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i have almost no idea what a tensor core is, apart from the fact that they are designed to accelerate AI applications, and are a major feature of the new nvidia "volta" gpu, which has 640 of them. . are tensor cores also useful for gpu rendering? would be a shame if these spanky new gpu cores sat idle when we rendered.
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No, they are not useful for rendering directly (they operate on 16-bit half-float numbers). But we may have some other uses for them
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From what I understand it is just hardware specifically designed to do matrix multiplications as fast as possible, which is the significant type of calculation in constructs such as neural networks.Comment
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It should be noted that it's for 16-bit half-float multiplications only, not for 32-bit floats. Useful for neural networks, but not for general stuff.Originally posted by RotemS View Post
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I only act like I know everything, Rogers.Comment
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These little teases you provide us. Gets me all excitedOriginally posted by vlado View PostNo, they are not useful for rendering directly (they operate on 16-bit half-float numbers). But we may have some other uses for them
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Vlado
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You could use them for that unique quantized look.Comment
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So, are you working on something similar to Optix 5.0?
https://news.developer.nvidia.com/pr...st-in-optix-5/
I thought this would be a possible way to use tensor cores before I read the news. It is nice to be right.
Bye,
Jan
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