inferent-benchmark-137-cpu-1876-gpu

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InferSent achieves 137 sentences/second on CPU and 1876 sentences/second on GPU in the SBERT paper's benchmark.

Summary

InferSent, a sentence-embedding model, runs about 14 times faster on a GPU than on a CPU, processing roughly 1,876 sentences per second versus 137 in the SBERT paper's test. This is a concrete data point showing how much hardware acceleration matters for real-time or high-volume NLP workloads, and it sets a baseline that newer models are often measured against.