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Memory Bandwidth

Hardware / GPUs / Apple Silicon · Level 2 of 5

Memory Bandwidth

The rate at which data can be transferred to or from memory.

A computation can be limited by data movement rather than arithmetic capability.

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A model spends much of its time reading large weight arrays.

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Memory Bandwidth. The rate at which data can be transferred to or from memory. A computation can be limited by data movement rather than arithmetic capability. For example: A model spends much of its time reading large weight arrays.

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