Graphcore claims its IPU-POD outperforms Nvidia A100 in model training

In the latest MLPerf metrics, Graphcore said its IPU-POD16 server easily managed to outperform Nvidia’s DGX-A100 640GB server.

Specifically, when systems were tested to train computer vision model RESNET-50, Graphcore’s unit did the job almost a minute faster. It took 28.3 minutes to train the model, while DGX100 took 29.1 minutes.