help power AI applications, which are already in short supply, will likely be watching closely for potential impacts on that area of production.
—Clare Duffy, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
Clark did some back-of-the-envelope calculations and estimated that a 10^25 FLOPS model costs about $7 million to train on the latest GPU hardware, while a 10^26 FLOPS model costs about $70 million to train.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
Then there were the September and October bills, plus $1 million owed to Google Cloud and $600,000 to GPU cloud data center CoreWeave.
—Kenrick Cai, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
The new chip is what is known as a graphics processing unit (GPU) and is what powers language models used in AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
—Bruce Gil, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
Speaking of Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture—today the company also unveiled its B200 Blackwell GPU.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Mar. 2024
What’s ahead for autonomous driving and an array of other pending driving technology is among the many topics in many industries set for explanation, examination and speculation beginning March 18 during the four-day Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC).
—James Raia, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2024
That’s good news for owners of older PC gaming rigs, especially as Alan Wake 2 had some pretty hefty GPU requirements to begin with.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 6 Mar. 2024
IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2024
Tech companies that rely on GPU chips that help power AI applications, which are already in short supply, will likely be watching closely for potential impacts on that area of production.
—Clare Duffy, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
Clark did some back-of-the-envelope calculations and estimated that a 10^25 FLOPS model costs about $7 million to train on the latest GPU hardware, while a 10^26 FLOPS model costs about $70 million to train.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
Then there were the September and October bills, plus $1 million owed to Google Cloud and $600,000 to GPU cloud data center CoreWeave.
—Kenrick Cai, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
The new chip is what is known as a graphics processing unit (GPU) and is what powers language models used in AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
—Bruce Gil, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
Speaking of Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture—today the company also unveiled its B200 Blackwell GPU.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Mar. 2024
What’s ahead for autonomous driving and an array of other pending driving technology is among the many topics in many industries set for explanation, examination and speculation beginning March 18 during the four-day Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC).
—James Raia, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2024
That’s good news for owners of older PC gaming rigs, especially as Alan Wake 2 had some pretty hefty GPU requirements to begin with.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 6 Mar. 2024
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