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0 pointsalkonaut1y ago0 comments

I think you mean double precision?

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No.

Can you elaborate? Outside of AI workloads, almost all computations on GPUs are single precision. Double precision is pretty rare, and smaller precision is mostly useless outside AI (and obviously irrelevant for trig precision)

saagarjha1y ago

Unfortunately almost all computations on GPUs are AI workloads.

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0 pointsalkonaut1y ago0 comments

I think you mean double precision?

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saagarjha1y ago

No.

alkonautOP1y ago

Can you elaborate? Outside of AI workloads, almost all computations on GPUs are single precision. Double precision is pretty rare, and smaller precision is mostly useless outside AI (and obviously irrelevant for trig precision)

saagarjha1y ago

Unfortunately almost all computations on GPUs are AI workloads.

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