float operation is better than int operation?

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Programming and Performance
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Hi guys.
I am looking the cuda programming guide.
In the examples of it, they use float for datas, not int.
I wonder that there is some advantage when I use float type instead of int type :)

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You can store fractional values in them and they are less likely to overflow. External Image

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In terms of performance, floats used to have an advantage in G80. But in Fermi there is not much difference any more, apart from the fact that some integer bit-wise operations still do not have full throughput.