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AMD ZenDNN 5.0 Software For AI Delivers "400% Performance Uplift"


Released last November following the AMD 5th Gen EPYC 'Turin' server processor launch was ZenDNN 5.0 as their deep neural network library optimized for EPYC/Ryzen processors

ZenDNN 5.0 is their updated version of their neural network library that is compatible with the APIs from Intel oneDNN/DNNL and in turn can be used with the likes of PyTorch. Earlier this month AMD engineer Shailen Sobhee outlined the ZenDNN 5.0 release and its ability to provide a 400% performance uplift. Testing across a range of models like Llama 2/3.1 compared to ZenDNN 4.2 yielded a 400% performance uplift on average.

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