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Anyone checked out the NPU on the new iPad? It’s supposed to be a bazillion times better according to Apple but I haven’t had a chance to dig into the reality.

I guess we can assume this is going to be what’s used in what’s being called Apple’s first AI phone, iPhone 16.



That 38 TOPS figure was a bit weird, it's literally below baseline(45 TOPS) for "AI PC" branding Qualcomm/Intel/Microsoft is launching this June, and also 10x less than typical GPUs. I think it was just a clever marketing exploiting the fact that "AI PC" branding hasn't launched yet.


It has 38 TOPS of INT8 performance. Not very remarkable compared to consumer Nvidia GPU’s which are like one or two orders of magnitude faster.


For reference, Nvidia's Jetson Orin NX robotics platform is 35-50 TOPS on average. Apple is catching up, but Nvidia still has by-far the more flexible (and better scaled) platform.




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