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So now the TOPS are not comparable because M3 is much slower than an Nvidia GPU? That's not how comparisons work.

My numbers are correct, the M3 Ultra has around 1 % of the TOPS performance of a RTX 5090.

Comparing against the GPU would look even worse for apple. Do you think Apple added the neural engine just for fun? This is exactly what the neural engine is there for.

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You’re completely missing the point. The ANE is not equivalent as a component to the tensor cores. It has nothing to do with comparison of TOPs but as what they’re intended for.

Try and use the ANE in the same way you would use the tensor cores. Hint: you can’t, because the hardware and software will actively block you.

They’re meant for fundamentally different use cases and power loads. Even apples own ML frameworks do not use the ANE for anything except inference.

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