US Patent 11409537 Mixed inference using low and high precision

One embodiment provides for a graphics processing unit (GPU) to accelerate machine learning operations, the GPU comprising an instruction cache to store a first instruction and a second instruction, the first instruction to cause the GPU to perform a floating-point operation, including a multi-dimensional floating-point operation, and the second instruction to cause the GPU to perform an integer operation; and a general-purpose graphics compute unit having a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) architecture, the general-purpose graphics compute unit to simultaneously execute the first instruction and the second instruction, wherein the integer operation corresponds to a memory address calculation.