Microsoft's Holographic Processing Unit

>24 physical cores
>1GB of DDR3 RAM
>8MB of SRAM cache
>PCIe and serial connectivity
>one trillion floating point operations per second
>draws under 10W

What kind of sorcery Microsoft did?

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did they really print DDR3 and the words compute on it wow thats stupid lol

wtf I love microsoft now

>1 TFLOP @ 10W
lol that's pretty shitty. GPUs and phones can do much better than that.
unless this is not a GPU-like core, like a RISC core. though I'm willing to bet it's just a simple RISC core with a shit load of SIMD to do the graphics shit

It's basically a coprocessor, the main SoC is an Intel Atom. The Atom is the one that does the graphics, this one only processes data.

Hmm, that's pretty good. The NVIDIA Tegra X1 can do 0.5 TFLOPS with FP32 and 1 TFLOP at FP16 with 10W typical power consumption, though this actually has an ARM SoC.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra#Tegra_X1

If MS's shit can do FP32 at 1 TFLOP for real shader-like code, i'm impressed, but I seriously doubt they just made something better than NVIDIA's shit on their first try.

You love Tensilica actually.

The kind of sorcery where they want to a 3rd party and said
>hey we need something that does this
>what do you have?
Then Cadence responded
>here have this DSP with a bunch of Tensilica cores on it

>believing Nvidia's lies
Throttling kicks in and the chip can't maintain its clocks. Thats why it pulls 20w or more in the Nvidia goy TV box.

>1GB
You mean 1 GiB.
>8MB
You mean 8 MiB.

>NVIDIA Tegra X1
Maybe the new Parker version will have a chance, but the X1 was complete shit.

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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_integrated_circuit

what's cool here is that they didn't use an off-the shelf GPU.
ASICs are crazy expensive for low volume production.

>FP16
lol

Well, the HoloLens dev kits are crazy expensive as well.

>its 1.5 tflops more than the xbox one g-guys
>little christian cross one the corner of that statement
>"1.5 tflops of fp16 compute"

how much is it REALLY in fp32?

im asking about the parker SoC not the X1's "9w lmao" thing

What does Master Chiefs look like?

physical cores
>>draws under 10W
it's nothing special, the higher the clocks the exponentially more power you need.
so going down in clock speed can get you solid performance for 1/4 the power.
that's why a quadcore laptop can use 45 watts turbo boosting to 3.6ghz, but only 15-20 watts at 2.6ghz

can that hlep me play muh gaymes

prolly just a cortana accelerator, microsoft is useless and self indulgent

ASIC's always look impressive.

The HPU is a semi-custom design, though.

Sounds interesting.
What's it's ghz?

reducing the clock speed also reduces your FLOPS though