15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern
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For the past 15 years, floating-point double precision (FP64) processing capabilities in GPUs have followed a segmentation pattern, with distinct tiers of performance. The new Blackwell Ultra GPU introduces a capability that breaks this long-established segmentation pattern.
This matters because breaking a decade-and-a-half-old FP64 segmentation pattern signals a shift toward more universally powerful GPUs, potentially redefining performance expectations, market segmentation, and innovation trajectories in high-precision computing.
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