Why is half-precision slower than double-precision?
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MathWorks Support Team
el 19 de Ag. de 2019
Editada: MathWorks Support Team
el 22 de Sept. de 2021
While executing same calculations in MATLAB, speed of double-precision variables is faster than half-precision.
Is this normal? Is there any way to speed up?
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MathWorks Support Team
el 19 de Ag. de 2019
This is true.
n = 100;
t1= zeros(1,n);
t2= zeros(1,n);
for i = 1:n
a = ones(10,10,100,100);
b = zeros(10,10,100,100);
a2 = half(a);
b2 = half(b);
tic
temp = plus(a,b);
c = sum(temp(:));
t1(i) = toc;
tic
temp2 = plus(a2,b2);
c2 = sum(temp2(:));
t2(i) = toc;
end
sum(t1)
sum(t2)
ans =
0.1456
ans=
0.2737
Computations with half-precision data types is slower than those with double precision data types. This is because, unlike double, half-precision is not a native data type in MATLAB and hence, requires additional tweak to do the computations.
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Krishna Bindumadhavan
el 9 de Abr. de 2020
Editada: MathWorks Support Team
el 22 de Sept. de 2021
To accelerate half precision floating point math, from 20a onwards, you can now generate CUDA code from your MATLAB Algorithm for NVIDIA GPU's with Compute Capability > 5.3 which have native half precision floating point support: https://www.mathworks.com/help/gpucoder/ug/sobel-edge-detection-in-half-precision.html.
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