Leading ML hardware becomes 40% more energy-efficient each year
By Robi Rahman
Historically, the energy efficiency of leading GPUs and TPUs has doubled every 2 years. In tensor-FP16 format, the most efficient accelerators are Meta’s MTIA, at up to 2.1 x 1012 FLOP/s per watt, and the NVIDIA H100, at up to 1.4 x 1012 FLOP/s per watt. The upcoming Blackwell series of processors may be even more efficient, depending on their power consumption.
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Robi Rahman (2024), "Leading ML hardware becomes 40% more energy-efficient each year". Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/data-insights/ml-hardware-energy-efficiency' [online resource]. Accessed 2 Apr 2026.
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@misc{epoch2024mlhardwareenergyefficiency,
title={Leading ML hardware becomes 40% more energy-efficient each year},
author={Robi Rahman},
year={2024},
url={https://epoch.ai/data-insights/ml-hardware-energy-efficiency},
note={Accessed: 2026-04-02}}
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Leading ML hardware becomes 40% more energy-efficient each year
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