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▲ ashvardanian 14 days ago

In case someone is looking for some performance examples & testimonials, even on RTX 3090 vs a 64-core AMD Epy/Threadripper, even a couple of years ago, CuPy was a blast. I have a couple of recorded sessions with roughly identical slides/numbers:

  - San Francisco Python meetup in 2023: https://youtu.be/L9ELuU3GeNc?si=TOp8lARr7rP4cYaw
  - Yerevan PyData meetup in 2022: https://youtu.be/OxAKSVuW2Yk?si=5s_G0hm7FvFHXx0u
Of the more remarkable results:

  - 1000x sorting speedup switching from NumPy to CuPy.
  - 50x performance improvements switching from Pandas to CuDF on the New York Taxi Rides queries.
  - 20x GEMM speedup switching from NumPy to CuPy.
CuGraph is also definitely worth checking out. At that time, Intel wasn't in as bad of a position as they are now and was trying to push Modin, but the difference in performance and quality of implementation was mind-boggling.