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. 2024 May 1;11(5):231606. doi: 10.1098/rsos.231606

Table 1.

Comparison between spiking and non-spiking forward-pass energy consumption and memory usage.

architecture energy architecture energy
dense Loihi (nJ) GPU (nJ) LSTM Loihi (nJ) GPU (nJ)
FC1 6.9e-2 0.61 LSTM1 0.28 2.5
FC2 1.3 160 LSTM2 11 2.5e3
FC3 1.3 160 LSTM3 10 2.5e3
FC4 1.2 160 FC1 2.6 630
FC5 0.3 39 FC2 0.21 39
total energy 4.25 512 total energy 24 5.7e3
reduction ×120 reduction factor ×238
synaptic memory 0.86 MB synaptic memory 9.5 MB