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Re:Intel MKL on AMD Zen by rblatz on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @02:05AM (#24338995)
I’m an AMD fanboy, and just built a new Ryzen box. I’d be curious to see if there is a difference in accuracy running the two kernels on AMD hardware.

Maybe it is faster but less accurate to run the intel kernel on AMD hardware.

Re:Intel MKL on AMD Zen by Tuna-Fish on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @05:29AM (#24339933)
There is no difference. The operations these kernels use are all well-defined and work identically on all CPUs that implement them. In general, FP/SIMD is not nearly as much of a crapshoot as people seem to expect it to be. Beyond timings, there are generally no user-space visible differences in operation between any AVX/SSE instructions in Intel/AMD cpus.