Whether you’re a scientist working on climate modeling, an engineer designing new products, or a data analyst making sense of large datasets, NVIDIA’s solutions can help you do your life’s work better and more efficiently.
Use this simple estimator to compare the costs and energy consumption of a workload running on an x86 CPU-based server versus an NVIDIA GPU server. You’ll see:
- The annual energy consumption and cost savings for each system at equal throughput
- Estimates of CO2 equivalent savings, represented by energy savings
To use it, at a minimum you’ll need to know the type of GPU, the number of GPUs, the application and model of interest.
If you’d like to estimate the savings for an application not in our list, you’ll need to calculate “NRF”. NRF is the number of CPU-only servers replaced by a single GPU-accelerated server. Alternatively, NRF is the number of CPU servers required to provide equivalent throughput to a single GPU server. NRF will vary by application.
For additional comparisons, see the AI and high-performance computing (HPC) performance pages for Training, Inference, and HPC.