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The matmul stuff is part of the Neural Accelerator marketing, which is distinct from the Neural Engine you're talking about. I don't blame you. It's confusing.
by runjake 1y ago
The matmul stuff is part of the Neural Accelerator marketing, which is distinct from the Neural Engine you're talking about.
I don't blame you. It's confusing.
- Nokinside 1y agoIt's remaining and rearrangement of the same stuff. Not a new feature.
- runjake 1y ago1. It adds new features. Eg. see matmul and other to-be-detailed-soon features. 2. It moves some stuff from the external Neural Engine to the GPU, which substantially increases speeds for those workloads. That itself is a feature. Will any of this really matter much to the average consumer at this point? Probably not. Not until Apple Intelligence gets off the ground.
- aurareturn 1y agoThe NPU is still there. This adds matmul acceleration directly into each GPU core. It takes about ~10% more transistors to add these accelerators into the GPU so it's a significant investment for Apple.