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A laptop GPU trained XGBoost 4.6-9x faster. Data prep was a draw.

I ran one feature-and-model recipe twice on the same fraud dataset: once on pandas with XGBoost on CPU, once on RAPIDS cuDF with XGBoost on CUDA. Model training was 4.6-9x faster on the GPU. Data preparation took about the same time on both. The numbers, and the limits of this measurement, are belo…

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  1. 2026-11-11 17:18 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    A laptop GPU trained XGBoost 4.6-9x faster. Data prep was a draw.

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