Deep Learning on a Budget: $450 eGPU vs Google Colab

Colab is phenomenal for beginning deep learning, but how does it stack up against an eGPU + Ultrabook?

Jeremy DiBattista
Towards Data Science
5 min readJul 8, 2020

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Deep learning is expensive. GPUs are an absolute given for even the simplest of tasks. For people who want the best on-demand processing power, a new computer will cost upwards of $1500 and borrowing the…

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