Nvidia’s Latest Breakthroughs in AI Performance
Nvidia has once again demonstrated its prowess in the field of artificial intelligence by submitting results for six out of the seven benchmarks of the MLPerf suite. The latest results showcase the remarkable performance of the Llama 2 70B model from Meta, with Nvidia’s Hopper GPU stealing the spotlight with a three-fold improvement in performance on GPT-J over the last six months.
The TensorRT-LLM inference compiler plays a crucial role in optimizing various aspects of the inference pipeline. It focuses on enhancing in-flight sequence batching, KV Cache optimizations, attention optimizations, multi-GPU parallelism, and FP8 quantization. The introduction of additional HBM memory on the H200 has significantly boosted the benefits of the Key Value Cache optimization, leading to even more impressive results.
Intel also made significant strides in the AI landscape by submitting results for the Gaudi2 and the 5th Gen Xeon CPU. These submissions have shown that Intel’s offerings deliver comparable or even better performance per dollar for Gen AI. Particularly noteworthy is the 5th Gen Xeon’s achievement of increasing AI inference performance by over 40%.
MLCommons, a key player in the industry, has garnered strong support. However, the lack of participation from a wide range of industry players has somewhat diminished the overall marketing value of the initiative.
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