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Article: Predicting AMD and Nvidia GPU Performance
By: EduardoS (no.delete@this.spam.com), April 17, 2011 1:08 pm
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Groo (charlie@semiaccurate.com) on 4/17/11 wrote:
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>I know the Evergreen (5xxx and 6000-6899) and NI/SI (6900-6999) shaders are currently
>fully IEEE FP compliant with one exception, and that is a certain type of interrupt
>handling. For numerical stuff, it is complete, for the programming side, that is the one problem.

IIRC, they lacks denormals and rounding modes.

>I would expect this to be corrected by SI or the gen after, not to mention the
>second gen 'fusion' parts. Interruptability would be a lot easier to accomplish there.

Interrupt handling depends on the programming language/plataform than on hardware, if important the software can check if the values would generate an interrupt and then call the apropriate routine, OpenCL doesn't supports interrupt handling at all so it doesn't matter.

And I don't remeber of a single software relying on it either, the first thing to do when working on fp is to mask interruptions...
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