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g42gregoryyesterday at 11:00 PM2 repliesview on HN

It does not seem to cover the Neural Accelerators, Apple's equivalent of the Tensor Cores. They only got released on M5 platform. This is probably the most important part to cover.


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sakrastoday at 5:57 AM

Neural accelerators are easy to use from Metal. They kick in automatically if you do a matmul using Metal Performance Primitives and you use bf16 or smaller (they don't seem to work in fp32).

wmfyesterday at 11:32 PM

Those are part of the GPU not the Neural Engine.