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The era of the AI PC is here, powered by NVIDIA RTX and GeForce RTX technologies. This shift brings a new way to evaluate performance for AI-accelerated tasks, introducing metrics that can be daunting to decipher when choosing between desktops and laptops, according to the NVIDIA Blog. Coming Out on TOPS The first baseline is TOPS, or trillions of operations per second. This metric is akin to an engine’s horsepower rating, with higher numbers indicating better performance. For instance, the Copilot+ PC lineup by Microsoft includes neural processing units (NPUs) capable of performing upwards of 40 TOPS, sufficient for light AI-assisted tasks. However, NVIDIA RTX and GeForce RTX GPUs deliver unprecedented performance, with the GeForce RTX 4090 GPU offering more than 1,300 TOPS, essential for demanding generative AI tasks, such as AI-assisted digital content creation and querying large language models (LLMs). Insert Tokens to Play LLM performance is measured in the number of tokens generated by the model. Tokens can be words, punctuation, or whitespace. AI performance can be quantified in “tokens per second.” Another crucial factor is batch size, the number of inputs processed simultaneously. Larger batch sizes enhance performance but require more memory. RTX GPUs excel in this area due to their substantial video random access memory (VRAM), Tensor Cores, and TensorRT-LLM software. GeForce RTX GPUs offer up to 24GB of high-speed VRAM, and NVIDIA RTX GPUs up to 48GB, enabling higher batch sizes and larger models. Tensor Cores, dedicated AI accelerators, significantly speed up operations required for deep learning and generative AI models. Applications using the NVIDIA TensorRT software development kit (SDK) can unlock maximum performance on over 100 million Windows PCs and workstations powered by RTX GPUs. Text-to-Image, Faster Than Ever Measuring image generation speed is another way to evaluate performance. Stable Diffusion, a popular image-based…

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