The 2012 neural network that changed computer vision was trained on two gaming graphics cards.

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AlexNet won the 2012 ImageNet challenge by a large margin. It was trained on two NVIDIA GTX 580 GPUs — consumer gaming cards — helping start the move of AI onto graphics chips.

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