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Scott Wasson

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Founder, The Tech Report and Ars Technica. Formerly AMD Radeon and Intel GPU groups. Now product management at MLCommons. Opinions are my own.

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MLPerf Mobile - Apps on Google Play An AI benchmark for mobile devices

MLPerf Mobile app v5.0.4 is here!
#MLPerf Mobile release now supports Samsung Exynos 2600 and Qualcomm's newest Snapdragon lineup, from flagship 8 Elite Gen 5 to mid-range 6 Gen 4. Meaning more comprehensive, apples-to-apples #AIperformance data across devices.
play.google.com/store/apps/d...

08.01.2026 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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MLPerf Client v1.5 Advances AI PC Benchmarking with Windows ML Integration - MLCommons MLPerf Client v1.5 introduces Windows ML support, expanded platform coverage (including iPad), and experimental power measurement, setting a new, comprehensive standard for benchmarking AI performance...

MLPerf Client v1.5 is out now. Updates include Windows ML support, GUI improvements, and experimental support for Linux and power-efficiency testing. We support a broad range of GPUs and NPUs across PCs, Macs, and iPad Pro. Free to download & run!

mlcommons.org/2025/11/mlpe...

17.11.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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4GT Sabre
Aluminum plate
HMX Hades V2 switches (205g0, TX films, Durock 63.5g slow springs)
TX AP screw-in stabs (205g0)
GMK British Racing Green R2
Walnut wrist rest from Digital Carpentry

20.09.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mlcommons.android.mlperfbench

We have released MLPerf Mobile v5.0.1 with support for MediaTek Dimensity 9400 SoCs and a few other improvements.
The app is available for Android phones via the Google Play Store and the MLCommons GitHub repo.
Let us know what you think!
t.co/715ENpV6W4

16.09.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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MLCommons Releases New MLPerf Inference v5.1 Benchmark Results - MLCommons MLCommons Releases New MLPerf Inference v5.1 Benchmark ResultsNew results highlight AI industry’s latest technical advances

MLPerf Inference v5.1 results are out today! New in this round: DeepSeek R1, Whisper V3, and Llama 3.1 8B tests. A bunch of new GPUs were tested, including AMD MI355X, Nvidia GB300, and Intel Arc Pro B60.

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09.09.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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MLPerf Client 1.0 AI benchmark released β€” new testing toolkit sports a GUI, covers more models and tasks, and supports more hardware acceleration paths A useful new tool for navigating the highly fluid world of client AI performance

MLPerf Client 1.0 is out! Happy to see an AI benchmark that supports as many platforms and as scalable a set of workloads as this one does, plus the new GUI is extremely handy.

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Yeah. It’s a funny thing to combine them.

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Indeed.

31.07.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Another recent arrival: QK Alice Duo.

31.07.2025 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just arrived: the 4GT Sabre.

30.07.2025 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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MLCommons Releases MLPerf Client v1.0: A New Standard for AI PC and Client LLM Benchmarking - MLCommons MLCommons Releases MLPerf Client v1.0 with Expanded Models, Prompts, and Hardware Support, Standardizing AI PC Performance.

MLPerf Client v1.0 is out! πŸŽ‰

The new benchmark for LLMs on PCs and client systems is now availableβ€”featuring expanded model support, new workload scenarios, and broad hardware integration.

Thank you to all submitters! #AMD, #Intel, @microsoft.com, #NVIDIA, #Qualcomm

mlcommons.org/2025/07/mlpe...

30.07.2025 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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MLCommons Releases MLPerf Client v1.0: A New Standard for AI PC and Client LLM Benchmarking - MLCommons MLCommons Releases MLPerf Client v1.0 with Expanded Models, Prompts, and Hardware Support, Standardizing AI PC Performance.

More info here:
mlcommons.org/2025/07/mlpe...

30.07.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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MLPerf Client v1.0 is now available with a host of updates, including:

-A beta GUI
-3 new models
-Large ~4K/8K prompts
-GPU, NPU, & hybrid acceleration for all major PC hardware vendors
-Early Windows ML acceleration on Intel
-Win11 x64/Arm and macOS support

30.07.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy to have MLPerf Mobile on the Play Store! Going forward, we're working to deliver proper hardware acceleration on new mobile devices as they hit the market, as well.

10.07.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t have a lift, so going with a shop.

17.05.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just got a stage-1 tune for my mk7 GTI. Need a beefier clutch to handle the torque.

17.05.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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David Kanter MLPerf Measures AI Data Storage Performance In this Tech Barometer podcast, MLCommons Co-founder David Kanter talks about creating the MLPerf benchmark to help enterprises understand AI workload performance of various data storage technologies.

As AI models grow, storage is key to #ML performance. MLCommons' @dkanter.bsky.social joins #Nutanix’s Tech Barometer podcast to explain why and how the #MLPerf #Storage #benchmark guides smarter #data #infrastructure for #AI.
Listen: www.nutanix.com/theforecastb...

#DataStorage #EnterpriseIT

30.04.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Updated with support for Intel NPUs and more.

28.04.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ladies and gentlemen, the SplittyKitty. geekhack.org/index.php?to...

09.04.2025 04:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We have four new benchmarks this round as we work to keep pace with AI innovation:

-Llama 3.1 405B, our largest model yet
-Llama 2 70B interactive, with lower latency targets
-RGAT using a graph neural network
-Automotive PointPainting for edge devices

03.04.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Progress over the past year includes a doubling of the median score per round for our Llama 2 70B LLM test, while the top score is over 3X faster now. This is the server scenario.

03.04.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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MLCommons Releases New MLPerf Inference v5.0 Benchmark Results - MLCommons MLCommons' latest MLPerf Inference v5.0 results show Gen AI now the center of attention for performance engineering.

MLPerf Inference 5.0 results are out, with performance numbers for the latest AI accelerators, including AMD Instinct MI325X, Nvidia B200 and GB200, and Google TPU Trillium across a range of tests.

mlcommons.org/2025/04/mlpe...

03.04.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here’s the launch of my level 2 high-power certification flight: an Apogee Zephyr flying on an Aerotech J270 engine. Went to ~4500 feet; recovered it in good shape to pass the cert test.

31.03.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
the Seneca the Seneca a keyboard dream from the future Learn about buying from $3600 682 custom parts. Built with two human hands. The Seneca is my middle finger to the aesthetic homogeneity and economic over-op...

$3,600 keyboard.

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Yesterday’s launch.

02.03.2025 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanks! Had some very good luck with this one.

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