Category Archives: Hardware

AWS EC2 GPU instance comparison

Posted on April 17, 2023 by tim

These are the results from running the ml-style-transfer project on three different AWS EC2 instance types. Instance Name $Cost/hour 250 epochs 2,500 epochs 50,000 epochs p3.2xlarge $3.06 14s$0.0119 55s$0.0468 928s$0.7888 t2.large $0.093 849s$0.0219 14,676s$0.3791 293,520s(extrapolated)$7.5826 c5.4xlarge $0.68 221s$0.0417 2,152s$0.4065 43,040(extrapolated)$8.1298 … Continue reading →

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Benchmark Disks NVMe vs SSD SATA vs HDD SATA

Posted on September 22, 2022 by tim

Benchmarked with Samsung Magician Device Seq ReadMB/s Seq WriteMB/s Random ReadIOPS Random WriteIOPS Samsung 980 Pro1TB NVMe 6920 5174 984130 297607 Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVMe 7007 5240 1053222 924072 Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVMewhen plugged into a PCIe 4.0 … Continue reading →

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HP Workstation

Posted on May 7, 2022 by tim

The goal of this machine to experiment with mid-range video editing and/or be a monster Virtual Machine Server. It was refurbished, from PC Server Parts Certified Refurbished. It kept going in and out of stock. It arrived in a big … Continue reading →

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Dell 3020 SFF

Posted on February 19, 2022 by tim

The goal of this machine was to buy a complete (monitor included) machine for less than $300, taxes and shipping included. It was refurbished, from Blair Technology, “on sale” from $480. It arrived in a big box that contained two … Continue reading →

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Video Card Relative Benchmarks

Posted on November 23, 2021 by tim

Name Bench mark CUDA cores Tensor cores Notes RTX 4090 ? 16,384 ? 24GB GDDR6X $1600 2022/Sep RTX 4080 ? 9,728 304 16GB GDDR6X $1200 2022/Sep RTX 4080 ? 7,680 240 12B GDDR6X $900 2022/Sep RTX 3090Ti 29,342 10,752 336 … Continue reading →

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