Re:Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more perfor...
by voxadam on Monday August 20, 2018 @07:45PM
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I wasn't aware that the Jetson TX1 and TX2 supported fp16; that's interesting and good to know. Thanks for the heads up.
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Re:Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more perfor...
by h4b4n3r0 on Monday August 20, 2018 @07:58PM
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IIRC all recent NVIDIA GPUs support fp16, it's just that the perf of fp16 is severely hampered on "consumer" grade hardware, so the memory/perf tradeoff is not viable. I mean, on the one hand I can see why that is: fp16 is not terribly useful in games. But on the other, it's probably nearly the exact same die with a few things disabled here and there to differentiate it from $7K Tesla GPUs, which as an engineer I find super tacky, much like MS deliberately disabling features in Windows Home that don't really need to be disabled.