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by steve_adams_86 1174 days ago
Are the neural engines able to be leveraged by 3rd parties yet? I thought there was no API available yet.
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They are leveraging Apple’s Metal Performance Shaders[1] not the neural engine. From the chart, it looks like you might get ~20x max boost on inference over plain CPU. Obviously, it's not like having RTX 4090 but better than nothing.

[1] https://pytorch.org/blog/introducing-accelerated-pytorch-tra...

CoreML is the API.