norcalnatv@alien.topB to HardwareEnglish · 11 months agoNvidia, Intel claim new LLM training speed records in new MLPerf 3.1 benchmarkventurebeat.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareCrabEqual963@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoHow much of this performance is just the usual cheap tricks like software optimizations and task specific hardware that doesn’t generalize? If it was an honest test of pure hardware muscle the AMD MI300 would come out on top.
minus-squareDuranteA@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoThe benchmarks test workloads people are actually interested in running. Whether good performance is achieved by good hardware, a good software stack, or both doesn’t matter to the vast majority of buyers.
How much of this performance is just the usual cheap tricks like software optimizations and task specific hardware that doesn’t generalize? If it was an honest test of pure hardware muscle the AMD MI300 would come out on top.
The benchmarks test workloads people are actually interested in running.
Whether good performance is achieved by good hardware, a good software stack, or both doesn’t matter to the vast majority of buyers.