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BF16 support on Metal #56

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BF16 support on Metal #56

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@ikawrakow ikawrakow commented Sep 16, 2024 •
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It is slightly slower than fp16, but definitely a massive improvement compared to not having bf16 support at al. Didn't put any effort into optimizing the matrix x vector kernel, so it is likely one can improve bf16 TG performance.

model size params backend ngl test t/s
llama 8B BF16 14.96 GiB 8.03 B Metal 100 pp512 538.84 ± 0.26
llama 8B F16 14.96 GiB 8.03 B Metal 100 pp512 587.26 ± 0.39
llama 8B BF16 14.96 GiB 8.03 B Metal 100 tg128 21.64 ± 0.05
llama 8B F16 14.96 GiB 8.03 B Metal 100 tg128 21.77 ± 0.03

@ikawrakow ikawrakow merged commit 4ee889f into main Sep 17, 2024
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