Allen
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RX Vega due out Monday. One feature is "Rapid Packed Math". This will give some PC games and PS4 games more detailed visuals. Its also a boost for non-game computations -- like Artificial Intelligence.
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..RX Vega will introduce, for the first time in desktop GPUs, the Rapid Packed Math feature. This allows two half-float operations (FP16) to be executed at the same time it would take for one full-float operation (FP32).
,,Just ahead of the PlayStation 4 Pro launch, System Architect Mark Cerny had revealed that the console would include .. Rapid Packed Math; at the time, Cerny said that it has the potential to “radically increase performance”.,
..Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus and Far Cry 5, .. support Rapid Packed Math..
Making use of RPM takes effort by a game developer. So, not all games will use it.
