A technical look at how NPU and GPU silicon actually differs at the transistor level: systolic arrays vs SIMT execution,...

A technical look at how NPU and GPU silicon actually differs at the transistor level: systolic arrays vs SIMT execution, on-chip SRAM vs external HBM/GDDR memory, and why TOPS specs are a theoretical ceiling rather than a real performance predictor. Covers Intel's Panther Lake, AMD's XDNA 2, NVIDIA's Blackwell Tensor Cores, and Apple's M5 shift toward GPU-based Neural Accelerators. #tech #technology #llm #nvidia #npu #gpu https://psyll.com/articles/technology/ai-machine-learning/npu-vs-gpu-architecture-inside-the-silicon-design