diff --git a/test/test_dtype.py b/test/test_dtype.py
index 5ea34fca..a83a224d 100644
--- a/test/test_dtype.py
+++ b/test/test_dtype.py
@@ -161,7 +161,25 @@ class TestHalfDtype(TestDType): DTYPE = dtypes.half
 
 class TestFloatDType(TestDType): DTYPE = dtypes.float
 
-class TestDoubleDtype(TestDType): DTYPE = dtypes.double
+class TestDoubleDtype(TestDType):
+  DTYPE = dtypes.double
+  @unittest.skipIf(getenv("CUDACPU",0)==1, "conversion not supported on CUDACPU")
+  @unittest.skipIf(getenv("HIP",0)==1, "HIP renderer does not support f64 precision")
+  def test_float64_increased_precision(self):
+    for func in [
+      lambda t: t.exp(),
+      lambda t: t.exp2(),
+      lambda t: t.log(),
+      lambda t: t.log2(),
+      lambda t: t.sqrt(),
+      lambda t: t.rsqrt(),
+      lambda t: t.sin(),
+      lambda t: t.cos(),
+      lambda t: t.tan(),
+      lambda t: t.sigmoid(),
+    ]:
+      a = [2, 3, 4]
+      np.testing.assert_allclose(func(Tensor(a, dtype=self.DTYPE)).numpy(), func(torch.tensor(a, dtype=torch.float64)), rtol=1e-12, atol=1e-12)
 
 class TestInt8Dtype(TestDType):
   DTYPE = dtypes.int8
diff --git a/tinygrad/renderer/cstyle.py b/tinygrad/renderer/cstyle.py
index 7b0c7026..4264a6e1 100644
--- a/tinygrad/renderer/cstyle.py
+++ b/tinygrad/renderer/cstyle.py
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ class CStyleLanguage(NamedTuple):
   def render_const(self, x:Union[float,int,bool], var_dtype) -> str:
     if math.isnan(x): val = "NAN"
     elif math.isinf(x): val = ("-" if x < 0 else "") + "INFINITY"
+    elif var_dtype == dtypes.float64: val = f"{float(x)}"
     else: val = f"{float(x)}f" if dtypes.is_float(var_dtype) else f"{int(x)}" if dtypes.is_int(var_dtype) else f"{bool(x)}".lower()
     return (self.render_cast([val]*var_dtype.count, var_dtype)
       if var_dtype.count > 1 or var_dtype not in [dtypes.float, dtypes.int, dtypes.bool] else val)