• Master@lemm.ee
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    23 days ago

    Last year they were called cuda core. Now they are called AI Tops… wtf is an ai top… did we all become bottoms?

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      23 days ago

      TOP is a measurement of performance (Trillions of Operations Per second), a CUDA core is not, it’s a physical processing unit on the chip.

      TOP is the AI version of a FLOP, the thing we typically use to measure graphics performance.