Vulkan Adds Extension For OCP's Microscaling MX Formats To Help Machine Learning

Resumo Executivo

• Vulkan 1.4.356 is out today.
• It introduces VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types for enabling microscaling MX data types.
• This extension is for machine learning workloads with Vulkan.
• Industry demand has led to this extension being worked on to support these newer data types for increased compute throughput and lower memory bandwidth requirements.

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