ScaleBench_AI - Flexible LLM Inference Benchmarking Across Architectures and Environments
摘要
The demand for LLM inference is soaring, driven by widespread adoption of generative AI. Dr. Lisa Su recently projected the data center AI accelerator market to exceed $500B by 2028—with over 60% tied to LLM and AI inference workloads. LLMs power a wide range of applications with their deep understanding and language generation capabilities. As their use grows, accurate benchmarking becomes essential for making infrastructure decisions and optimizing performance for throughput, latency, scalability, and cost. MLPerf's LLM inference has become the industry benchmark for measuring LLM inference performance, especially among hardware vendors. While valuable for peak performance comparisons, this creates a gap for practitioners who need to evaluate diverse, real-world inference scenarios involving varying architectures, software stacks, and deployment models and different LLM models. What’s needed is a flexible, open benchmark that can simulate realistic workloads and provide actionable insights for end users across a range of operational environments. ScaleBench_AI addresses this gap with an open, extensible benchmarking framework built to address this need, enabling scenario-driven evaluation of LLM inference performance across architectures using real-world REST API loads.