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For anyone else to whom GCN and RDNA are mysterious TLAs, this post is about GPU architectures. > To simplify, RDNA and GCN are the codenames for both ISA and
by abecedarius 4y ago
For anyone else to whom GCN and RDNA are mysterious TLAs, this post is about GPU architectures.
> To simplify, RDNA and GCN are the codenames for both ISA and Microarchitecture for AMD GPUs.
https://www.gpumag.com/rdna-vs-navi-vs-gcn/ https://www.gpumag.com/rdna-vs-navi-vs-gcn/
And WGP is "workgroup processor".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDNA_(microarchitecture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDNA_(microarchitecture)
With that much background it's no longer alphabet soup and I can judge whether to read it.
- cauthon 4y agoFor anyone else to whom TLA is a mysterious three-letter acronym, it stands for "three-letter acronym"
- rideontime 4y agoWhich is strange considering TLA isn't an acronym.
- cauthon 4y agoI'm assuming you're being pedantic about the acronym/initialism distinction, but initialisms are commonly understood to be a subset of acronyms rather than a complementary set [1,2]. i.e., TLA is an acronym [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acronym https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acronym [2] https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/1844 https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/1844
- rideontime 4y agoI guess this is the line you're referring to? > Note that the word acronym is also sometimes used to mean "initialism."