RAGMark: A Comprehensive Framework for Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems
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arXiv:2609.05760v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present RAGMark, a modular benchmarking framework for advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems targeting small-scale multi-GPU environments. RAGMark evaluates diverse RAG components, including retrievers, vector databases, prompt-processing methods, and generator models, while collecting detailed per-stage metrics such as latency, GPU utilization, memory consumption, power usage, time to first token (TTFT), throughput, and answer quality. The framework is highly extensible, separating RAG stages, timing, and resource monitoring
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.05760v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present RAGMark, a modular benchmarking framework for advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems targeting small-scale multi-GPU environments.
- RAGMark evaluates diverse RAG components, including retrievers, vector databases, prompt-processing methods, and generator models, while collecting detailed per-stage metrics such as latency, GPU utilization, memory consumption, power usage, time to first token (TTFT), throughput, and answer quality.
- The framework is highly extensible, separating RAG stages, timing, and resource monitoring
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