Many game lovers quite naturally puzzled the NVIDIA CEO's statement about a hundredfold difference in the speed level between Kepler and Volta - especially since we do not see any game versions of the last processor on the horizon. It should be once again explained that the founder of the company simply operated on performance indicators in the field of computing, but not games. I must say that he subsequently returned to this topic during the speech at the quarterly reporting conference.
According to NVIDIA CEO , the complexity of neural networks almost doubles every year. Graphical processors of the corresponding brand increase their productivity almost three times every year. In fact, at a four-year interval between Kepler and Volta, the company managed to achieve a hundredfold difference precisely at the expense of such rates of productivity increase in the calculations. To be more precise, it was necessary to increase it annually by 3.16 times on average. As the head of NVIDIA assures, that's exactly what happened.
The accuracy of calculations in artificial intelligence systems is doubled every year. This applies to both pattern recognition and speech recognition. Algorithms are being improved, and this sphere is developing very rapidly. It is interesting that the head of the company considers the system of transport autopilot one of the most important spheres of application of artificial intelligence. It is leadership in this area, according to the founder of NVIDIA, that will help the company "realize the opportunity that is given once in a lifetime." NVIDIA has the opportunity to significantly influence the future of this planet.