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There is a huge demand for float16 in machine learning, and as such all modern GPUs support it. I can imagine that reusing ieee754 float32 implies a lot of perf
by stingraycharles 4y ago
There is a huge demand for float16 in machine learning, and as such all modern GPUs support it. I can imagine that reusing ieee754 float32 implies a lot of performance degradation over native instructions?
- mananaysiempre 4y agoThis is ancient history so I might be misremembering, but I think float16 first appeared in NVidia GPUs in the 00s when even GLSL was not yet mainstream and the thing to use were the {ARB,NV}_fragment_program* pseudo-assembly languages.