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Specialized processing units in NVIDIA GPUs designed for matrix operations common in deep learning.

Tensor Cores perform mixed-precision matrix multiply-and-accumulate calculations in a single operation. They provide significant speedups for deep learning training and inference. Found in NVIDIA's Volta, Turing, Ampere, and Hopper architectures.

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