HWBench

Axelera Metis Edge 130p PCIe card vs Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling)

No like-for-like comparison yet: both have published results, but model size or batch differ. Treat the numbers below as indicative only.

Axelera Metis Edge 130p PCIe cardMinisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling)
Best object detection2894 FPS C
2026-10-15 (page last edited)
n/a
Power15.00 W Board TDP, Module, max of range 8-15 Wn/a
Perf / W193 FPS/W Board TDP, Module, max of range 8-15 Wn/a
Pricen/an/a
Workloads with data5 of 71 of 7

Best published object detection result per platform. n/a = not published; never estimated.

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object detection

Only Axelera Metis Edge 130p PCIe card has published object detection results.

PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Axelera Metis Edge 130p PCIe card89.00 FPS
throughput · b=1
RetinaFace - Resnet50
INT8 · Voyager SDK (GStreamer pipeline) · mid-size CNN
C15.00 W Board TDP, Module, max of range 8-15 W
reported in result source — Board TDP, Module, max of range 8-15 W
Axelera Voyager SDK model zoo (docs/reference/models/model-zoo.md)
2026-10-15 (page last edited)

Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling):

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No published object detection results for Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) or Axelera Metis Edge 130p PCIe card yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

instance segmentation

Only Axelera Metis Edge 130p PCIe card has published instance segmentation results.

PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Axelera Metis Edge 130p PCIe card287 FPS
throughput · b=1
YOLACT-ResNet50
INT8 · Voyager SDK (GStreamer pipeline) · mid-size CNN
C15.00 W Board TDP, Module, max of range 8-15 W
reported in result source — Board TDP, Module, max of range 8-15 W
Axelera Voyager SDK model zoo (docs/reference/models/model-zoo.md)
2026-10-15 (page last edited)

Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling):

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No published instance segmentation results for Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) or Axelera Metis Edge 130p PCIe card yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

pose estimation

Only Axelera Metis Edge 130p PCIe card has published pose estimation results.

PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Axelera Metis Edge 130p PCIe card762 FPS
throughput · b=1
YOLOv8n-pose
INT8 · Voyager SDK (GStreamer pipeline) · nano (YOLO-n)
C15.00 W Board TDP, Module, max of range 8-15 W
reported in result source — Board TDP, Module, max of range 8-15 W
Axelera Voyager SDK model zoo (docs/reference/models/model-zoo.md)
2026-10-15 (page last edited)

Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling):

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No published pose estimation results for Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) or Axelera Metis Edge 130p PCIe card yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

image classification

Only Axelera Metis Edge 130p PCIe card has published image classification results.

PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Axelera Metis Edge 130p PCIe card4591 FPS
throughput · b=1
MobileNetV4-small
INT8 · Voyager SDK (GStreamer pipeline) · mobile-class CNN
C15.00 W Board TDP, Module, max of range 8-15 W
reported in result source — Board TDP, Module, max of range 8-15 W
Axelera Voyager SDK model zoo (docs/reference/models/model-zoo.md)
2026-10-15 (page last edited)

Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling):

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No published image classification results for Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) or Axelera Metis Edge 130p PCIe card yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

semantic segmentation

Only Axelera Metis Edge 130p PCIe card has published semantic segmentation results.

PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Axelera Metis Edge 130p PCIe card280 FPS
throughput · b=1
YOLO26n-sem
INT8 · Voyager SDK (GStreamer pipeline) · nano (YOLO-n)
C15.00 W Board TDP, Module, max of range 8-15 W
reported in result source — Board TDP, Module, max of range 8-15 W
Axelera Voyager SDK model zoo (docs/reference/models/model-zoo.md)
2026-10-15 (page last edited)

Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling):

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No published semantic segmentation results for Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) or Axelera Metis Edge 130p PCIe card yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

speech-to-text

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No published speech-to-text results for Axelera Metis Edge 130p PCIe card or Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

LLM generation

Only Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) has published LLM generation results.

PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling)34.52 tok/s
generation_throughput · b=1
llama3.1:8b
Ollama default tag (4-bit unless tag says otherwise) · Ollama (geerlingguy/ollama-benchmark) · LLM 5–14B
Cunknown power not published
not published
Jeff Geerling ai-benchmarks issue results (comments)
2025-11-10 (page last edited)

Axelera Metis Edge 130p PCIe card:

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No published LLM generation results for Axelera Metis Edge 130p PCIe card or Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

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