Data type support

Fundamental types

Table 1 Comparison of supported fundamental types of rocThrust and Thrust

Type	rocThrust support	Thrust support
int8	✅	✅
int16	✅	✅
int32	✅	✅
int64	✅	✅
half 1	⚠️	⚠️
bfloat16 1	⚠️	⚠️
float	✅	✅
double	✅	✅

Custom types

rocThrust and Thrust support custom, user-defined types, if they provide the interface required by the used functions.

Footnotes

1(1,2)

These types are supported in rocThrust and Thrust, however the host-side hip-implementations of these types miss some functionality, and are mostly intended as storage types to be passed between functions.