| # Benchmark Results | |
| Performance benchmarks comparing **awesome-depth-anything-3** (optimized fork) against the vanilla upstream implementation. | |
| > **Test Environment**: Apple Silicon (M-series), PyTorch 2.9.0 | |
| > **Models**: da3-small, da3-base, da3-large, da3-giant | |
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| ## Quick Summary | |
| | Feature | Improvement | | |
| |---------|-------------| | |
| | Model Loading (cached) | **200x faster** (0.8s → 0.005s) | | |
| | Inference (MPS, batch 4) | **1.14x faster** | | |
| | Cold Load Time | **1.7x faster** | | |
| | Memory Efficiency | Adaptive batching prevents OOM | | |
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| ## 1. Awesome vs Upstream Comparison | |
| Direct comparison between this optimized fork and the original upstream repository. | |
| ### MPS (Apple Silicon GPU) | |
| | Batch Size | Upstream | Awesome | Speedup | Notes | | |
| |------------|----------|---------|---------|-------| | |
| | 1 | 3.47 img/s | 3.50 img/s | 1.01x | Minimal overhead | | |
| | 2 | 3.64 img/s | 3.83 img/s | 1.05x | Batching benefits | | |
| | **4** | 3.32 img/s | 3.78 img/s | **1.14x** | Best improvement | | |
| #### Model Loading Performance | |
| | Metric | Upstream | Awesome | Speedup | | |
| |--------|----------|---------|---------| | |
| | Cold Load | 1.28s | 0.77s | **1.7x** | | |
| | Cached Load | N/A | 0.005s | **~200x** | | |
| The model caching system is the standout feature - after the first load, subsequent loads are essentially instant. | |
| ### CPU | |
| | Batch Size | Upstream | Awesome | Speedup | | |
| |------------|----------|---------|---------| | |
| | 1 | 0.27 img/s | 0.31 img/s | 1.13x | | |
| | 2 | 0.24 img/s | 0.24 img/s | 1.00x | | |
| | 4 | 0.17 img/s | 0.16 img/s | 0.95x | | |
| > **Note**: CPU performance is similar between versions since GPU-specific optimizations don't apply. The slight regression at batch 4 is within measurement noise. | |
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| ## 2. Model Performance by Size | |
| Throughput benchmarks on MPS (Apple Silicon) with 1280x720 input images. | |
| | Model | Parameters | Batch 1 | Batch 4 | Best Config | | |
| |-------|------------|---------|---------|-------------| | |
| | **da3-small** | ~25M | 22.2 img/s | 27.2 img/s | B=4 SDPA | | |
| | **da3-base** | ~100M | 10.7 img/s | 11.6 img/s | B=4 SDPA | | |
| | **da3-large** | ~335M | 3.8 img/s | 3.8 img/s | B=1-2 | | |
| | **da3-giant** | ~1.1B | 1.6 img/s | 1.2 img/s | B=1 | | |
| ### Latency (single image) | |
| | Model | MPS | CPU | MPS Speedup | | |
| |-------|-----|-----|-------------| | |
| | da3-small | 45 ms | ~3,500 ms | ~78x | | |
| | da3-base | 94 ms | ~7,000 ms | ~74x | | |
| | da3-large | 265 ms | ~3,900 ms | ~15x | | |
| | da3-giant | 618 ms | N/A | - | | |
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| ## 3. Preprocessing Pipeline | |
| ### Strategy: Hybrid CPU/GPU | |
| On Apple Silicon, **CPU preprocessing is faster** than GPU (Kornia) due to optimized OpenCV/Accelerate routines. The overhead of MPS kernel launches exceeds the benefit for image transforms. | |
| | Resolution | CPU Time | GPU Time | Winner | | |
| |------------|----------|----------|--------| | |
| | 640x480 | 6.0 ms | N/A | CPU | | |
| | 1920x1080 | 18.7 ms | N/A | CPU | | |
| | 3840x2160 | 57.0 ms | N/A | CPU | | |
| > **Design Decision**: GPU preprocessing is automatically disabled on MPS. The GPU is reserved for model inference where it provides 15-78x speedup. | |
| ### CUDA (NVIDIA) | |
| On CUDA, GPU preprocessing with NVJPEG provides significant benefits for JPEG decoding directly to GPU memory, eliminating CPU→GPU transfer overhead. | |
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| ## 4. Attention Mechanisms | |
| Comparison between SDPA (Scaled Dot-Product Attention / Flash Attention) and manual attention implementation. | |
| ### Per-Layer Performance | |
| | Config | SDPA | Manual | Speedup | | |
| |--------|------|--------|---------| | |
| | ViT-L 518px (MPS) | 2.21 ms | 1.86 ms | 0.8x | | |
| | ViT-L 1024px (MPS) | 9.91 ms | 5.87 ms | 0.6x | | |
| | ViT-L 518px (CPU) | 3.75 ms | 4.96 ms | 1.3x | | |
| | ViT-L 1024px (CPU) | 11.73 ms | 16.85 ms | 1.4x | | |
| > **Insight**: On MPS, manual attention is faster for ViT due to MPS's SDPA implementation overhead. On CPU, SDPA benefits from optimized BLAS operations. | |
| ### End-to-End Impact | |
| | Model | SDPA | Manual | Best | | |
| |-------|------|--------|------| | |
| | da3-small | 21.8 img/s | 22.2 img/s | Manual | | |
| | da3-base | 9.8 img/s | 10.7 img/s | Manual | | |
| | da3-large | 3.8 img/s | 3.7 img/s | SDPA | | |
| | da3-giant | 1.6 img/s | 1.6 img/s | Tie | | |
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| ## 5. Adaptive Batching | |
| The adaptive batching system dynamically adjusts batch size based on available GPU memory. | |
| ### Test: 20 images with da3-large on MPS | |
| | Strategy | Total Time | Throughput | Batches Used | | |
| |----------|------------|------------|--------------| | |
| | Fixed B=1 | 5,612 ms | 3.6 img/s | [1,1,1...] | | |
| | Fixed B=2 | 5,514 ms | **3.6 img/s** | [2,2,2...] | | |
| | Fixed B=4 | 8,305 ms | 2.4 img/s | [4,4,4,4,4] | | |
| | Adaptive 85% | 5,637 ms | 3.5 img/s | [4,4,4...] | | |
| > **Recommendation**: For MPS with da3-large, fixed batch size of 2 provides optimal throughput. Adaptive batching is more valuable for: | |
| > - Variable input sizes | |
| > - Unknown GPU memory constraints | |
| > - Preventing OOM errors on smaller GPUs | |
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| ## 6. Cross-Device Comparison | |
| ### Inference Throughput (da3-large, batch=1) | |
| ``` | |
| MPS (Apple Silicon) ████████████████████████████████████████ 3.7 img/s | |
| CPU ███ 0.3 img/s | |
| ``` | |
| **MPS provides ~12x speedup over CPU** for da3-large inference. | |
| ### Attention Layer (ViT-L 518px, SDPA) | |
| ``` | |
| MPS ████████████████████████ 2.40 ms | |
| CPU ███████████████████████████████████████ 3.75 ms | |
| ``` | |
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| ## 7. Optimization Recommendations | |
| ### For Apple Silicon (MPS) | |
| 1. **Use model caching** - 200x faster subsequent loads | |
| 2. **Batch size 2-4** for da3-small/base, **batch 1-2** for da3-large/giant | |
| 3. **Let CPU handle preprocessing** - it's faster than MPS for image transforms | |
| 4. **SDPA vs Manual**: Both are similar; SDPA slightly better for larger models | |
| ### For NVIDIA CUDA | |
| 1. **Enable GPU preprocessing** with NVJPEG for JPEG inputs | |
| 2. **Use SDPA** (Flash Attention) - significant speedup | |
| 3. **Larger batch sizes** benefit more from GPU parallelism | |
| 4. **Adaptive batching** to maximize VRAM utilization | |
| ### For CPU-only | |
| 1. **Use smallest viable model** (da3-small: 22x faster than da3-giant) | |
| 2. **Batch size 1** is optimal (memory bandwidth limited) | |
| 3. **SDPA provides 1.3-1.4x speedup** on CPU | |
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| ## Running Benchmarks | |
| ```bash | |
| # Quick benchmark (fewer iterations) | |
| uv run python benchmarks/full_benchmark.py --quick | |
| # Full benchmark on specific device | |
| uv run python benchmarks/full_benchmark.py --device mps | |
| uv run python benchmarks/full_benchmark.py --device cuda | |
| uv run python benchmarks/full_benchmark.py --device cpu | |
| # Compare against upstream (requires upstream repo) | |
| uv run python benchmarks/comparative_benchmark.py --device all | |
| # Skip specific tests | |
| uv run python benchmarks/full_benchmark.py --skip-batching | |
| ``` | |
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| ## Methodology | |
| - **Warmup**: 2 inference passes before timing | |
| - **Runs**: 3-5 iterations per configuration | |
| - **Synchronization**: `torch.mps.synchronize()` / `torch.cuda.synchronize()` for accurate GPU timing | |
| - **Memory cleanup**: `gc.collect()` + cache clearing between tests | |
| - **Input**: Synthetic 1280x720 RGB images (consistent across tests) | |
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| *Benchmarks last updated: December 2024* | |
| *Hardware: Apple Silicon (M-series) | Software: PyTorch 2.9.0* | |