Submitted by Troll_of_the_bridge t3_y3zm5p in deeplearning
_Arsenie_Boca_ t1_isbgyhs wrote
If the hardware is optimized for it, there probably is not a huge difference in speed, but the performance gain is probably negligible too.
The real reason people dont use 64bit is mainly memory usage. When you train a large model, you can fit much bigger 32bit/16bit batches into memory and thereby speed up training.
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