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Nvidia calls out Intel for cheating in Xeon Phi vs. GPU benchmarks. Nvidia claims Intel used four-year-old data to make its new chips sound better.
Nvidia calls out Intel for cheating in Xeon Phi vs. GPU benchmarks
That old chestnut again? Intel compares their current gen hardware against older NVIDIA kit.
That old chestnut again? Intel compares their current gen hardware against older NVIDIA kit | PC Perspective
In this case, it looks like Intel opted for the classic using-an-old-version-of-some-benchmarking-software manoeuvre. Intel claimed that a Xeon Phi system is 2.3 times faster at training a neural network than a comparable Maxwell GPU system; Nvidia says that if Intel used an up-to-date version of the benchmark (Caffe AlexNet), the Maxwell system is actually 30 percent faster. And of course, Maxwell is Nvidia's last-gen part; the company says a comparable Pascal-based system would be 90 percent faster.
On the 38-percent-better-scaling point, Nvidia says that Intel compared 32 of its new Xeon Phi servers against four-year-old Nvidia Kepler K20 servers being used in ORNL's Titan supercomputer. Nvidia states that modern GPUs, paired with a newer interconnect, scale "almost linearly up to 128 GPUs."
Intel has always been a proud and honorable corporation with uplifting leadership. I don't think the word cheat is in their vocabulary.
Nvidia calls out Intel for cheating in Xeon Phi vs. GPU benchmarks
That old chestnut again? Intel compares their current gen hardware against older NVIDIA kit.
That old chestnut again? Intel compares their current gen hardware against older NVIDIA kit | PC Perspective
In this case, it looks like Intel opted for the classic using-an-old-version-of-some-benchmarking-software manoeuvre. Intel claimed that a Xeon Phi system is 2.3 times faster at training a neural network than a comparable Maxwell GPU system; Nvidia says that if Intel used an up-to-date version of the benchmark (Caffe AlexNet), the Maxwell system is actually 30 percent faster. And of course, Maxwell is Nvidia's last-gen part; the company says a comparable Pascal-based system would be 90 percent faster.
On the 38-percent-better-scaling point, Nvidia says that Intel compared 32 of its new Xeon Phi servers against four-year-old Nvidia Kepler K20 servers being used in ORNL's Titan supercomputer. Nvidia states that modern GPUs, paired with a newer interconnect, scale "almost linearly up to 128 GPUs."
Intel has always been a proud and honorable corporation with uplifting leadership. I don't think the word cheat is in their vocabulary.
