Here's my latest at Damage Labs: Mapping the PC SoC landscape. Questions are raised. Plans are made. More to come. www.damagelabs.com/p/mapping-th...
Mapping the PC SoC landscape
From tick-tock to SoC-o’clock
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Scott Wasson
@scottwasson.bsky.social
Founder, The Tech Report and Ars Technica. Formerly AMD Radeon and Intel GPU groups and MLPerf at MLCommons.
Here's my latest at Damage Labs: Mapping the PC SoC landscape. Questions are raised. Plans are made. More to come. www.damagelabs.com/p/mapping-th...
Mapping the PC SoC landscape
From tick-tock to SoC-o’clock
damagelabs.com
My latest post on Damage Labs ain't exactly rocket science. But it might involve a little. www.damagelabs.com/p/yeah-so-ro...
Yeah, so rockets...
The making of a high-power rocket flight
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My latest at Damage Labs: Will Microsoft lose the consumer PC market? www.damagelabs.com/p/will-micro...
Will Microsoft lose the consumer PC market?
The PC is thriving. Windows is not.
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My latest article at Damage Labs: How the AI hardware crunch will transform the PC www.damagelabs.com/p/the-person...
The personal computer's big-SoC future
The AI hardware crunch will transform the PC as we know it
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Introducing Damage Labs! Some thoughts on 15 years of frame-time testing and the current state of things. www.damagelabs.com/p/inside-the...
Inside the second: where things stand today
15 years of progress in gaming performance—and some unfinished business
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The Smurve80 looks like a Model M SSK, takes MX switches, has a curved plate like the old IBMs, and has a solenoid for the clack! Got mine and rebuilt it with Gateron Melodics.
Hey, folks. Just a quick note. I had my last day at MLCommons about a month ago. I'm now considering what's next in my career, and I'd be happy to talk with anyone about potential roles or ways we could collaborate. Let me know if you'd like to chat!
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MLPerf Inference 6.0 results are out! Lots of new goodness here, including a bunch of new benchmark tests (and models) and some very large clusters reaching new peak performance numbers.
MLPerf Inference v6.0 is here - our most significant benchmark update ever. 5 new & updated benchmarks. 24 submitting organizations. Industry-first tests for text-to-video and speculative decoding. Full results: https://bit.ly/48b8NIj #MLPerf #MLCommons
🎉 MLPerf Mobile is now on the iOS App Store! Run industry-standard ML benchmarks right from your iPhone. See how your device performs — download it now 📲 https://apple.co/4bvbfdI #MLPerf #AI #MachineLearning
MLPerf Mobile app v5.0.4 is here! #MLPerf Mobile release now supports Samsung Exynos 2600 and Qualcomm's newest Snapdragon lineup, from flagship 8 Elite Gen 5 to mid-range 6 Gen 4. Meaning more comprehensive, apples-to-apples #AIperformance data across devices. play.google.com/store/apps/d...
MLPerf Mobile - Apps on Google Play
An AI benchmark for mobile devices
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MLPerf Client v1.5 is out now. Updates include Windows ML support, GUI improvements, and experimental support for Linux and power-efficiency testing. We support a broad range of GPUs and NPUs across PCs, Macs, and iPad Pro. Free to download & run! mlcommons.org/2025/11/mlpe...
MLPerf Client v1.5 Advances AI PC Benchmarking with Windows ML Integration - MLCommons
MLPerf Client v1.5 introduces Windows ML support, expanded platform coverage (including iPad), and experimental power measurement, setting a new, comprehensive standard for benchmarking AI performance...
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We have released MLPerf Mobile v5.0.1 with support for MediaTek Dimensity 9400 SoCs and a few other improvements. The app is available for Android phones via the Google Play Store and the MLCommons GitHub repo. Let us know what you think! t.co/715ENpV6W4
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mlcommons.android.mlperfbench
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MLPerf Inference v5.1 results are out today! New in this round: DeepSeek R1, Whisper V3, and Llama 3.1 8B tests. A bunch of new GPUs were tested, including AMD MI355X, Nvidia GB300, and Intel Arc Pro B60. mlcommons.org/2025/09/mlpe...
MLCommons Releases New MLPerf Inference v5.1 Benchmark Results - MLCommons
MLCommons Releases New MLPerf Inference v5.1 Benchmark ResultsNew results highlight AI industry’s latest technical advances
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MLPerf Client 1.0 is out! Happy to see an AI benchmark that supports as many platforms and as scalable a set of workloads as this one does, plus the new GUI is extremely handy.
MLPerf Client 1.0 AI benchmark released — new testing toolkit sports a GUI, covers more models and tasks, and supports more hardware acceleration paths
A useful new tool for navigating the highly fluid world of client AI performance
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MLPerf Client v1.0 is out! 🎉 The new benchmark for LLMs on PCs and client systems is now available—featuring expanded model support, new workload scenarios, and broad hardware integration. Thank you to all submitters! #AMD, #Intel, @microsoft.com, #NVIDIA, #Qualcomm mlcommons.org/2025/07/mlpe...
MLCommons Releases MLPerf Client v1.0: A New Standard for AI PC and Client LLM Benchmarking - MLCommons
MLCommons Releases MLPerf Client v1.0 with Expanded Models, Prompts, and Hardware Support, Standardizing AI PC Performance.
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MLPerf Client v1.0 is now available with a host of updates, including: -A beta GUI -3 new models -Large ~4K/8K prompts -GPU, NPU, & hybrid acceleration for all major PC hardware vendors -Early Windows ML acceleration on Intel -Win11 x64/Arm and macOS support
Happy to have MLPerf Mobile on the Play Store! Going forward, we're working to deliver proper hardware acceleration on new mobile devices as they hit the market, as well.
MLCommons just launched MLPerf Mobile on the Google Play Store! 📱 Benchmark your Android device’s AI performance on real-world ML tasks with this free, open-source app. Try it now: play.google.com/store/apps/d...