News Alleged Apple M4 Geekbench scores show incremental improvement in machine learning over last gen

[Admin]

Unverified machine learning benchmarks have been posted to Geekbench and they seem to show an incremental improvement over the previous generation of Apple processor

Alleged Apple M4 Geekbench scores show incremental improvement in machine learning over last gen : Read more

 

[Metal Messiah.]

Apple's M3 was rated for 18 TOPS at FP16 precision, but the M4 is rated for 38 TOPS with INT4. That means, if equalized to INT8 precision, we're looking at a 5% improvement in TOPS for the M4 over the M3.

Not entirely sure if that info is 100% correct. 38 TOPS with INT4 ? Got proof ?

First off, Apple has NOT confirmed nor listed the exact precision info, as to whether the value is based on INT16, INT8, or even INT4 precision.

But for ML inference, INT8 would be the most likely option/candidate, since this is what Apple quoted for the A17 chip last year.

So the 5% improvement claim would also not be accurate.

 

[PaulAlcorn]

Not entirely sure if that info is 100% correct. 38 TOPS with INT4 ? Got proof ?

First off, Apple has NOT confirmed nor listed the exact precision info, as to whether the value is based on INT16, INT8, or even INT4 precision.

But for ML inference, INT8 would be the most likely option/candidate, since this is what Apple quoted for the A17 chip last year.

Ooops, you are correct. Apple has confirmed to analysts that it is INT8. fixed the typo.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1787861586285298111

View: https://twitter.com/BenBajarin/status/1787861586285298111

 

[cknobman]

Drink the KoolAid, dont ask questions, and open your wallet.

 

[brandonjclark]

For those of us who would like to know more...

https://www.mathworks.com/company/t...y-is-it-popular-for-deep-neural-networks.html

 

[thisisaname]

Or just wait for a independent review of the device, with some nice benchmarks.

Leaks are nice to speculate on but I would not trust them.

 

[TechyIT223]

Yesh should better wait for proper third party benchmarks for sure.

 

[TechyIT223]

Btw, now based on the 38 Tops INT8 metric the claimed performance should be much more than the 5% value the original article claimed ? Right?

Or something else entirely?

 

[Metal Messiah.]

Another entry spotted :

https://twitter.com/x/status/1788324153797615687

View: https://twitter.com/VadimYuryev/status/1788324153797615687