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.
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 
Best regards,
Vlado
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.
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.
Best regards,
Vlado
These little teases you provide us. Gets me all excited
You could use them for that unique quantized look.
So, are you working on something similar to Optix 5.0?
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