Nvidia says its Blackwell chips lead benchmarks in training AI LLMs

Nvidia is rolling out its AI chips to data centers and what it calls AI factories throughout the world, and the company announced today its Blackwell chips are leading the AI benchmarks. Nvidia and its partners are speeding the training and deployment of next-generation AI applications that use the latest advancements in training and inference. The Nvida Blackwell architecture is built to meet the heightened performance requirements of these new applications. In the latest round of MLPerf Training — the 12th since the benchmark’s introduction in 2018 — the Nvidia AI platform delivered the highest performance at scale on every benchmark and powered every result submitted on the benchmark’s toughest large language model (LLM)-focused test: Llama 3.1 405B pretraining. Nvidia touted its performance on MLPerf training benchmarks. The Nvidia platform was the only one that submitted results on every MLPerf Training v5.0 benchmark — underscoring its exceptional performance and versatility ... Read full article.