![]() FP32 and FP64 MFMA matrix instructions do not flush input and output denormal values to zero. Implementing on an FPGA is going to be highly dependent on the macrofunction you use. Reduced Precision FP16 and BF16 GEMMs and Convolutions on AMD Instinct MI200 devices On AMD Instinct MI200 GPUs, the FP16 and BF16 VDOT2 and MFMA matrix instructions flush input and output denormal values to zero. That makes sense as 2 ops of BF16 are executed in place of 1 op of FP32. In IEEE754, FP64 has more than twice as many mantissa bits as FP32 (which in turn has more than twice as many as FP16), and many operations dont scale linearly. The main argument for FP16 vs FP32 is faster training times and less memory usage without a significant loss of performance (accuracy or what ever other metric being used) in most cases. For A100, BF16 (non-tensor) seems to be double that of FP32. In the Table 3 of blog post on H100 ( ), copied below, TFLOPS for various precisions are available. Overall it looks like NVIDIA has kept the performance increase near doubling on successive GPU generations for another release. There is a trend in DL towards using FP16 instead of FP32 because lower precision calculations seem to be not critical for neural networks. So less smaller numbers and a greater distance between high numbers. Quote Nvidia Pascal Titan X will not feature faster FP64 or FP16 performance The original GTX Titan GPU had a unique characteristic that made it popular for. FP32) The NVIDIA V100 GPU contains a new type of processing core called Tensor Cores which support mixed precision training. I feel this could be used for code testing and development that is target to run on high-end compute GPUs like A100 and H100. FP 16 is less accurate with just 5bits for the exponent and 10 bits for the fraction. Wondering how the theoretical TFLOPS numbers are calculated for lower precisions. However, the fp64 performance of the RTX 4090 is competitive with 16-34 core CPUs.
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