• Synapse@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Modern graphics cards pack a lot of functionality. Shading units, Ray tracing, video encoding/deciding. NPU is just the part needed to accelerat Neural nets.

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      14 hours ago

      But you can accelerate nural nets better with a GPU, right? They’ve got a lot more parallel matrix multiplication compute than any npu you can slap on a CPU.