Comment by zamalek

2 days ago

What's the deal with memory? Does it use the system RAM? I've been considering a cluster for local inference.

The data has to go across PCI / USB to get to the internal (tiny) SRAM. It's not a good choice for clustering, you should just use a GPU for that.

Dont know, sorry. But the performance is not that awesome, but works well enough for my setup doing realtime object detection with a few cameras.

My main reason for getting one was power efficency compared to a traditional GPU for this task.

  • I have a Coral M.2 and an Intel Xe iGPU on the same machine. Both passthrough to VM, Proxmox, iGPU with SR-IOV. On Proxmox I can see power usage of one camera for SR-IOV device utilizing intel_gpu_top: less than 0.1W.

    • iGPU for detection? Whats the performance on that?

      Sounds cool but for me that would mean more upgrades for that server.

      Coral runs on 0.5 watts , which is way less than the geforce 1080 i used before.

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