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zozbot234yesterday at 2:50 PM1 replyview on HN

> Blackwell Ultra has NO FP64 hardware, for crying out loud...

But can it run Crysis?


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latchupyesterday at 9:05 PM

Games tend to avoid FP64 compute as Nvidia has always gimped it in consumer GPUs, so you are somewhat lucky there. "Lucky" as in, you get to enjoy the broken-ass, glitchy FP32 physics that we've all grown to love so much.

However, if you actually need the much higher precision of FP64 for scientific computing (like most non-AI data center users do) and extremely slow emulation is not an option, consider yourself fucked.