Inferencing Images 100x Faster with GPUs and TensorRT

At this week’s Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference, NVIDIA demonstrated how one Tesla V100 running NVIDIA TensorRT can perform a common inferencing task 100X faster than a system without GPUs.
In the video below, the CPU-only Intel Skylake-based system (on the left) can classify five flower images per second with a Resnet-152 trained classification network. That’s a speed that comfortably outpaces human capability.
By contrast, a single V100 GPU (on the right) can classify a dizzying 527 flower images per second, returning results with less than 7 milliseconds of latency — a superhuman feat.

While a 100X speed up in performance is impressive, that’s only half the equation. What are the costs associated with moving as fast as possible — what we here at NVIDIA call “speed of light”?
Remarkably, moving faster means fewer costs. One NVIDIA GPU-enabled system doing the same work as 100 CPU-only systems means 100 times fewer cloud servers to rent or buy.
NVIDIA TensorRT is available to members of the NVIDIA Developer Program as a free download to speed up AI inference on NVIDIA GPUs in the data center, in automobiles and in robots, drones and other devices at the edge.
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