On 15-11-17 10:51, Petri Pitkanen wrote: > I think the intereseting question left now is: How strong GO-program one > can have in normal Laptop? TPU and GPU are fine for showing what can be > done but as practical tool for a go player the bot has to run something > people can afford. And can buy from shop? From KGS 100 list I can spot > 8d bots but I do not know how big HW they are using. > > Could todays laptop with best possible SW beat best humans?
What does "best possible SW" mean? The one that isn't written yet? :-) Zero was reportedly very strong with 4 TPU. If we say 1 TPU = 1 GTX 1080 Ti the Elo loss from the slowdown from 4 to 1 would still make it far stronger than the best humans. As for things that are available right now: The latest Zen is very strong even without a GPU. My bot was 8d on KGS with a GTX 1080 Ti and a Ryzen 1700 (roughly ~1000 USD hardware). I don't run on KGS anymore but people from Tygem told me it is equal to lower ranked pros there, on a smaller system. You can get very strong software right now, but nothing will change the fact that better hardware always helps. The difference between a laptop and a desktop with a real GPU will always be there. -- GCP _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
