MLPerf Training v5.1 NVIDIA Dominates while AMD Has a Strong Showing and Cisco Silicon

MLPerf Training v5.1 NVIDIA Dominates while AMD Has a Strong Showing and Cisco Silicon

By Patrick Kennedy
Publication Date: 2025-11-14 04:16:00

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MLPerf Training v5.1 was released this week and a lot of the results are about what you would expect. NVIDIA dominated the results. The only real other accelerator in the results was AMD, and AMD certainly had a strong showing. Perhaps the most interesting is that Cisco Silicon One G200 made an appearance in the list. We dug into the configurations and found something very notable.

MLPerf Training v5.1 NVIDIA Dominates, while AMD Has a Strong Showing and Cisco Silicon

Starting off, NVIDIA showed Blackwell Ultra results, saying it is 4-5x the performance of the H100 generation. If you have not been keeping up, B200 is Blackwell and B300 is Blackwell Ultra.

NVIDIA MLPerf Training V5.1 Performance Growth
NVIDIA MLPerf Training V5.1 Performance Growth

For several years, I have been calling MLPerf NVIDIA’s benchmark. NVIDIA made a chart of how often they have won compared to Google’s TPU and others that have submitted.

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