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From: Warp
Date: 22 Apr 2007 04:18:51
Message: <462b1a6b@news.povray.org>

_theCardinal <_the### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
>  A: CUDA supports the C "double" data type.  However on G80
>     (e.g. GeForce 8800) GPUs, these types will get demoted to 32-bit
>     floats.  NVIDIA GPUs supporting double precision in hardware will
>     become available in late 2007."

  And my questiom is: When it supports 64-bit floating point numbers,
how will it be different from current FPUs?

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                                                          - Warp

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