Unlock the secret to confident AI PC investments with BenchSmart by SHI

AI workflows are essential for workplace productivity, with functionalities like document summarization, live translation and transcription, and email draft generation helping workers recoup hours of their day. But to take full advantage of them, you need AI-powered devices that meet your performance requirements while maintaining compatibility with your existing software, peripherals, and security protocols.

That’s why we’ve developed BenchSmart, our proprietary tool that evaluates the performance of AI PCs and edge devices so you can see exactly how they’ll stack up against your new requirements.

Benefits of leveraging BenchSmart

Whether testing chat responses, voice transcriptions, or image generation, BenchSmart provides deep insights into system behavior across AI workloads as well as different silicon platforms and OEM architectures.

With BenchSmart, you can evaluate objective performance, ensuring informed decisions by measuring both individual and combined workloads. Gain a clear and detailed picture of system efficiency and meticulously track multiple performance factors, including CPU, GPU and NPU utilization. BenchSmart results ensure every processing unit’s contribution is accounted for and drives data-driven decisions.

BenchSmart helps you:

• Evaluate AI-drive performance in a real-world setting.
• Comprehensively test device CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs.
• Accurately compare different silicon platforms.
• Validate OEM claims and make informed decisions with data you can rely on.
• Measure the impact of AI workloads on your user experience.
• Leverage consistent testing environments for fair results.

How BenchSmart works

With the backing of hundreds of SHI engineers, BenchSmart helps you make data-driven decisions across five key areas:

1. Optimized processes: BenchSmart runs test locally on the device and offloads results to a centralized database, ensuring consistency and preventing other processes from skewing results.
2. Detailed performance analytics: Our tool measures AI workloads, offering insights into system efficiency by tracking metrics like tokens processed per second, power consumption, workload distribution, and battery life impact.
3. Comprehensive reports: We generate detailed reports comparing multiple devices and their AI capabilities. These reports include historical trends, allowing for performance tracking over time as new models emerge.
4. Objective evaluations: BenchSmart’s objective approach highlights real differences in platform and OEM performance, helping you make data-drive decisions.
5. User experience inference: While not a direct simulation, BenchSmart stress tests systems to understand their performance capabilities under typical enterprise workloads, inferring the impact on user experience.

To learn more about how BenchSmart can de-risk your AI PC and edge device evaluations, download our brief datasheet below.