Benchmarking CNTK on Keras: is it Better at Deep Learning than TensorFlow?

Switching between these backends is only a matter of setting flags; no front-end code changes necessary. But while Google has received a lot of publicity with TensorFlow, Microsoft has been quietly releasing their own machine learning frameworks open-source. There is LightGBM, presented as an alternative to the extremely famous xgboost framework. Now, there is CNTK (Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit), released at v2.0 a couple weeks ago, which markets strong performance in both accuracy and speed even when compared to TensorFlow. CNTK v2.0 also has a key feature: Keras compatibility.