Understanding throughput-oriented architectures

  • Authors:
  • Michael Garland;David B. Kirk

  • Affiliations:
  • NVIDIA Research, Santa Clara, CA;NVIDIA Research, Santa Clara, CA

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

For workloads with abundant parallelism, GPUs deliver higher peak computational throughput than latency-oriented CPUs.