Different results for adding CUDA on the host and on the GPU

I have a function that takes a color image and returns a gray version of it. If I run serial code on the host everything works fine. If I run it on a device, the result is slightly different (one pixel in 1000 is +1 or -1 compared to the correct value).

I think it has something to do with conversions, but I don't know for sure. This is the code I'm using:

    __global__ void rgb2gray_d (unsigned char *deviceImage, unsigned char *deviceResult, const int height, const int width){
    /* calculate the global thread id*/
    int threadsPerBlock  = blockDim.x * blockDim.y;
    int threadNumInBlock = threadIdx.x + blockDim.x * threadIdx.y;
    int blockNumInGrid   = blockIdx.x  + gridDim.x  * blockIdx.y;

    int globalThreadNum = blockNumInGrid * threadsPerBlock + threadNumInBlock;
    int i = globalThreadNum;

    float grayPix = 0.0f;
    float r = static_cast< float >(deviceImage[i]);
    float g = static_cast< float >(deviceImage[(width * height) + i]);
    float b = static_cast< float >(deviceImage[(2 * width * height) + i]);
    grayPix = (0.3f * r) + (0.59f * g) + (0.11f * b);

    deviceResult[i] = static_cast< unsigned char > (grayPix);
}

void rgb2gray(unsigned char *inputImage, unsigned char *grayImage, const int width, const int height, NSTimer &timer) {

    unsigned char *deviceImage;
    unsigned char *deviceResult;

    int initialBytes = width * height * 3;  
    int endBytes =  width * height * sizeof(unsigned char);

    unsigned char grayImageSeq[endBytes];

    cudaMalloc((void**) &deviceImage, initialBytes);
    cudaMalloc((void**) &deviceResult, endBytes);
    cudaMemset(deviceResult, 0, endBytes);
    cudaMemset(deviceImage, 0, initialBytes);

    cudaError_t err = cudaMemcpy(deviceImage, inputImage, initialBytes, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);    

    // Convert the input image to grayscale 
    rgb2gray_d<<<width * height / 256, 256>>>(deviceImage, deviceResult, height, width);
    cudaDeviceSynchronize();

    cudaMemcpy(grayImage, deviceResult, endBytes, cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);

    ////// Sequential
    for ( int y = 0; y < height; y++ ) {
             for ( int x = 0; x < width; x++ ) {
                   float grayPix = 0.0f;
                   float r = static_cast< float >(inputImage[(y * width) + x]);
                   float g = static_cast< float >(inputImage[(width * height) + (y * width) + x]);
                   float b = static_cast< float >(inputImage[(2 * width * height) + (y * width) + x]);

                   grayPix = (0.3f * r) + (0.59f * g) + (0.11f * b);
                   grayImageSeq[(y * width) + x] = static_cast< unsigned char > (grayPix);
              }
        }

    //compare sequential and cuda and print pixels that are wrong
    for (int i = 0; i < endBytes; i++)
    {
        if (grayImage[i] != grayImageSeq[i])
        cout << i << "-" << static_cast< unsigned int >(grayImage[i]) <<
                 " should be " << static_cast< unsigned int >(grayImageSeq[i]) << endl;
        }

    cudaFree(deviceImage);
    cudaFree(deviceResult);
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

I mention that I am highlighting for the initial image width * height * 3 because the original image is a CImg.

I am working on a GeForce GTX 480.