Google claims[0] the TPU is many times faster for the workloads they've designed it for.
> On our production AI workloads that utilize neural network inference, the TPU is 15x to 30x faster than contemporary GPUs and CPUs.
As far as I know this will be the first opportunity for the public to prove those claims, as until now they've not been available on GCP. I don't mean to sound skeptical–I'm quite confident they're not exaggerating.
> On our production AI workloads that utilize neural network inference, the TPU is 15x to 30x faster than contemporary GPUs and CPUs.
As far as I know this will be the first opportunity for the public to prove those claims, as until now they've not been available on GCP. I don't mean to sound skeptical–I'm quite confident they're not exaggerating.
[0]: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/04/quantifying-the...