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Re:Volta: Advanced Data Center GPU by Athas on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @05:01PM (#14311685)
Does this architecture improve on 64-bit integer performance? Have any of the GPU manufacturers said anything about that? At some point it becomes a necessity for address calculations on large arrays.
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Re:Volta: Advanced Data Center GPU by sipherhex on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @11:37PM (#14313685)
"With independent, parallel integer and floating point datapaths, the Volta SM is also much more efficient on workloads with a mix of computation and addressing calculations"

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/inside-volta/

Under "New SM" in "Key Features" section

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Re:Volta: Advanced Data Center GPU by jabl on Thursday May 11, 2017 @04:02AM (#14314489)
But if you read the article it seems the integer units are int32, so not capable of 64-bit computations.
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