The Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit helps accelerate deep learning inference across a variety of Intel® processors and accelerators. Rather than a one-size-fits-all solution, Intel offers a powerful portfolio of scalable hardware and software solutions, powered by the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit, to meet the various performance, power, and price requirements of any use case. The benchmarks below demonstrate high performance gains on several public neural networks for a streamlined, quick deployment on Intel® CPU, VPU and FPGA platforms. Use this data to help you decide which hardware is best for your applications and solutions, or to plan your AI workload on the Intel computing already included in your solutions.
Measuring inference performance involves many variables and is extremely use-case and application dependent. We use the below four parameters for measurements, which are key elements to consider for a successful deep learning inference application:
Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit 2020.1 performance benchmark numbers are based on production build 2020.1.023.
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CPU Inference Engines
Intel® Xeon® E-2124G | Intel® Xeon® Silver 4216R | Intel® Xeon® Gold 5218T | Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8270 | |
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Motherboard | ASUS* WS C246 PRO | Intel® Server Board S2600STB | Intel® Server Board S2600STB | Intel® Server Board S2600STB |
CPU | Intel® Xeon® E-2124G CPU @ 3.40GHz | Intel® Xeon® Silver 4216R CPU @ 2.20GHz | Intel® Xeon® Gold 5218T CPU @ 2.10GHz | Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8270 CPU @ 2.70GHz |
Hyper Threading | N/A | ON | ON | ON |
Turbo Setting | N/A | N/A | N/A | ON |
Memory | 2 x 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | 12 x 32 GB DDR4 2400MHz | 12 x 32 GB DDR4 2666MH | 12 x 32 GB DDR4 2933MHz |
Operating System | Ubuntu* 18.04 LTS | Ubuntu* 18.04 LTS | Ubuntu* 18.04 LTS | Ubuntu* 18.04 LTS |
Kernel Version | 5.3.0-24-generic | 5.3.0-24-generic | 5.3.0-24-generic | 5.3.0-24-generic |
BIOS Vendor | American Megatrends Inc.* | Intel Corporation | Intel Corporation | Intel Corporation |
BIOS Version | 0904 | SE5C620.86B.02.01. 0009.092820190230 | SE5C620.86B.02.01. 0009.092820190230 | SE5C620.86B.02.01. 0009.092820190230 |
BIOS Release | April 12, 2019 | September 28, 2019 | September 28, 2019 | September 28, 2019 |
BIOS Settings | Select optimized default settings, save & exit | Select optimized default settings, change power policy to "performance", save & exit | Select optimized default settings, change power policy to "performance", save & exit | Select optimized default settings, change power policy to "performance", save & exit |
Batch size | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Precision | INT8 | INT8 | INT8 | INT8 |
Number of concurrent inference requests | 4 | 32 | 32 | 52 |
Test Date | January 29, 2020 | January 29, 2020 | January 29, 2020 | January 29, 2020 |
Power dissipation, TDP in Watt | 71 | 100 | 105 | 205 |
CPU Price on January 29, 2020, USD Prices may vary | 213 | 1,002 | 1,349 | 7,405 |
CPU Inference Engines (continue)
Intel® Core™ i3-8100 | Intel® Core™ i5-8500 | Intel® Core™ i7-8700T | |
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Motherboard | GIGABYTE* Z390 UD | ASUS* PRIME Z370-A | GIGABYTE* Z370M DS3H-CF |
CPU | Intel® Core™ i3-8100 CPU @ 3.60GHz | Intel® Core™ i5-8500 CPU @ 3.00GHz | Intel® Core™ i7-8700T CPU @ 2.40GHz |
Hyper Threading | N/A | N/A | ON |
Turbo Setting | N/A | N/A | ON |
Memory | 2 x 8 GB DDR4 2133MHz | 2 x 8 GB DDR4 2133MHz | 2 x 8 GB DDR4 2666MHz |
Operating System | Ubuntu* 18.04 LTS | Ubuntu* 18.04 LTS | Ubuntu* 18.04 LTS |
Kernel Version | 5.3.0-24-generic | 5.3.0-24-generic | 5.3.0-24-generic |
BIOS Vendor | American Megatrends Inc.* | American Megatrends Inc.* | American Megatrends Inc.* |
BIOS Version | F8 | 2401 | F11 |
BIOS Release | May 24, 2019 | July 12, 2019 | March 13, 2019 |
BIOS Settings | Select optimized default settings, set OS type to "other", save & exit | Select optimized default settings, save & exit | Select optimized default settings, set OS type to "other", save & exit |
Batch size | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Precision | INT8 | INT8 | INT8 |
Number of concurrent inference requests | 4 | 3 | 4 |
Test Date | January 29, 2020 | January 29, 2020 | January 29, 2020 |
Power dissipation, TDP in Watt | 65 | 65 | 35 |
CPU Price on January 29, 2020, USD Prices may vary | 117 | 192 | 303 |
Accelerator Inference Engines
Intel® Neural Compute Stick 2 | Intel® Vision Accelerator Design with Intel® Movidius™ VPUs (Uzel* UI-AR8) | Intel® Vision Accelerator Design with Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA - IEI/SAF3* | |
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VPU | 1 X Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ X MA2485 | 8 X Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ X MA2485 | 1 X Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA |
Connection | USB 2.0/3.0 | PCIe X4 | PCIe X8 |
Batch size | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Precision | FP16 | FP16 | FP11 |
Number of concurrent inference requests | 4 | 32 | 5 |
Power dissipation, TDP in Watt | 2.5 | 30 | 60 |
CPU Price on January 29, 2020, USD Prices may vary | 69 | 768 | 1,450 |
Host Computer | Intel® Core™ i7 | Intel® Core™ i5 | Intel® Core™ i5 |
Motherboard | ASUS* Z370-A II | Uzelinfo* / US-E1300 | IEI/SAF3* |
CPU | Intel® Core™ i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz | Intel® Core™ i5-6600 CPU @ 3.30GHz | Intel® Core™ i5-7500T CPU @ 2.70GHz |
Hyper Threading | ON | N/A | N/A |
Turbo Setting | ON | ON | ON |
Memory | 4 x 16 GB DDR4 2666MHz | 2 x 16 GB DDR4 2400MHz | 2 x 16 GB DDR4 2666MHz |
Operating System | Ubuntu* 18.04 LTS | Ubuntu* 18.04 LTS | Ubuntu* 16.04 LTS |
Kernel Version | 5.0.0-23-generic | 5.0.0-23-generic | 4.13.0-45-generic |
BIOS Vendor | American Megatrends Inc.* | American Megatrends Inc.* | American Megatrends Inc.* |
BIOS Version | 411 | 5.12 | V2RMAR15 |
BIOS Release | September 21, 2018 | September 21, 2018 | December 03, 2019 |
Test Date | January 29, 2020 | January 29, 2020 | January 29, 2020 |
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