It seems as if NVidia takes GPU computing serious. The
recently presented Tesla T4 card, a successor to M4 and
P4 (some say they’re graphics cards but that’s only half
the truth) seem to offer tremendous processing power!

Especially for cryptocoin mining this GPU-based card might be interesting as they offer immense calculation power with only 75W power demand. This means that the cards don’t rely on a separate power connector but can be powered with the PCIe-slot alone.

NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPU Specifications

Impressive. However there’s no word spoken about the price, the slides may promise a lot of bang for the buck and who knows… maybe it’ll bring back “classic” GPU cards into more humane price regions as the current RTX models start at 900 US$ and end up to 1800US$. And the 1800 US$ model isn’t a RTX Titan or whatever the card would be named. It’s just a RTX 2080Ti…

The Turing based NVIDIA Tesla T4 graphics card is aimed at inference acceleration markets. It is designed to give deep learning performance a massive boost over its predecessors and is also going to deliver immense performance for AI video applications. NVIDIA’s own estimate put the graphics card at twice as fast in video processing, allowing users to decode up to 38(!) full-HD video streams at the same time which just wasn’t possible on the previous generation.

Jensen Huang, at the GTC 2018 Japan keynote presenting the Tesla T4

Product shot of the Tesla T4

Performance chart

Turing Tensor Cores scheme

There’s no price tag available yet nor when it’ll become in reasonable numbers. But if they get available by then, maybe we will see a sligt change in pricing for the RTX GPU series. I would greatly anticipate a price slide downwards!