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Your initial claim was ambiguous.

It sounded like you claimed that using only one core you already reach 1 TFLOP/s, implying that you could reach more than that by using more cores, which is false.

Now you have clarified that you actually claim that it is good that when using a single core you can reach the maximum throughput of the shared matrix operation accelerator.

This is correct, but there is no essential difference between this and a Zen 5 CPU that reaches this throughput by using only half of the cores, while having the other half of the cores free to do any other tasks.



What’s the power draw of however many zen 5 cores you have to tie up to hit, say, 1.5tflop/s on sgemm?

(Also, that’s a M2 number, since that’s what OP was talking about. Someone will presumably post M4 benchmarks for BLAS sometime soon, if they haven’t already.)




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