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SME is just the AMX coprocessor that’s been in Apple chips since 2019. SME made it easier to target the AMX. But it’s been in use and available to developers si
by aurareturn 1y ago
SME is just the AMX coprocessor that’s been in Apple chips since 2019. SME made it easier to target the AMX. But it’s been in use and available to developers since 2019.
- wmf 1y agoThe point stands that virtually no apps used AMX (either directly or through a framework).
- GeekyBear 1y ago> The point stands that virtually no apps used AMX (either directly or through a framework). AMX has been present in every M series chip and the A series chips starting with the A13. If you are comparing M series chip scores in Geekbench 6 they are all using it, not just the latest ones. Any app using Apple's Accelerate framework will take advantage of it.
- sgerenser 1y agoThis isn’t true, I don’t believe GeekBench ever made use of AMX. They do use SME on any Arm-based platform that has it, which up until extremely recently has only been Apple.
- tcdent 1y agoThird-party apps sure, but you can guarantee Apple is taking advantage of it fully with any of their work.
- astafrig 1y agoIncluding in authoring all their other frameworks, which are used by many, many apps.
- sgerenser 1y agoSimilar, but not the same. SME is much more powerful than AMX on the pre-M4 cores, and software can target it directly instead of using Apples frameworks. Which means that software is more likely to actually use it (eventually), even if hardly anything does now.