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> Another incredible aspect is the early addition of an NPU by Apple in a SoC. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you've not used CUDA yet. NPUs are
by bigyabai 11mo ago
> Another incredible aspect is the early addition of an NPU by Apple in a SoC.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you've not used CUDA yet. NPUs are a lot of things, but "incredible" is the last word an engineer would use to describe them these days.
- wslh 11mo agoIncredible means they follow a SoC approach where the RAM is shared between CPU, GPU, and NPU instead of separated like in a typical GPU such as Nvidia.
- bigyabai 11mo agoI consider the Tegra chip several times more incredible. What's so special about Apple's architecture to you?
- wslh 11mo agoTegra was interesting for its time but saying it’s “several times more incredible” than Apple’s architecture is just opinion. Apple builds custom high-performance CPU/GPU designs with industry-leading perf-per-watt and tight OS integration. Tegra and Apple SoCs were built for very different goals, so the comparison only makes sense with concrete metrics, not broad claims.