SOEN Learning Trail / energy model
SOEN vs GPU: Intelligence per Watt
Explore synaptic operations per second under cryogenic cooling and wall-plug power budgets.
An interactive model comparing effective synaptic operations per second deliverable at a fixed wall-plug power by superconducting optoelectronic networks versus conventional GPU farms. Sliders set the total power budget, the SOEN device energy per synaptic operation, the 4 K cooling overhead, and the GPU effective energy per synaptic operation. Outputs show synaptic-ops-per-second for each on a log scale, the ratio, human-brain equivalents, and how the SOEN power budget splits between compute, cooling, and support.
1.00 GW
20 aJ
1000×
2.0 pJ
Synaptic operations per second (log scale, 10¹⁸–10²⁴)
SOEN
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GPU farm
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Efficiency edge
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SOEN ≈ brains
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GPU ≈ brains
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Where the SOEN power budget goes
compute —
cooling —
support —