🌱📊 Towards a sustainable use of GPUs in Graphics Research 📊🌱

Talk — SIGGRAPH 2025

Drawing of people raising their hand
Each circled dot represent a citation of a GPU in a paper, each colored segment represents a GPU. We note that 87% of GPUs reported in research papers (above the blue line) are available to less than 20% of the consumer-level user base at publication time.

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This page is currently under construction. It is meant to be ready by Sunday, 10 August 2025 when the SIGGRAPH Talk effectively takes place.

We surveyed 888 SIGGRAPH papers from 2018-2024 and gathered author-reported GPU models. By contextualizing the hardware reported in papers with available data of consumers' hardware, we demonstrate that research is consistently developed and tested on new high-end devices that do not reflect the state of the consumer-level market.

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This talk was conceived as a follow-up of a Birds of a Feather session from SIGGRAPH 2024: The Environmental Impact of Computer Graphics.

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You may cite this talk in future work; here is how we suggest to do it (when using BibTeX):

@inproceedings{yu25sustainable, title = {Towards a sustainable use of GPUs in Graphics Research}, author = {Yu, Emilie and Michel, Elie and Crespel, Octave and Paris, Axel and Hähnlein, Felix}, year = {2025}, isbn = {TODO}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, doi = {TODO}, booktitle = {ACM SIGGRAPH 2025 Talks}, articleno = {TODO}, numpages = {TODO}, location = {Vancouver, Canada}, series = {SIGGRAPH '25} }