A Quick Guide to Benchmarking AI models on Azure: Llama 405B and 70B with MLPerf Inference v5.1

by Mark Gitau (Software Engineer) Introduction For the MLPerf Inference v5.1 submission, Azure shared performance results on the new ND GB200 v6 virtual machines. A single ND GB200 v6 VM on Azure is powered by two NVIDIA Grace CPUs and four NVIDIA Blackwell B200 GPUs. This document highlights Azure’s MLPerf…

09/09/2025Azure High Performance Computing (HPC) Blog

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