Google Colab remote GPUs vs. mobile GPU performance

Two experiments to test differences in training times between free Colab GPUs and mobile/desktop GPUs.

GPUs tested

• GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile (local notebook)
• GeForce GTX 1060 Desktop (local desktop)
• GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile (local notebook)
• Tesla P4 (Colab free)
• Tesla K80 (Colab free)
• Telsa T4 (Colab free)
• Tesla P100 (Colab free)

Experiment no. 1 definition

• task: image generation using convolutional GAN
• dataset: MNIST
• framework used: PyTorch
• 50 epochs
• experiment notebook

Experiment no. 1 model results

Sample of generated images and losses:

Experiment no. 1 training times comparison

Experiment no. 2 definition

• task: image classification using Resnet-18
• dataset: CIFAR-100
• framework used: PyTorch
• 10 epochs
• experiment notebook

Experiment no. 2 model results

Losses and accuracy:

Experiment no. 2 training times comparison