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Scott Wasson
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Founder, The Tech Report and Ars Technica. Formerly AMD Radeon and Intel GPU groups. Now product management at MLCommons. Opinions are my own.
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...
mlcommons.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
4GT Sabre
Aluminum plate
HMX Hades V2 switches (205g0, TX films, Durock 63.5g slow springs)
TX AP screw-in stabs (205g0)
GMK British Racing Green R2
Walnut wrist rest from Digital Carpentry
September 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Reposted by Scott Wasson
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
t.co
September 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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
mlcommons.org
September 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Reposted by Scott Wasson
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
www.tomshardware.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Another recent arrival: QK Alice Duo.
July 31, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Just arrived: the 4GT Sabre.
July 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Reposted by Scott Wasson
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.
mlcommons.org
July 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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
July 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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...
July 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
May 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reposted by Scott Wasson
As AI models grow, storage is key to #ML performance. MLCommons' @dkanter.bsky.social joins #Nutanix’s Tech Barometer podcast to explain why and how the #MLPerf #Storage #benchmark guides smarter #data #infrastructure for #AI.
Listen: www.nutanix.com/theforecastb...

#DataStorage #EnterpriseIT
David Kanter MLPerf Measures AI Data Storage Performance
In this Tech Barometer podcast, MLCommons Co-founder David Kanter talks about creating the MLPerf benchmark to help enterprises understand AI workload performance of various data storage technologies.
www.nutanix.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Updated with support for Intel NPUs and more.
1/ MLCommons announces the release of MLPerf Client v0.6, the first open benchmark to support NPU and GPU acceleration on consumer AI PCs.
Read more: mlcommons.org/2025/04/mlpe...
April 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
April 18, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, the SplittyKitty. geekhack.org/index.php?to...
April 9, 2025 at 4:05 AM
MLPerf Inference 5.0 results are out, with performance numbers for the latest AI accelerators, including AMD Instinct MI325X, Nvidia B200 and GB200, and Google TPU Trillium across a range of tests.

mlcommons.org/2025/04/mlpe...
MLCommons Releases New MLPerf Inference v5.0 Benchmark Results - MLCommons
MLCommons' latest MLPerf Inference v5.0 results show Gen AI now the center of attention for performance engineering.
mlcommons.org
April 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Here’s the launch of my level 2 high-power certification flight: an Apogee Zephyr flying on an Aerotech J270 engine. Went to ~4500 feet; recovered it in good shape to pass the cert test.
March 31, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Yesterday’s launch.
March 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
February 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Nature is amazing.
February 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
January 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Rama U80-A TKL with some cheap new translucent keycaps.
January 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
My current top MX clicky switches in no particular order:

-Gateron Melodics
-NovelKeys Cream Clickies
-Zeal Clickiez
-Kailh Box Whites
January 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM