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Re:Graphics card generation is over and it was mostly trash by Aardwolf on Monday September 11, 2023 @09:47AM (#37467205)
> This is also why it requires NVIDIA’s bespoke Tensor cores to function.

Any idea why this needs bespoke cores? GPU's were already used for AI and crypto mining before this, without bespoke cores for 1 specific application

> The “Deep Learning SuperSampling” is right in the title

With that name, it could have been based off of a single pre-training on many games, to work on games in general

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Re:Graphics card generation is over and it was mostly trash by gjsman-1000 on Monday September 11, 2023 @09:50AM (#37467238)
As far as I know, Tensor cores are a little like Raytracing cores. Precision, unlike for mining or science, is not valued and they are allowed to do sloppy math within a tolerance in exchange for much, much greater speed.

> With that name, it could have been based off of a single pre-training on many games, to work on games in general

Well, I’m not NVIDIA, so I don’t know if you could. I just know AMD tried and the results were almost universally considered inferior.

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