The benchmarks for the other GPUs were across a pretty wide range of hardware. The GTX 1060, for example, is in a REALLY old Xeon that doesn't even support AVX...
I have hardware arriving this week that I purchased from eBay for $320 with shipping and tax - Dell Precision with i7-7700, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD[0] and GTX 1070[1]. Seems to be the current "best bang for the buck" if you don't have any of this stuff just sitting around.
The idea is because Willow devices are so cost-effective you can buy this hardware to host WIS, HA, other homelab stuff, etc and still come out ahead (even with power) compared to Raspberry Pi:
Qty 5 Willows - $270 with power supplies (support wake word, far-field audio, LCD display, speaker, mics, etc)
WIS hardware - $320 (or less - it's up to you!)
Total cost: $590
Six Raspberry Pis (no wake word, poor audio quality, unusably slow, cumbersome, very DIY):
$720 (retail kit with board, SD, LCD display, mic array, speaker, enclosure). MSRP - can't actually be purchased for that.
I expect this hardware to do well (returning well below 500ms for Willow speech locally with excellent quality) and I'll be documenting the power consumption optimization work I'm doing over the weekend.
Thanks! We believe we have a practical, viable approach to provide an Alexa equivalent (or better) experience with self-hosted privacy and control. Not to mention all of the other stuff you can do with WIS :).
The not-so-fancy: it's a 10 year old Xeon...
The benchmarks for the other GPUs were across a pretty wide range of hardware. The GTX 1060, for example, is in a REALLY old Xeon that doesn't even support AVX...
I have hardware arriving this week that I purchased from eBay for $320 with shipping and tax - Dell Precision with i7-7700, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD[0] and GTX 1070[1]. Seems to be the current "best bang for the buck" if you don't have any of this stuff just sitting around.
The idea is because Willow devices are so cost-effective you can buy this hardware to host WIS, HA, other homelab stuff, etc and still come out ahead (even with power) compared to Raspberry Pi:
Qty 5 Willows - $270 with power supplies (support wake word, far-field audio, LCD display, speaker, mics, etc)
WIS hardware - $320 (or less - it's up to you!)
Total cost: $590
Six Raspberry Pis (no wake word, poor audio quality, unusably slow, cumbersome, very DIY):
$720 (retail kit with board, SD, LCD display, mic array, speaker, enclosure). MSRP - can't actually be purchased for that.
I expect this hardware to do well (returning well below 500ms for Willow speech locally with excellent quality) and I'll be documenting the power consumption optimization work I'm doing over the weekend.
[0] - https://www.ebay.com/itm/234908676168
[1] - https://www.ebay.com/itm/115536328587