fp64enjoyer

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   by fp64enjoyer 8mo ago

   Yeah fair enough. The exponent of an FP32 has only 8 bits instead of 11 bits. I'll make an edit to make this explicit. It's also fairly interesting how Nvidia handles this for the Ozaki scheme: https://docs.nvidia.com&#
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   by fp64enjoyer 8mo ago

   This is so interesting, especially given that it is in theory possible to emulate FP64 using FP32 operations. I do think though that Nvidia generally didn't see much need for more FP64 in consumer GPUs since they wrote in the Ampere (R
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   15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern(nicolasdickenmann.com)

   202 points by fp64enjoyer 8mo ago|80 comments