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Just trying to figure this out. So the low power high power cores do seem to be inspired by the M1. If they can implement that easily in x86 is another thing b
by roomey 4y ago
Just trying to figure this out.
So the low power high power cores do seem to be inspired by the M1. If they can implement that easily in x86 is another thing but if anyone can Intel can I guess.
The half prescion fps are obviously aimed at ML but how on earth are the hoping to compete with gpus on this front? Where is the use case on this (genuine question).
The complex numbers bit makes me think of quantum circuit simulation (but that could be bias on my part as that's what I'm looking at). But this is a relatively small field at the moment, and just through normal use nvideas backend simulator blows cpu performance out of the water (both for speed and number of qubits simulated).
I assume I'm missing the point here and it is heavily used in compression or something but again if someone had an idea of the usecase for complex number instructions that would be useful!
Thank you
- radicaldreamer 4y agobig.LITTLE preceded the M1 by a long while.
- astrange 4y agoFP16 is a common GPU format (ML is better with a different one called BF16). The reason to add it to your CPU is so you can work on the same data without having to do software emulation which is really slow.
- sliken 4y agoAlder lake so far hasn't been anywhere near the efficiency of the M1. > The half prescion fps are obviously aimed at ML but how on earth are the hoping to compete with gpus on this front? Where is the use case on this (genuine question). Sure, it's not GPU competition, but still helpful, after all a fair chunk of the computers on the planet to do not have discrete GPUs.