GPUs
There has been a strong desire for a series of industry standard machine learning benchmarks, akin to the SPEC benchmarks for CPUs, in order to compare relative solutions. Over the past two years, MLCommons, an open engineering consortium, have been discussing and disclosing its MLPerf benchmarks for training and inference, with key consortium members releasing benchmark numbers as the series of tests gets refined. Today we see the full launch of MLPerf Inference v1.0, along with ~2000 results into the database. Alongside this launch, a new MLPerf Power Measurement technique to provide additional metadata on these test results is also being disclosed.
Intel’s Discrete GPU Era Begins: Intel Launches Iris Xe MAX For Entry-Level Laptops
Today may be Halloween, but what Intel is up to is no trick. Almost a year after showing off their alpha silicon, Intel’s first discrete GPU in over two...
119 by Ryan Smith on 10/31/2020
NVIDIA Launches Call of Duty Game Bundle for GeForce RTX 3080 & 3090 Cards
For those of you fortunate enough to be able to find one of NVIDIA’s new GeForce RTX 30 series video cards, the GPU maker has launched a new game...
45 by Ryan Smith on 10/30/2020
AMD Reveals The Radeon RX 6000 Series: RDNA2 Starts At The High-End, Coming November 18th
Preparing to close out a major month of announcements for AMD – and to open the door to the next era of architectures across the company – AMD wrapped...
276 by Ryan Smith on 10/28/2020
AMD's "Where Gaming Begins" Radeon Live Blog: Starts At Noon Eastern (16:00 UTC)
AMD's second and final product keynote of the month is taking place today, with an event AMD has dubbed "Where Gaming Begins". Hosted as always by AMD CEO Dr...
56 by Ryan Smith on 10/28/2020
AMD Reports Q3 2020 Earnings: Making Money and Setting Records Yet Again
As part of this morning’s announcement from AMD that the company would be buying FPGA maker Xilinx for $35 billion in stock, the company also released its Q3 earnings...
44 by Ryan Smith on 10/27/2020
Launching This Week: NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3070; 1440p Gaming For $499
It’s a couple of weeks later than originally planned, but this week NVIDIA is finally amping up the last of its high-end video card lineup with the release of...
38 by Ryan Smith on 10/27/2020
AMD in $35 Billion All-Stock Acquisition of Xilinx
After a couple of weeks of rumor, as well as a couple of years of hearsay, AMD has gone feet first into a full acquisition of FPGA manufacturer Xilinx...
100 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/27/2020
Intel: DG1 GPU Now Shipping, Xe-HPG DG2 GPU In Labs
Alongside today’s profitable-but-uneasy earnings report from Intel, the company’s earnings presentation also offered a short update on the status of their discrete GPUs. As of today, Intel’s DG1 GPU...
50 by Ryan Smith on 10/22/2020
Test Driving SPECviewperf 2020: A Look At The Latest In Workstation GPU Benchmarks
Over the years, the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation's SPECviewperf benchmark has become the industry standard for workstation GPU benchmarking. Owing to the fact that, unlike video games, there's little...
26 by Ganesh T S on 10/16/2020
More On NVIDIA Quadro Brand Retirement: Embracing the Graphics and Compute Overlap
Now that NVIDIA’s second GTC event of the year has wrapped up, we’ve finally gotten a chance to follow up with NVIDIA on last week’s announcement of their RTX...
34 by Ryan Smith on 10/13/2020
Imagination Announces B-Series GPU IP: Scaling up with Multi-GPU
It’s almost been a year since Imagination had announced its brand-new A-series GPU IP, a release which at the time the company called its most important in 15 years...
75 by Andrei Frumusanu on 10/13/2020
AMD Teases Radeon RX 6000 Card Performance Numbers: Aiming For 3080?
As part of today’s Zen 3 desktop CPU announcement from AMD, the company also threw in a quick teaser from the GPU side of the company in order to...
179 by Ryan Smith on 10/8/2020
Quadro No More? NVIDIA Announces Ampere-based RTX A6000 & A40 Video Cards For Pro Visualization
NVIDIA’s second GTC of 2020 is taking place this week, and as has quickly become a tradition, one of CEO Jensen Huang’s “kitchenside chats” kicks off the event. As...
29 by Ryan Smith on 10/5/2020
NVIDIA Delays GeForce RTX 3070 Launch to October 29th
In a brief news post made to their GeForce website last night, NVIDIA has announced that they have delayed the launch of the upcoming GeForce RTX 3070 video card...
105 by Ryan Smith on 10/2/2020_carousel.jpg)
What Products Use Intel 10nm? SuperFin and 10++ Demystified
For our audience that regularly keeps track of Intel’s product portfolio, it would be hard to miss that the naming strategy of Intel’s process node technologies is a bit...
143 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/25/2020
Oracle Announces Upcoming Cloud Compute Instances: Ice Lake and Milan, A100 and Altra
When the name “Oracle” is thrown around, hardware isn’t typically the first thing that comes to mind for most people. But, like other large tech companies that originally made...
18 by Ryan Smith on 9/22/2020
AMD Teases First Radeon RX 6000 Video Card Picture
In a very brief teaser, AMD this afternoon has released a picture of their first Radeon RX 6000 video card. No further details about the card are given, but based...
97 by Ryan Smith on 9/14/2020
AMD Preps Second Round of HPC System Donations For COVID-19 Research
When things aren’t blowing up or burning down as of late, there’s still the matter of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While the first generation of vaccines move carefully closer...
19 by Ryan Smith on 9/14/2020
It’s Official: NVIDIA To Acquire Arm For $40 Billion
Following a number of rumors and leaks, NVIDIA this evening announced that it is buying Arm Limited for $40 billion. The cash and stock deal will see NVIDIA buy...
141 by Ryan Smith on 9/13/2020
AMD Announces Ryzen "Zen 3" and Radeon "RDNA2" Presentations for October: A New Journey Begins
AMD today has announced that they will be making a pair of consumer product presentations in October. The chipmaker, who has been fairly quiet since the spring, will be...
145 by Ryan Smith on 9/9/2020
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