Quote Originally Posted by Dirk Broer View Post
Talking bout GPUs: I just cannot understand why Ati/AMD choose to leave out the double precision support in the new 68xx series.
I have such fun with my humble HD 3870 which has that support, crunching milkyway WUs like they are mere choclate bars
Hmm... I had no idea of this, but in this case I also agree that it was a major step in the wrong direction...

But then again we have to consider that Distributed Computing is not what brings the big bucks to the GPUs department of AMD... it's the games, and the gamers who buy the GPUs. My guess is that double precision calculations might not be something truly necessary for games, so they left it out. That way theres more free space in the chip, for more streaming units! (Some models have >1000! )