{"id":13958,"date":"2019-01-16T20:43:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T20:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/nvidias-t4-gpus-are-now-available-in-beta-on-google-cloud.html"},"modified":"2019-01-16T20:43:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T20:43:35","slug":"nvidias-t4-gpus-are-now-available-in-beta-on-google-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/nvidias-t4-gpus-are-now-available-in-beta-on-google-cloud.html","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia\u2019s T4 GPUs are now available in beta on Google Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google <\/a> Cloud today announced<\/a> that Nvidia\u2019s Turing-based Tesla T4 data center GPUs<\/a>\u00a0are now available in beta in its data centers in\u00a0Brazil, India, Netherlands, Singapore, Tokyo and the United States. Google first announced<\/a> a private test of these cards in November, but that was a very limited alpha test. All developers can now take these new T4 GPUs for a spin through Google\u2019s Compute Engine service.<\/p>\n

The T4, which essentially uses the same processor architecture as Nvidia\u2019s RTX cards for consumers, slots in-between the existing Nvidia V100 and P4 GPUs on the Google Cloud Platform <\/a>. While the V100 is optimized for machine learning, though, the T4 (as its P4 predecessor) is more of a general-purpose GPU that also turns out to be great for training models and inferencing.<\/p>\n

In terms of machine and deep learning performance, the 16GB T4 is significantly slower than the V100, though if you are mostly running inference on the cards, you may actually see a speed boost. Unsurprisingly, using the T4 is also cheaper than the V100, starting at $0.95 per hour compared to $2.48 per hour for the V100, with another discount for using preemptible\u00a0VMs and Google\u2019s usual sustained use<\/a> discounts.<\/p>\n

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Google says that the card\u2019s 16GB memory should easily handle large machine learning models and the ability to run multiple smaller models at the same time. The standard PCI Express 3.0 card also comes with support for Nvidia\u2019s Tensor Cores to accelerate deep learning and Nvidia\u2019s new RTX ray-tracing cores. Performance tops\u00a0out at 260 TOPS and developers can connect up to four T4 GPUs to a virtual machine.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth stressing that this is also the first GPU in the Google Cloud lineup that supports Nvidia\u2019s ray-tracing technology. There isn\u2019t a lot of software on the market yet that actually makes use of this technique, which allows you to render more lifelike images in real time, but if you need a virtual workstation with a powerful next-generation graphics card, that\u2019s now an option.<\/p>\n

With today\u2019s beta launch of the T4, Google Cloud now offers quite a variety of Nvidia GPUs<\/a>, including the K80, P4, P100 and V100, all at different price points and with different performance characteristics.<\/p>\n

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