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15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern


uy an RTX 5090, the fastest consumer GPU money can buy, and you get 104.8 TFLOPS of FP32 compute. Ask it to do double-precision math and you get 1.64 TFLOPS.

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