Prerequisite: How 32-bit Floating-Point Arithmetic Works in GPUs

This blog highlights the FP32 (Single-Precision Floating-Point) format, detailing its division into sign, 8-bit exponent, and 23-bit mantissa. GPU kernels adhere to the IEEE 754 standard by performing complex binary arithmetic (like exponent alignment before mantissa addition) on these bit patterns.

November 2025 · Saeed Mehrang