Get a Deep Learning Model Performance Boost with Intel® Platforms

Increase Performance for Deep Learning Inference

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 and VPU 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:

1. Throughput - Measures the number of inferences delivered within a latency threshold. (for example, number of Frames Per Second - FPS). When deploying a system with deep learning inference, select the throughput that delivers the best trade-off between latency and power for the price and performance that meets your requirements.
2. Value - While throughput is important, what is more critical in edge AI deployments is the performance efficiency or performance-per-cost. Application performance in throughput per dollar of system cost is the best measure of value.
3. Efficiency - System power is a key consideration from the edge to the data center. When selecting deep learning solutions, power efficiency (throughput/watt) is a critical factor to consider. Intel designs provide excellent power efficiency for running deep learning workloads.
4. Latency - This measures the synchronous execution of inference requests and is reported in milliseconds. Each inference request (for example: preprocess, infer, postprocess) is allowed to complete before the next is started. This performance metric is relevant in usage scenarios where a single image input needs to be acted upon as soon as possible. An example would be the healthcare sector where medical personnel only request analysis of a single ultra sound scanning image or in real-time or near real-time applications for example an industrial robot's response to actions in its environment or obstacle avoidance for autonomous vehicles.
   

Platform Configurations

Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit performance benchmark numbers are based on release 2021.2.

Intel technologies’ features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Learn more at intel.com, or from the OEM or retailer. Performance results are based on testing as of December 9, 2020 and may not reflect all publicly available updates. See configuration disclosure for details. No product can be absolutely secure.

Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.intel.com/PerformanceIndex.

Your costs and results may vary.

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Testing by Intel done on: see test date for each HW platform below.

CPU Inference Engines

	Intel® Xeon® E-2124G	Intel® Xeon® W1290P	Intel® Xeon® Silver 4216R
Motherboard	ASUS* WS C246 PRO	ASUS* WS W480-ACE	Intel® Server Board S2600STB
CPU	Intel® Xeon® E-2124G CPU @ 3.40GHz	Intel® Xeon® W-1290P CPU @ 3.70GHz	Intel® Xeon® Silver 4216R CPU @ 2.20GHz
Hyper Threading	OFF	ON	ON
Turbo Setting	ON	ON	ON
Memory	2 x 16 GB DDR4 2666MHz	4 x 16 GB DDR4 @ 2666MHz	12 x 32 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.	Intel Corporation
BIOS Version	0904	607	SE5C620.86B.02.01. 0009.092820190230
BIOS Release	April 12, 2019	May 29, 2020	September 28, 2019
BIOS Settings	Select optimized default settings, save & exit	Select optimized default settings, save & exit	Select optimized default settings, change power policy to "performance", save & exit
Batch size	1	1	1
Precision	INT8	INT8	INT8
Number of concurrent inference requests	4	5	32
Test Date	December 9, 2020	December 9, 2020	December 9, 2020
Power dissipation, TDP in Watt	71	125	125
CPU Price on September 29, 2020, USD Prices may vary	213	539	1,002

CPU Inference Engines (continue)

	Intel® Xeon® Gold 5218T	Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8270
Motherboard	Intel® Server Board S2600STB	Intel® Server Board S2600STB
CPU	Intel® Xeon® Gold 5218T CPU @ 2.10GHz	Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8270 CPU @ 2.70GHz
Hyper Threading	ON	ON
Turbo Setting	ON	ON
Memory	12 x 32 GB DDR4 2666MHz	12 x 32 GB DDR4 2933MHz
Operating System	Ubuntu* 18.04 LTS	Ubuntu* 18.04 LTS
Kernel Version	5.3.0-24-generic	5.3.0-24-generic
BIOS Vendor	Intel Corporation	Intel Corporation
BIOS Version	SE5C620.86B.02.01. 0009.092820190230	SE5C620.86B.02.01. 0009.092820190230
BIOS Release	September 28, 2019	September 28, 2019
BIOS Settings	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
Precision	INT8	INT8
Number of concurrent inference requests	32	52
Test Date	December 9, 2020	December 9, 2020
Power dissipation, TDP in Watt	105	205
CPU Price on September 29, 2020, USD Prices may vary	1,349	7,405

CPU Inference Engines (continue)

	Intel® Core™ i7-8700T	Intel® Core™ i9-10920X	Intel® Core™ i9-10900TE (iEi Flex BX210AI)	11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1185G7
Motherboard	GIGABYTE* Z370M DS3H-CF	ASUS* PRIME X299-A II	iEi / B595	Intel Corporation internal/Reference Validation Platform
CPU	Intel® Core™ i7-8700T CPU @ 2.40GHz	Intel® Core™ i9-10920X CPU @ 3.50GHz	Intel® Core™ i9-10900TE CPU @ 1.80GHz	11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1185G7 @ 3.00GHz
Hyper Threading	ON	ON	ON	ON
Turbo Setting	ON	ON	ON	ON
Memory	4 x 16 GB DDR4 2400MHz	4 x 16 GB DDR4 2666MHz	2 x 8 GB DDR4 @ 2400MHz	2 x 8 GB DDR4 3200MHz
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	5.8.0-05-generic	5.8.0-05-generic
BIOS Vendor	American Megatrends Inc.*	American Megatrends Inc.*	American Megatrends Inc.*	Intel Corporation
BIOS Version	F11	505	Z667AR10	TGLSFWI1.R00.3425. A00.2010162309
BIOS Release	March 13, 2019	December 17, 2019	July 15, 2020	October 16, 2020
BIOS Settings	Select optimized default settings, set OS type to "other", save & exit	Default Settings	Default Settings	Default Settings
Batch size	1	1	1	1
Precision	INT8	INT8	INT8	INT8
Number of concurrent inference requests	4	24	5	4
Test Date	December 9, 2020	December 9, 2020	December 9, 2020	December 9, 2020
Power dissipation, TDP in Watt	35	165	35	28
CPU Price on September 29, 2020, USD Prices may vary	303	700	444	426

CPU Inference Engines (continue)

	Intel® Core™ i5-8500	Intel® Core™ i5-10500TE	Intel® Core™ i5-10500TE (iEi Flex-BX210AI)
Motherboard	ASUS* PRIME Z370-A	GIGABYTE* Z490 AORUS PRO AX	iEi / B595
CPU	Intel® Core™ i5-8500 CPU @ 3.00GHz	Intel® Core™ i5-10500TE CPU @ 2.30GHz	Intel® Core™ i5-10500TE CPU @ 2.30GHz
Hyper Threading	OFF	ON	ON
Turbo Setting	ON	ON	ON
Memory	2 x 16 GB DDR4 2666MHz	2 x 16 GB DDR4 @ 2666MHz	1 x 8 GB DDR4 @ 2400MHz
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	2401	F3	Z667AR10
BIOS Release	July 12, 2019	March 25, 2020	July 17, 2020
BIOS Settings	Select optimized default settings, save & exit	Select optimized default settings, set OS type to "other", save & exit	Default Settings
Batch size	1	1	1
Precision	INT8	INT8	INT8
Number of concurrent inference requests	3	4	4
Test Date	December 9, 2020	December 9, 2020	December 9, 2020
Power dissipation, TDP in Watt	65	35	35
CPU Price on September 29, 2020, USD Prices may vary	192	195	195

CPU Inference Engines (continue)

	Intel Atom® x5-E3940	Intel® Core™ i3-8100
Motherboard		GIGABYTE* Z390 UD
CPU	Intel Atom® Processor E3940 @ 1.60GHz	Intel® Core™ i3-8100 CPU @ 3.60GHz
Hyper Threading	OFF	OFF
Turbo Setting	ON	OFF
Memory	1 x 8 GB DDR3 1600MHz	4 x 8 GB DDR4 2400MHz
Operating System	Ubuntu* 18.04 LTS	Ubuntu* 18.04 LTS
Kernel Version	5.3.0-24-generic	5.3.0-24-generic
BIOS Vendor	American Megatrends Inc.*	American Megatrends Inc.*
BIOS Version	5.12	F8
BIOS Release	September 6, 2017	May 24, 2019
BIOS Settings	Default settings	Select optimized default settings, set OS type to "other", save & exit
Batch size	1	1
Precision	INT8	INT8
Number of concurrent inference requests	4	4
Test Date	December 9, 2020	December 9, 2020
Power dissipation, TDP in Watt	9.5	65
CPU Price on September 29, 2020, USD Prices may vary	34	117

Accelerator Inference Engines

	Intel® Neural Compute Stick 2	Intel® Vision Accelerator Design with Intel® Movidius™ VPUs (Mustang-V100-MX8)
VPU	1 X Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ X MA2485	8 X Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ X MA2485
Connection	USB 2.0/3.0	PCIe X4
Batch size	1	1
Precision	FP16	FP16
Number of concurrent inference requests	4	32
Power dissipation, TDP in Watt	2.5	30
CPU Price, USD Prices may vary	69 (from December 9, 2020)	214 (from December 9, 2020)
Host Computer	Intel® Core™ i7	Intel® Core™ i5
Motherboard	ASUS* Z370-A II	Uzelinfo* / US-E1300
CPU	Intel® Core™ i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz	Intel® Core™ i5-6600 CPU @ 3.30GHz
Hyper Threading	ON	OFF
Turbo Setting	ON	ON
Memory	4 x 16 GB DDR4 2666MHz	2 x 16 GB DDR4 2400MHz
Operating System	Ubuntu* 18.04 LTS	Ubuntu* 18.04 LTS
Kernel Version	5.0.0-23-generic	5.0.0-23-generic
BIOS Vendor	American Megatrends Inc.*	American Megatrends Inc.*
BIOS Version	411	5.12
BIOS Release	September 21, 2018	September 21, 2018
Test Date	December 9, 2020	December 9, 2020

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Results may vary. For workloads and configurations visit: www.intel.com/PerformanceIndex and Legal Information.