Skip to main content
  • 4 Topics
  • 8 Replies
4 Topics
Metis M.2: the annotated-video pipeline reports ~18× lower throughput than the board delivers

Sharing a measurement in case it saves someone else the confusion, and because it changes how you would size a deployment.Setup: Metis M.2 (metis-0:3:0, firmware 1.7.0, bc 7.4, 800 MHz), Voyager SDK 1.7.0, driver metis-dkms 1.5.5, yolov8n-coco-onnx, --aipu-cores 4 --pipe gst, Ubuntu 24.04.┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────┬───────────┐│ │ 1080p │ 4K │├─────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┼───────────┤│ inference.py … --output out.mp4 (16 clips) │ 34–61 FPS │ 13–16 FPS │├─────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┼───────────┤│ Headless app on create_inference_stream() │ 740 FPS │ 238 FPS │├─────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┼───────────┤│ SDK stage table, Metis element (both cases) │ ~840 FPS │ ~840 FPS │└─────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┴───────────┘The headless 1080p figure (740) sits just under the AIPU stage rate (~8