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All that buzzword bingo does not mean the software is actually robust and performs well. If you have hardware that has much better specs on paper, but only deli

All that buzzword bingo does not mean the software is actually robust and performs well. If you have hardware that has much better specs on paper, but only delivers maybe 20% better performance in their own benchmarks, I am still going to presume that their software is not up to par.

daveguy 3y ago
20% is a huge amount in terms of high end performance. For example, 20% more transistors / compute units / etc does not give 20% more performance at the top end unless your execution is excellent.
- shaklee3 3y ago
  OP's point is that the hardware specs are 2-3x higher in many places, but all their benchmarks are 20-30% higher. The article mentions this as well. It means AMD couldn't even utilize their own hardware very well at this point.
  - zaptrem 3y ago
    Transformers are heavily memory bandwidth bound on modern hardware, and these chips only have 60% higher memory bandwidth.
    - shaklee3 3y ago
      Their own slides show a 20-30% speedup on attention tasks.
latchkey 3y ago
20% better performance, lower cost and most important... availability.