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Nv is making a use for them via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Learning_Super_Sampling
> How do they differ from the regular Shader Units? Why are they more efficient?
They basically implement a special-purpose, single-instruction 4x4 matrix multiply operation with 16-bit floats. https://www.anandtech.com/show/12673/titan-v-deep-learning-d...
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Nv is making a use for them via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Learning_Super_Sampling
> How do they differ from the regular Shader Units? Why are they more efficient?
They basically implement a special-purpose, single-instruction 4x4 matrix multiply operation with 16-bit floats. https://www.anandtech.com/show/12673/titan-v-deep-learning-d...