Apple demonstrates this far better. I use their Photos app to manage my family pictures. I can search my images by visible text, by facial recognition, or by description (vector search). It automatically composes "memories" which are little thematic video slideshows. The FaceTime camera automatically keeps my head in frame, and does software panning and zooming as necessary. Automatic caption generation.
This is normal, standard, expected behavior, not blow your midn stuff. Everyone is used to having it. But where do you think the computation is happening? There's a reason that a few years back Apple pushed to deprecate older systems that didn't have the NPU.
I've yet to see any convincing benchmarks showing that NPUs are more efficient than normal GPUs (that don't ignore the possibility of downclocking the GPU to make it run slower but more efficient)
> NPUs aren't meant for LLMs. There are a lot more neural net tech out there than LLMs.
OK, but where can I find demo applications of these that will blow my mind (and make me want to buy a PC with an NPU)?
Apple demonstrates this far better. I use their Photos app to manage my family pictures. I can search my images by visible text, by facial recognition, or by description (vector search). It automatically composes "memories" which are little thematic video slideshows. The FaceTime camera automatically keeps my head in frame, and does software panning and zooming as necessary. Automatic caption generation.
This is normal, standard, expected behavior, not blow your midn stuff. Everyone is used to having it. But where do you think the computation is happening? There's a reason that a few years back Apple pushed to deprecate older systems that didn't have the NPU.
I've yet to see any convincing benchmarks showing that NPUs are more efficient than normal GPUs (that don't ignore the possibility of downclocking the GPU to make it run slower but more efficient)
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Best NPU app so far is Trex for Mac.