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Archit3chlast Sunday at 10:52 AM1 replyview on HN

RDNA 3.5, which means you don't get Matrix Cores. Those are reserved for RDNA 4, which comes to laptop chips later this year. Desktop RDNA 4 only shipped in 2025.

For comparison, Nvidia brought Tensor Cores to consumer cards in 2022 with the 4000 series and Apple had simdgroup_matrix since 2020!

We are moving towards a world where this hardware is ubiquitous. It's uncertain what that means for non-ML workloads.


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zozbot234last Sunday at 11:12 AM

What do you need Matrix Cores for when you already have a NPU which can access the same memory, and even seems to include more flexible FPGA fabric? It's six of one, half a dozen of another.

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