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> AMD GPUs are great in terms of pure silicon

This has pretty much always been true. AMD cards always had more FLOPS and ROPs and memory bandwidth than the competing nVidia cards which benchmark the same. Is that a pro for AMD? Uhhhh doesn't really sound like it.



That’s the one thing that I feel is a bit misleading in the article (to be fair, it was initially written years ago, and got rewritten a bit recently). FLOPS comparisons given in the wild are not always apple-to-apple (eg. not including Tensor cores for NVIDIA, but including V_DUAL_DOT2ACC_F32_F16 for AMD), while on the flip side, AMD’s WMMA should address the same goals as Tensor cores. I have an article on comparing the two: https://espadrine.github.io/blog/posts/recomputing-gpu-perfo...




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