Introducing Energy Efficiency into Graphics Processors

  • Authors:
  • B. V. N. Silpa;Preeti Ranjan Panda

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ISED '10 Proceedings of the 2010 International Symposium on Electronic System Design
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Graphics processor (GPU) architectures have evolved rapidly in recent years with increasing performance demanded by 3D graphics applications such as games. However, challenges exist in integrating complex GPUs into mobile devices because of power and energy constraints, motivating the need for energy efficiency in GPUs. While a significant amount of power optimisation research effort has concentrated on the CPU system, GPU power efficiency is a relatively new and important area because the power consumed by GPUs is similar in magnitude to CPU power. Power and energy efficiency can be introduced into GPUs at many different levels.