Next AI hardware race might be about inference speed
Delicious-Flan88 · reddit · 2026-08-26
Inspired by NVIDIA/Groq news, the author compared inference speeds across various LLM providers, suggesting the next AI hardware race will focus on inference.
Key Speed Data (Tokens/second)
- NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX (Gemma 4 31B): 3,400 tok/s
- Cerebras (GPT-OSS 120B): Official 3,000 tok/s (实测 1,715 tok/s)
- Groq (Llama 3.1 8B): 1,800 tok/s
- SambaNova (Llama 3.3 70B): 476 tok/s
Argument
As AI agents enter daily workflows, response latency and inference cost will matter far more than anticipated. Specialized chips for serving models are becoming as critical as training hardware.
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