NVIDIA offers several GPU product lines designed for data centers, High Performance Computing (HPC), and AI inference. A majority of these GPUs are built on either Ada, Ampere, Hopper, or the Blackwell architecture.
In this blog, we compare NVIDIA Ada vs Ampere vs Hopper vs Blackwell, highlighting their significance for handling modern AI and ML workloads.
Deep Dive Into GPU Architecture
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is considered the backbone of HPC, AI, ML, and other compute-intensive and graphics-intensive workloads. Many enterprises also leverage the potential of GPU acceleration and cloud infrastructure by using high-performance computing with cloud GPUs.
GPUs, cloud GPUs in particular, help deliver parallel computing power, unmatched scale, high reliability, and better overall resource utilization. TFLOPS, power efficiency, GPU memory capacity (vRAM), precision format support, Tensor core performance, etc. are some of the important parameters that need to be considered when choosing the ideal GPU.
Now that we’ve explored the high-level nuances of GPUs, let’s deep dive into some of the popular NVIDIA GPU architectures that are instrumental in handling large-scale AI/ML workloads.
NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPU Architecture Overview
The Ada Lovelace architecture is the successor to the Ampere generation of GPUs from NVIDIA. Ada Lovelace is the third-generation of ray-tracing focused GPU designs that are primarily designed for usage in professional graphics, real-time ray tracing, AI, and delivering high compute performance.
Ada Lovelace is built on the TSMC 4N process, owing to which it offers higher density, improved frequency characteristics, and better energy efficiency. Most of the performance gains come from its redesigned Streaming Multiprocessor (SM). Each SM integrates CUDA cores, Tensor Cores, and RT Cores that are responsible for accelerating compute, AI, and efficiently handling ray-tracing workloads.
Here are some of the major enhancements in the GPUs built on the Ada Lovelace architecture:
Fourth-Generation Tensor Cores
The fourth-generation Tensor cores in the Ada Lovelace increase the throughput by up to 5x in comparison to its predecessors. The newly-introduced FP8 Transformer Engine (TE) delivers major improvements in the low precision compute in both E4M3 and E5M2 formats.
Along with this, the Tensor cores also enhance throughput in computations involving formats like BF16, FP16, TF32, INT8, and INT4. Mixed-precision workflows are also optimised, as there is no overhead of conversions! The Tensor cores in the Ada Lovelace help with FP8 precision and structured sparsity, thereby resulting in 4x higher inference performance over the previous generation.
The reduction in the memory pressure due to the FP8 precision helps in acceleration of the AI throughput when compared to the larger precisions (i.e., FP16, FP32, etc.).
Third-Generation RT Cores and Shader Execution Reordering (SER)
The Shader Execution Reordering (SER), a new GPU scheduling technology was also introduced in the Ada Lovelace architecture. In a nutshell, the SER improves the efficiency of shader execution, particularly with workloads that experience significant thread divergence.
RT cores in Ada Lovelace in combination with SER dynamically reorder the inefficient workloads, thereby improving the shader performance. Due to this, the third-generation RT cores in the Ada Lovelace architecture are capable of delivering up to 2x ray-tracing performance over the previous generation.
Deep Learning Super Sampling 3 (DLSS 3)
Next-generation AI-powered rendering technology called Deep Learning Super Sampling 3 (DLSS 3) was also introduced in the Ada Lovelace architecture. Unlike traditional upscaling that just improves image quality, DLSS 3 makes use of the fourth-generation tensor cores and Optical Flow Accelerator (OFA) for generating entirely new high-quality frames.
OFA is a hardware accelerator for computing optical flow and stereo disparity between the frames. Use cases involving object detection and tracking use optical flow, whereas stereo disparity is used in depth estimation. DLSS 3 significantly boosts frame rates in supported games and applications.
Advanced Video and Vision AI Acceleration
Video and vision AI acceleration in Ada Lovelace architecture is catalyzed by new eight-generation NVIDIA Encoders (NVENC) with AV1 encoding. The optimized AVI1 encoder stack is ~40 percent more efficient in comparison to the H.264 encoders.
The improved compression efficiency of the AV1 results in high visual quality at much lower bitrates. Video transcoding, streaming, video conferencing, AR/VR, and vision AI are some of the prominent use cases that significantly benefit from the new AV1 stack.
Lastly, creators can harness this advantage as they can stream content at 1080p to output a 1440p stream without increasing bitrate or compromising on the visual quality!
The NVIDIA L40 and NVIDIA L40S are Ada Lovelace data-center GPUs that are primarily designed to cater to AI inference and handling multi-modal workloads. On the other hand, the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generationis an Ada Lovelace-based workstation GPU built for AI development, fine-tuning, inference, and visualization.
NVIDIA Ampere GPU Architecture Overview
The NVIDIA Ampere architecture, successor to the Turing GPU architecture, underpins GPUs such as the A100, which integrates around 54 billion transistors. Ampere-based GPUs deliver faster performance for HPC, AI, and data analytics workloads.
The GPU features third-generation Tensor Cores and TF32 precision, which provide massive gains in deep learning performance without code changes. The Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) in the Ampere architecture improves efficiency and scalability for both cloud and enterprise workloads.
Here are some of the major enhancements in the GPUs built on the Ampere architecture:
Fourth-Generation Tensor Cores and Structural Sparsity
The fourth-generation Tensor cores in the Ada Lovelace increase the throughput by up to 5x in comparison to its predecessors. The newly-introduced FP8 Transformer Engine (TE) delivers major improvements in the low precision compute in both E4M3 and E5M2 formats.
The Tensor Float 32 (TF32) and Floating Point 64 (FP64) formats introduced in the Ampere architecture enable faster training and extend the potential of the Tensor cores to HPC. The TF32 format works very much similar to the FP32 format due to which it requires minimal (to no) code changes. The native acceleration for sparsity lets the structured sparse matrices deliver up to 2x higher throughput.
Second-Generation RT Cores
Concurrent ray tracing and shading, enabled by the second-generation RT cores in the Ampere architecture, accelerate ray tracing, boost frame rates, and help in executing the graphics workloads in parallel. Use cases related to movie-content rendering, architectural design evaluations, and virtual product design prototypes benefit enormously from the RT cores.
Hardware support for ray traced motion, acceleration of ray triangle intersection, and motion blur calculations make GPUs based on the Ampere architecture ideal for advanced real time graphics, cinematic rendering, and design workflows.
Third-Generation NVLink
Faster data sharing across multiple GPUs is made possible by the third-generation NVLink in the Ampere architecture. As stated in the official documentation, GPU-to-GPU bandwidth is nearly doubled to 600 GB/s, almost 10x higher in comparison to PCIe Gen4.
The latest generation of NVIDIA NVSwitch combined with third generation NVLink delivers higher scalability for HPC and AI workloads.
Multi-Instance GPU (MIG)
As every application serves different purposes, there is a possibility that only a few applications (or workloads) leverage the performance offered by a full GPU. This is where the Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) feature can be handy, as it allows different workloads to efficiently share the GPU.
With MIG, a single GPU is partitioned into multiple logical GPU instances, where each GPU instance operates in hardware-isolation and has its dedicated portions of high bandwidth memory, cache, and compute resources. MIG is supported on the A100 and A30 GPUs that are based on the Ampere architecture.
NVIDIA A100, NVIDIA RTX A6000, and NVIDIA A30 are some of the popular Ampere-based GPUs that cater to a wide range of use cases.
NVIDIA Hopper GPU Architecture Overview
Like the Ada Lovelace architecture, the Hopper architecture is also built with the TSMC 4N process. It features close to 80 billion transistors for supporting advanced AI and HPC capabilities.
Here are some of the major enhancements in the GPUs built on the Hopper architecture:
Fourth-Generation Tensor Cores
The native FP8 precision support in the fourth-generation Tensor cores help with increased throughput for training and inference of large scale models. The Tensor cores work in conjunction with the Transformer Engine (TE) for managing precision, preserving accuracy, and accelerating the training of AI models.
Transformer Engine (TE)
The native FP8 precision support was first introduced in the Hopper architecture. The mixed FP8 and FP16 precisions supported by the advanced Tensor Core technology with Transformer Engine (TE) accelerates AI calculations by a huge margin.
Hopper significantly increases FLOPS for TF32, FP64, FP16, and INT8 workloads in comparison to the previous generation. The TE further optimizes the precision for transformer-based models.
Second-Generation MIG and Confidential Computing
The Hopper architecture enhances MIG by enabling multi-tenant, multi-user configurations in virtualized environments with up to seven securely isolated GPU instances using confidential computing.
Each virtualized instance is isolated at both hypervisor and hardware level. There are dedicated video decoders for each MIG instance, each of which deliver high-throughput Intelligent Video Analytics (IVA) on a shared infrastructure.
Hopper DPX Instructions
NVIDIA Hopper GPU Dynamic Programming X (DPX) instructions leverage the benefits of Dynamic Programming (DP) algorithms by accelerating common DP operations directly in the hardware.
As stated in the official documentation, DP algorithms are accelerated by up to 40x compared to the traditional dual-socket CPU-only servers by the DPX instructions.
NVIDIA Blackwell GPU Architecture Overview
The NVIDIA Blackwell GPU family is the successor to the popular Hopper architecture. Blackwell is built on the innovations that were introduced in Hopper, further advancing TE, support for low-precision formats, and delivering next-generation Tensor Cores and memory optimizations to enable high-performance for Gen-AI workloads.
Here are some of the major enhancements in the GPUs built on the Blackwell architecture:
Second-Generation Transformer Engine
The second-generation TE makes use of a custom NVIDIA Blackwell Tensor Core technology that is combined with NVIDIA Tensor-RT LLM and NeMo frameworks. This helps in accelerating training and inference of LLMs and MoE models.
Apart from increased memory bandwidth, a technique named micro-tensor scaling helps optimize the performance and accuracy thereby enabling 4 bit FP4 inference and training for suitable workloads.
Second-Generation Transformer Engine
The second-generation TE makes use of a custom NVIDIA Blackwell Tensor Core technology that is combined with NVIDIA Tensor-RT LLM and NeMo frameworks. This helps in accelerating training and inference of LLMs and MoE models.
Apart from increased memory bandwidth, a technique named micro-tensor scaling helps optimize the performance and accuracy thereby enabling 4 bit FP4 AI.
Confidential Computing and Secure AI
Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) is now extended to GPUs with the introduction of Confidential Computing in the Blackwell architecture. It helps protect sensitive data and realize confidential AI training.
NVIDIA Blackwell is the first TEE-I/O capable GPU that offers robust and secure high-performant solutions for handling LLMs.
Decompression Engine
The Decompression Engine in NVIDIA Blackwell accelerates data processing by streaming compressed data over the high-speed, bidirectional Grace-Blackwell interconnect (up to ~900 GB/s aggregate bandwidth). This lets Blackwell efficiently access large datasets held in Grace CPU memory or GPU memory without becoming I/O bound.
Fifth-Generation NVLink and NVLink Switch
The fifth-generation NVLink interconnect in Blackwell can help in scaling up to 576 GPUs for achieving accelerated performance of large AI models with trillions of parameters.
Blackwell GPUs also use 18 NVLink connections to provide an 1.8TB/s interconnect. Model parallelism across multiple servers is possible with the NVLink Switch, ensuring seamless and high-performance scaling of AI models.
Apart from this, Blackwell also has a dedicated Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) Engine that helps with AI-driven predictive management, advanced fault detection, and proactive monitoring and observability.
What is AI Model Benchmarking?
AI model benchmarking is the process of evaluating the performance of an AI model under defined conditions. The performance is evaluated and compared using standardized datasets, metrics, and tasks. AI benchmarking is instrumental in verifying the scalability, reliability, and cost in real-world scenarios.
Let’s consider a real-time fraud detection use case where an ML model is deployed by the bank for detecting fraudulent card transactions in real-time. Here speed, performance, and accuracy of the model is important so that relevant actions can be taken at the earliest.
The first step to benchmarking would be to evaluate the right GPU architecture (i.e., Ada, Ampere, Hopper, Blackwell) that meets the technical requirements. Benchmarking must also include testing against single-GPU and multi-GPU configurations. Here is a gist of the metrics collected for the banking AI benchmarking:
| Category | Metric | Why it matters in Banking |
| Performance | Inference latency (p50, p95, p99) | Ensures real-time transaction approval without customer delays |
| Performance | Transactions per second | Defines peak throughput during high-traffic banking periods |
| Quality | Precision / Recall (F1-score) | Balances fraud detection accuracy and false declines |
| Quality | False positive rate | Directly impacts customer trust and support costs |
| Efficiency | GPU utilization | Shows how effectively the hardware is used |
| Efficiency | Cost per million transactions | Enables clear cost comparison across GPU architectures |
| Stability | Latency variance under peak load | Ensures consistent performance during traffic spikes |
| Stability | Error rate during traffic spikes | Critical for reliability and regulatory compliance |
The cumulative benchmarking score helps banks select the best-suited GPU architecture by combining performance, quality, efficiency, and stability into a workload-aware evaluation.
Since every business case is unique, it is important to use domain-specific eval frameworks when benchmarking and evaluating AI models. At the same time, the frameworks must be refreshed regularly and reflect actual deployment conditions, not just in controlled benchmark environments.
In a nutshell, AI model benchmarking becomes a critical foundation for choosing the right architecture, optimizing workloads, and controlling costs in modern AI systems.
How to Benchmark Cloud GPUs for AI/ML
Whether your AI/ML workloads are running on a local GPU infrastructure or a cloud GPU infrastructure, benchmarking GPUs effectively helps in choosing the ideal GPU infrastructure that provides clear visibility into performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and more.
Benchmarking AI workloads involves evaluating the performance of the GPUs across various metrics. The major ones are mentioned below:
Define Workload Requirements
The very first step to AI benchmarking is clearly defining whether the benchmarking tasks are performed for model training, fine-tuning of the AI model, or AI inference (e.g., real-time image recognition).
Along with providing use case clarity, you also need to determine the acceptable latency, scalability, power efficiency, and throughput levels based on application requirements. The benchmarks should reflect the real production conditions instead of idealized or hypothetical scenarios.
Specify Model Architecture and Size
The model parameter count, attention mechanism, transformer depth, and use of MoE can have a significant impact on the benchmarking results.
Attention is a mechanism used in modern neural networks that lets the model focus on certain parts of the input data, rather than treating every part of the input data with equal importance. Self-attention allows the AI model to generate relation between tokens within a sentence, thereby helping it understand context in a much better way!
Select Benchmarking Tools
Benchmarking tools such as NVIDIA’s Perf Analyzer or GenAI-Perf should be leveraged for measuring latency, throughput, and token‑level metrics for Gen-AI models. Results derived from benchmarking help in identifying performance bottlenecks and optimization opportunities in the said AI model.
On the other hand, MLPerf Benchmarks can be used for standardized comparisons across different hardware platforms and AI/ML frameworks.
Detail The GPU Configuration
It goes without saying that the GPU configuration has a major impact on the AI benchmarking, particularly in areas related to computational power, interconnect capabilities, and memory specifications.
Some of the key GPU parameters are mentioned below:
- vRAM (Video RAM) Capacity: The dedicated memory on the GPU (i.e., vRAM)is used for loading the datasets and models that can span up to billions of parameters. There is a direct co-relation between memory size, training efficiency, and throughput since higher the memory, the more room it provides to maximize the batch size.
- Memory Bandwidth: This is usually measured in GB/s (or TB/s) and determines how fast the data can move in or out of the GPU’s memory.
| NVIDIA Architecture | Example GPUs | Memory Bandwidth (Approx) |
| Ada Lovelace | RTX 4090, RTX 6000 Ada | ~0.96–1.0 TB/s |
| Ampere | A100 (SXM) | ~2.0 TB/s |
| Hopper | H100, H200 | ~3.2–4.8 TB/s |
| Blackwell | B200 | Up to ~8.0 TB/s |
Although Blackwell offers the highest memory bandwidth, the best GPU choice ultimately depends on cost, workload requirements, and other practical factors.
- Interconnect Technology: The communication speed in multi-GPU systems plays a critical role in benchmarking AI workloads. Technologies like NVLink, NVLink Switch, InfiBand, etc. help in minimizing the idle time of the GPUs especially in scenarios where the GPUs are waiting for parameters from the peer GPUs.
- Floating-Point Performance: Mathematical operations form the core of neural network computations. AI workloads benefit significantly from higher TOPS/TFLOPS, especially with precisions like FP32, FP16, BF16, INT8, and FP8 that are majorly used in mixed-precision training and inference.
- Software Stack and Optimizations: The number and generation of specialized cores (Tensor Cores, CUDA Cores) designed to accelerate matrix multiplication directly affect AI performance. Framework versions, compiler flags, GPU optimized frameworks for AI like TensorRT, DeepSend, etc. can also change the benchmark outcomes.
- Scalability and Parallelism: The performance of the respective AI model can be scaled when run across multiple (or parallel) GPUs (or nodes). It is essential to look at aspects like data parallelism, model parallelism, and pipeline parallelism when benchmarking the performance.
- Power Efficiency: GPU performance and power efficiency go hand-in-hand as GPUs consume power (in watts) relative to its performance. Hence, consider power efficiency when benchmarking AI workloads since it affects operating costs and GPU thermal management.
Deep-diving into the metrics mentioned above would help in identifying performance bottlenecks and optimizing model deployment so that an informed decision can be taken for selecting the ideal GPU configuration for handling specific AI/ML workloads.
End-to-End Benchmarking Tools for AI Training and Inference
Comparing Ada, Ampere, Hopper, and Blackwell architecture requires benchmarks that help in evaluating their performance and architectural behavior. This also includes benchmarking on the lines of model training, AI inference, power efficiency and kernel execution.
Here is a list of shortlisted tools that are widely adopted in production and help in highlighting improvements in the GPUs.
1. MLPerf
The first benchmark that needs to be examined is the inference speed. It determines how swiftly the model processes the requests and generates responses. The inference speed has an overall impact on the operational costs and the end-user experience.
MLPerf is an open, industry-standard benchmark suite designed to measure the performance of ML systems. It covers both training and inference workloads. Since MLPerf has strict rules on data sets, model architectures, etc. its results ensure that fair comparisons are performed across different GPU architectures.
Scaling efficiency, mixed-precision performance, and accelerator utilization are some of the highlights provided by the MLPerf benchmark tests. These results are useful for comparing the performance of Ada, Ampere, Hopper, and Blackwell GPUs when they are subjected to identical AI workloads.
MLPerf benchmarks are installed and executed using containerized workflows (e.g., Docker) to ensure consistency and reproducibility. You can refer to the MLPerf Training and MLPerf Inference repositories for more information.
Shown below is a simple Python example that demonstrates an MLPerf-style single-GPU inference microbenchmark (not a full MLPerf harness):
import time
import torch
from torchvision import models
# Load a representative MLPerf-style model
model = models.resnet50(pretrained=True).cuda()
model.eval()
# Create a dummy input tensor
input_tensor = torch.randn(1, 3, 224, 224).cuda()
# Warm-up runs
for _ in range(10):
_ = model(input_tensor)
# Measure inference latency
iterations = 100
start_time = time.time()
with torch.no_grad():
for _ in range(iterations):
_ = model(input_tensor)
end_time = time.time()
avg_latency_ms = ((end_time - start_time) / iterations) * 1000
print(f"Average inference latency: {avg_latency_ms:.2f} ms") In the above MLPerf sample, a ResNet-50 model is loaded and moved to the GPU for inference execution. A dummy input tensor simulates an MLPerf-style inference workload.
Warm-up iterations ensure that kernel initialization and memory setup do not affect the measurement.
The script finally measures average inference latency over multiple runs, providing an overall view of GPU execution performance.
MLPerf training and inference benchmarks reveal differences in throughput, latency, and scalability across Ada, Ampere, Hopper, and Blackwell architectures. This helps teams make an informed decision to choose the GPU best-suited to meet the demands of the specific AI workloads.
2. fmPerf
fmPerf (foundation model performance) is a Python-based open-source benchmarking tool for LLM serving frameworks. The source code of fpmPerf is hosted on GitHub. As stated in the official documentation, the tool can be used for evaluating performance and energy efficiency of Text Generation Interface (TGI) and vLLM Inference servers.
At the architectural level, fmPerf uses a Python module for defining and orchestrating experiments on K8s or OpenShift clusters. Inference services are deployed as Kubernetes Deployments and Services and load tests are run through K8s jobs using a Python-based load generator.
Figure 1: Architecture of fmPerf framework [Image Source]
Shown below is a simple example that deep-dives into the usage of fmPerf for deploying an inference server on K8s and running a basic laid test against it.
from fmperf.k8s import InferenceServer
from fmperf.loadgen import LoadGen
def run_fmperf_benchmark():
# Step 1. Deploy inference server
server = InferenceServer(
name="resnet-inference",
image="my-registry/resnet-inference:latest",
replicas=1,
container_port=8080,
namespace="default"
)
server.deploy()
# Step 2. Run load test
loadgen = LoadGen(
service_name="resnet-inference",
namespace="default",
duration_seconds=60,
requests_per_second=50
)
results = loadgen.run()
# Step 3. Collect and print metrics
print(f"Throughput: {results.throughput} req/s")
print(f"Average Latency: {results.latency_avg} ms")
print(f"P95 Latency: {results.latency_p95} ms")
print(f"Success Rate: {results.success_rate * 100}%")
if __name__ == "__main__":
run_fmperf_benchmark() The script deploys an inference server using fmPerf and exposes a model endpoint for testing. This creates a Kubernetes Deployment and Service. The endpoint is the Kubernetes Service URL that exposes the inference server deployed by fmPerf. It acts as the network entry-point for the load generator and this is where the overall traffic is sent for testing.
A controlled load is sent against the Endpoint service for measuring performance under real traffic conditions. Lastly, key benchmarking metrics such as throughput, average latency, and P95 latency are collected for further analysis.
To summarize, fmPerf offers a Kubernetes-native way to benchmark AI workloads across Ada, Ampere, Hopper, and Blackwell GPUs.
3. NVIDIA Triton Inference Server
The NVIDIA Triton Inference Server (a part of NVIDIA AI Enterprise) is an open-source inference serving software that streamlines AI model inference. TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX Runtime, and TensorRT are some of the prominent frameworks supported by the NVIDIA Triton Inference Server.
When benchmarking Ada, Ampere, Hopper, or Blackwell GPUs, Triton ensures that the same model, input data, and request patterns are used. This eliminates any scope of software variability from the comparison.
Multi-GPU and multi-node capabilities of NVIDIA Triton Inference Server can be used when benchmarking Hopper and Blackwell GPUs that primarily excel with large-scale, distributed AI workloads. You can find more details in the below documentation:
Shown below is a simple example that highlights the usage of Triton Inference Server:
import tritonclient.http as httpclient
import numpy as np
# Create Triton HTTP client
client = httpclient.InferenceServerClient(url="localhost:8000")
# Example input for a model named 'resnet50'
inputs = httpclient.InferInput("input__0", [1, 3, 224, 224], "FP32")
inputs.set_data_from_numpy(np.random.rand(1, 3, 224, 224).astype(np.float32))
# Perform inference
results = client.infer(model_name="resnet50", inputs=[inputs])
# Print output probabilities
print(results.as_numpy("output__0")) The InferenceServerClient connects to the Triton server via its HTTP endpoint, allowing the script to communicate with the deployed model. As seen in the snippet, localhost:8000 refers to the URL of the Triton Inference Server running on the local machine.
The InferInput object wraps the input data in the correct shape and datatype expected by the model ([1,3,224,224] for a ResNet image input). The infer method sends the input to the specified model (resnet50) and waits for the output. The results are retrieved as a NumPy array for further analysis.
The above example can be benchmarked across Ada, Ampere, Hopper, and Blackwell GPUs, where an HTTP client sends input to a deployed model and collects inference results for performance evaluation.
4. Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute
NVIDIA Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute are profiling tools that provide end-to-end insights about the GPU architecture and model performance. Nsight Systems capture the following metrics:
- End-to-end application behaviour
- Kernel execution timelines
- CPU-GPU interactions
- Memory transfers
On the other hand, Nsight Compute captures the per-kernel GPU performance metrics like occupancy, instruction throughput, and memory efficiency. Hence, NVIDIA Nsight Systems is designed for profiling the overall application flow, whereas Nsight Compute is designed for detailed kernel-level analysis.
Leveraging both Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute can help benchmarking by comparing how well Ada, Ampere, Hopper, and Blackwell architectures handle the same workload. The benchmarking results can be further used for optimizing the model deployment.
Apart from the above mentioned tools, you can also check out NVIDIA Data Center GPU Manager (DCGM), a system-level tool for monitoring, managing, and diagnosing NVIDIA GPUs in data center environments. It provides detailed insights about power usage and power efficiency metrics, telemetry, and GPU health data. It also has observability features via which policy-based alerts are shared to respective stakeholders for ensuring energy-efficient GPU operations at scale!
Conclusion
Benchmarking AI workloads across Ada, Ampere, Hopper, and Blackwell architectures helps in identifying architectural strengths for specific workloads. With these inputs, you can make informed, data-driven decisions for training and inference deployments.
By leveraging AI-benchmarking tools like MLPerf, fmPerf, GenAI-Perf, etc., organizations can measure key benchmarking metrics such as latency and throughput effectively. These benchmarks are also evaluated on on-premise and cloud GPU environments to understand how system configuration and hardware choices impact end-to-end AI performance.