NV D10U: Dual Precision Floating Point Yeah or Nay Vote

[myren]

Do you think the upcoming D10U nv card will have dual precision floating point? Discuss.

 

[TerraPhantm]

I've heard even the current (G92) models do, but the feature is only enabled on the Quadro models. If that's true, I'm willing to bet that nVidia will do that again.

 

[snowysnowcones]

What exactly is Dual Precision Floating Point?

 

[myren]

Yes, all G80 and beyond will run dual precision instructions, but there is no hardware support, its implemented in macrocode. Question pertains to native hardware support.

 

[dirtypop]

Er... what is it?

 

[myren]

dual precision floating point = 64 bit floats. it lets you have much more precision and much larger range numbers.

 

[pxc]

The rumors last year were that nvidia would only enable DP FP for Quadro and Tesla products. I hope that's false. The categories of GPGPU applications will expand significantly and if it's enabled in consumer GPUs, I will be very happy.