1. Overview

Performance Explorer is a free web-based tool that visually compares AI workload performance across platforms. Use it to streamline deployment planning, optimize model performance, and implement cost-optimization strategies in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.

Key Capabilities

• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Modeling: Evaluate hardware and software expenses for large-scale training and inference—not just dollars per GPU hour.

• Precision Configuration Analysis: Quantify impact to cost and throughput between using BF16 and FP8 precision formats.

• Scalability Profiling: Measure cluster performance across deployments from 1 to 1,000+ GPUs.

• Custom Reporting: Filter and tailor benchmarking results to your workloads using advanced analytics.

• Generational Progress Tracking: Quantify performance gains and cost savings from NVIDIA software and hardware updates.

How It Works

Performance Explorer aggregates data from multiple sources into a unified visual interface, letting you directly compare cloud provider performance metrics.