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Correcting Intel's Deep Learning Benchmark Mistakes

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Re: Correcting Intel's Deep Learning Benchmark Mistakes

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> Titan uses four-year-old GPUs

... as does nearly every public cloud provider. I agree with most of the article, but you can't fault Intel for benchmarking the hardware that cloud providers are actually offering.

I'm not sure what exactly NVIDIA is doing with their Tesla product line but whatever it is, it's really restricting the availability of recent GPU hardware. Even Azure's GPU instances released this month are using the Kepler architecture from 2012. It's fully two generations out of date now, and that's sad.

Re: Correcting Intel's Deep Learning Benchmark Mistakes

#6
Ok, its officially the new new thing when corporate communications types are sniping at each other :-)

Once we start seeing press releases of products that are not available yet being shown to kill the existing competition we'll know that the hype train has officially gone super-product-sonic (that is a hype wave travelling faster than the product releases can support it).

Re: Correcting Intel's Deep Learning Benchmark Mistakes

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Why don't they provide a link to their testing methodology? They need to back up their claims (on both sides) with the actual configuration, all versions, and sample datasets for people to independently verify.

A docker container that runs their performance suite would be ideal.

Re: Correcting Intel's Deep Learning Benchmark Mistakes

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post #5

> Titan uses four-year-old GPUs ... as does nearly every public cloud provider. I agree with most of the article, but you can't fault Intel for benchmarking the hardware that cloud providers are actually offering. I'm not sure what exactly NVIDIA is doing with their Tesla product line but whatever it is, it's really restricting the availability of recent GPU hardware. Even Azure's GPU instances released this month ar…

I mean Intel is comparing their publicly unavailable product against NVIDIA's publicly available product. Now NVIDIA is replying with the benchmarks on their (as of yet) publicly unavailable product.

I think this blog post is fair game.

Re: Correcting Intel's Deep Learning Benchmark Mistakes

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post #6

Ok, its officially the new new thing when corporate communications types are sniping at each other :-) Once we start seeing press releases of products that are not available yet being shown to kill the existing competition we'll know that the hype train has officially gone super-product-sonic (that is a hype wave travelling faster than the product releases can support it).

Did you see the Opera vs Edge sniping a month or two ago? I suppose Opera is probably lot less corporate than Intel & Nvidia, of course...

Re: Correcting Intel's Deep Learning Benchmark Mistakes

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@imaleppert Agree getting the details on the testing would be helpful. I think NV was more pointing out that Intel were putting their latest against NV's oldest. It'd be like testing a RX480 against a GTX660. What's the use of that?

@modeless the new Azure instances have M60's or you can purchase a 1080 or new TitanX which are both available (although stock has been tight).

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-n-series-previe...

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