Tensor Cores do the AI heavy lifting, CUDA Cores finish the epilogue
cfregly · x · 2026-11-11
cfregly illustrates GPU division of labor: Tensor Cores perform the high-speed matrix multiply-accumulate (MMA) — the real workhorse of AI — while CUDA Cores scale the result during the kernel epilogue.
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