We almost bought a second GPU for an OCR pipeline. Optimizing the existing one gave 15x instead. How often is “buy more hardware” the wrong fix?
a custom multi-language OCR pipeline on a single GPU was choking as load grew (~4 detections/sec, 3s+ tail latency). The plan was a second GPU. Instead we optimized serving on the same card and got 55–125/s with ~100ms tail latency, and memory use actually dropped. I can’t share the specifics since…
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- 2026-10-25 14:04 · r/learnmachinelearning
We almost bought a second GPU for an OCR pipeline. Optimizing the existing one gave 15x instead. How often is “buy more hardware” the wrong fix? - 2026-10-25 14:03 · r/computervision
We almost bought a second GPU for an OCR pipeline. Optimizing the existing one gave 15x instead. How often is “buy more hardware” the wrong fix?