Nvidia Benchmark Recipes Bring Deep Insights In Real-World AI Performance

Nvidia has been working on a set of performance testing tools, called DGX Cloud Benchmark Recipes, that are designed to help organizations evaluate how their hardware and cloud infrastructure perform when running the most advanced AI models available today. Our team at HotTech had a chance to kick the tires on a few of these recipes recently, and found the data they can capture to be extremely insightful.

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Exploring Intel’s Core Ultra 9 285H In The Lenovo IdeaPad Pro 5i

Intel launched its high-performance Arrow Lake-H and HX series mobile processors, officially known as the Core Ultra 200H and 200HX, at CES 2025 and showed off an array of partner systems based on the chips as well. For those unfamiliar, Arrow Lake-H is very different than the lower-power Lunar Lake-based Core Ultra 200S series for notebooks that launched a few months back. Arrow Lake-H is a higher-power mobile platform, that uses the same “Lion Cove” P-cores and “Skymont” E-cores as Arrow Lake-based desktop processors, but tuned for lower-power mobile applications. Arrow Lake-H also features an NPU and a relatively powerful integrated Xe-LPG+ GPU, but the NPU isn’t quite as powerful as what’s utilized in Lunar Lake. In fact Arrow Lake-H’s NPU is akin to the one Intel employed on the previous-gen Meteor Lake and desktop Arrow Lake processors. Don’t let that make you think Arrow Lake-H isn’t well suited for AI workloads, though.

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The Industry’s First System Chiplet For ADAS, Drones And AI Arrives

leaders in the EDA space like Cadence have continuously bolstered their toolsets to better assist customers of all sizes in the design, simulation and testing of their wares. But a few weeks ago, Cadence took things a significant step further, and actually architected, designed, and taped out what the company calls the industry’s first Arm-based system chiplet, in an effort to help customers design and implement their own chiplets.

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GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Review: Exploring RTX Blackwell

Just as it leads in data center AI accelerators, NVIDIA’s lead in the PC graphics space has been dominant for years and generations of products. When the company announced its forthcoming GeForce RTX 50 series of graphic cards based on its Blackwell GPU architecture back at CES in Las Vegas this year, there was almost no question as to whether NVIDIA would have the most powerful product on the market, competitively, when cards ship to gamers later this month. However, details and the nuanced picture of performance with the new GeForce RTX 5090, which is first out of the gate, had to wait until today’s embargo lift.

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AMD’s Novel Ryzen AI Max Chip For Copilot+ PCs Was A CES Showstopper

It’s not uncommon to see major chip players introduce new and novel approaches to traditional computing paradigms at CES in Las Vegas in January. And if ever there was a limelight moment in that regard, AMD found it with the introduction of its new chip and platform architecture formerly known by the code name Strix Halo, and unveiled officially last week as Ryzen AI Max Series. This chip cojoins existing AMD CPU and GPU architectures, along with a high speed memory interface, in an unprecedented way, compared to traditional X86 laptop or desktop chip designs. And it’s safe to say this new Application Processing Unit, as AMD likes to call them, stole the show for many…

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