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24 Aug 2026, 11:00 PM	The Register	7.0	What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks do and don't tell us about its $20B gamble Nvidia's first independent benchmarks for its Groq 3-based LPX racks show 3,400 tokens/second on Gemma 4 31B with 100K-token input, roughly 4x faster than Cerebras' 882 tok/s. The architecture trades capacity for speed: each LPU has only 500 MB of on-die SRAM (vs 288 GB on Rubin GPUs) but 150 TB/s of bandwidth, requiring models to be distributed across up to 256 LPUs per rack via Ethernet. Nebius will be among the first neoclouds to deploy the combined GPU-LPU systems. Why: If you're building AI agents, inference throughput directly constrains how long models can reason and how many agent turns are feasible within a time budget. The 3,400 tok/s figure is a best-case benchmark on a specific model, not a guarantee for your workload, but it signals that agentic inference economics are shifting toward speed-at-a-premium. Builders evaluating neocloud providers like Nebius for inference serving should track whether LPX-class throughput justifies the cost for their agent architectures rather than assuming GPU-only deployments. inference-infrastructure ai-agents hardware benchmarks neocloud

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24 Aug 2026, 11:00 PM

The Register

7.0

What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks do and don't tell us about its $20B gamble

Nvidia's first independent benchmarks for its Groq 3-based LPX racks show 3,400 tokens/second on Gemma 4 31B with 100K-token input, roughly 4x faster than Cerebras' 882 tok/s. The architecture trades capacity for speed: each LPU has only 500 MB of on-die SRAM (vs 288 GB on Rubin GPUs) but 150 TB/s of bandwidth, requiring models to be distributed across up to 256 LPUs per rack via Ethernet. Nebius will be among the first neoclouds to deploy the combined GPU-LPU systems.

Why: If you're building AI agents, inference throughput directly constrains how long models can reason and how many agent turns are feasible within a time budget. The 3,400 tok/s figure is a best-case benchmark on a specific model, not a guarantee for your workload, but it signals that agentic inference economics are shifting toward speed-at-a-premium. Builders evaluating neocloud providers like Nebius for inference serving should track whether LPX-class throughput justifies the cost for their agent architectures rather than assuming GPU-only deployments.