• Pasta Dental@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    It’s the kind of thing that in a few years you’ll be glad to have because some tasks will be offloaded from the GPU to the NPU, one I can think of is the background blur in video conferencing software or microphone noise suppression

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      3 months ago

      That’s still something that works more than good enough without the use of an NPU. We’ll see if better use cases come out in future but I’d still prefer that power and die area go to raw CPU processing power.

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        3 months ago

        GPUs are already good at those things. But NPUs can be better at those things - and probably more energy efficient too - given optimized domain-specific models to work with.

          • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemmy.zip
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            3 months ago

            This but unironically. I’m obsessed with off-grid, low power processing. I don’t want a stupid fucking NPU I won’t need nor use.