FP8 Is All You Need (Part 1): Debunking Hardware FP64 as the HPC Holy Grail(arxiv.org)17 points·by matt_d·last month·2 commentsarxiv.orgFP8 Is All You Need (Part 1): Debunking Hardware FP64 as the HPC Holy Grailhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2606.065102 commentsPost comment[–]ebiederm·last monthreplyAssuming this is correct that is a very intriguing result.FP64 emulated with FP8 running faster than the native FP64 implementation.[–]aappleby·last monthreplyI feel like there's gotta be a catch in there somewhere, like "fails catastrophically when computing logarithms" or something. skeptical
FP64 emulated with FP8 running faster than the native FP64 implementation.