It turns out RTX 3000 series can run BF16 almost 2x faster - NVIDIA locked it via kernel not a hardware limitation

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- [1]It turns out RTX 3000 series can run BF16 almost 2x faster - NVIDIA locked it via kernel not a hardware limitationr/StableDiffusion (top, day) · Oct 22, 09:37 PM
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