Re:Apple Introduces M2 Ultra
by earthnail on Monday June 05, 2023 @05:34PM
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The Neural engine is for inference, not training.
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Re:Apple Introduces M2 Ultra
by sillysaurusx on Monday June 05, 2023 @06:25PM
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There’s no difference between inference and training. Training is simply ~4x more expensive inference.
The submitted article also talks about training models.
There is a difference. We train with large batch sizes these days. The ANE silicon size is tiny and can't do the large matrix multiplications for big LLMs with or without a batch size higher than 1. Meaning that it cannot saturate the RAM bandwidth and that you're better using off the much bigger GPU on the Apple die.