Building a Test Plan to Evaluate AI Hardware With Your Own Workloads
Step-by-step plan for evaluating AI hardware yourself: choosing workloads, controlling variables, recording results and making a defensible decision.
AI Chips & Accelerators
AI Chip Technology, GPU vs NPU vs TPU, AI Hardware Architecture, AI Chip Performance & Benchmarking and AI Semiconductor Innovation explained.
Step-by-step plan for evaluating AI hardware yourself: choosing workloads, controlling variables, recording results and making a defensible decision.
A guide to interpreting AI chip benchmark results: what peak figures hide, which questions to ask about methodology, and common comparison traps.
How to separate latency from throughput when benchmarking AI inference, set percentile targets, and size hardware for the load you will actually serve.
A practical order of checks for diagnosing why an AI accelerator is underused, from profiling basics to batch size, kernels, and synchronization.
A practical selection guide for engineers and technical buyers choosing an AI accelerator, starting from workload, memory, software and operations.
A plain explanation of matrix engines in AI chips, how systolic arrays and tensor cores differ, and why tile shapes decide how fast your model runs.