By: SHK (nomail.delete@this.mail.com), July 25, 2012 2:31 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com) on July 25, 2012 1:37 am wrote:
> New computational efficiency data shows GPUs with a clear edge over CPUs, but
> the gap is narrowing as CPUs adopt wide vectors (e.g. AVX). Surprisingly, a
> throughput CPU is the most energy efficient processor, offering hope for future
> architectures. Our data also shows some advantages of AMD's Bulldozer, and the
> overhead associated with highly scalable server CPUs.
>
> Comments and feedback
> welcome!
>
> David
Very interesting as always, on page 2 there's a little typo, i think you mean POWER7 not POWER8 (as the graph indicates).
> New computational efficiency data shows GPUs with a clear edge over CPUs, but
> the gap is narrowing as CPUs adopt wide vectors (e.g. AVX). Surprisingly, a
> throughput CPU is the most energy efficient processor, offering hope for future
> architectures. Our data also shows some advantages of AMD's Bulldozer, and the
> overhead associated with highly scalable server CPUs.
>
> Comments and feedback
> welcome!
>
> David
Very interesting as always, on page 2 there's a little typo, i think you mean POWER7 not POWER8 (as the graph indicates).
