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		bufo on Sept 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zen4's AVX512 Teardown The BF16 and VNNI instructions are finally going to make AMD competitive for neural network inference.

freemint on Sept 27, 2022 [–]

Competitive with what? GPUs? Only for networks that fit in a cache and even then only in latency not in throughput. Still valuable but not competitive in the majority of use cases.

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