AMX and TMUL instructions

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jdart
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AMX and TMUL instructions

Post by jdart »

Recent Intel Xeon processors have instructions using large "tile" registers for matrix multiplication.

I believe i8 and i16 multiplication is supported. Looks interesting, but these are only available on quite recent, and quite expensive, server processors (4th generation Xeon, introduced in 2023).

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en ... tions.html
Joost Buijs
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Re: AMX and TMUL instructions

Post by Joost Buijs »

Don't expect too much of it, compared to 5th gen AMD Threadrippers the performance of these new Xeons is rather disappointing.
I'm planning to switch to a 9970X Threadripper in the near future, also expensive but not as crazy as the Intel Xeons.