{"id":101708,"date":"2016-08-19T12:31:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T10:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=101708"},"modified":"2016-08-19T12:32:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T10:32:38","slug":"nvidia-and-intels-ai-arms-race-turns-nasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/101708-nvidia-and-intels-ai-arms-race-turns-nasty","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia and Intel&#8217;s AI arms race turns nasty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia has just fired the first shots against Intel in a blog post on its official site.<\/p>\n<p>The blog post, titled <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/16\/correcting-some-mistakes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Correcting Intel\u2019s Deep Learning Benchmark Mistakes<\/a><\/strong> claims that Intel\u00a0was using outdated benchmarks when showing off its new\u00a0Knights Landing Xeon Phi processors.<\/p>\n<p>In particular Nvidia took issue with Intel&#8217;s claims that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Xeon Phi is 2.3 times faster in training than GPUs.<\/li>\n<li>Xeon Phi offers 38 per cent better scaling than GPUs across nodes.<\/li>\n<li>Xeon Phi delivers 50 times scaling on 128 nodes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nvidia did finish the post by welcoming the Intel to the deep learning\u00a0market but saying that they &#8220;should get their facts straight&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How much should we be paying for games?\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/101636-how-much-should-we-be-paying-for-games.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How much should we be paying for games?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to South Africa\u2019s first VR arcade is now open\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101686-south-africas-first-vr-arcade-is-now-open.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">South Africa\u2019s first VR arcade is now open<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Overwatch could be getting a free-to-play mode\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101680-overwatch-could-be-getting-a-free-to-play-mode.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Overwatch could be getting a free-to-play mode<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia has been quick to call out Intel on its mistakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":101716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31,14338,7702,1727,45],"class_list":["post-101708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-benchmark","tag-graphics","tag-intel","tag-nvidia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101718,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101708\/revisions\/101718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}