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by daxfohl 2151 days ago
I think that's the big advantage of FPGA. If you need acceleration to hit a 10 microsecond latency target, FPGA is what you need. If your latency target is like a millisecond or longer, then GPU can handle a lot more throughput. But GPU can't typically give you a 10-us guarantee.

Okay, bit-banging is another advantage of FPGA that GPU doesn't do as well. There are a few things.

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Regarding DNN inference FPGA can provide low latency AND higher throughput than GPUS.

If you want to compare apples-to-apples, we have done a comparison with realistic (and not synthetic) data regarding the performance of GPUs and FPGAs.

https://medium.com/@inaccel/faster-inference-real-benchmarks...

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