By: aaron spink (aaronspink.delete@this.notearthlink.net), July 27, 2012 7:33 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
jp (jipe4153.delete@this.gmail.com) on July 27, 2012 3:55 pm wrote:
>
> Local memory in OpenCL speak is what is known as
> shared memory in CUDA, which can be thought of as a fast on-chip user managed
> cache.
>
> With PCIe 3.0 cards the max PCI express bandwidth is now 16
> GB/s.
>
Another reason to not like GPUs, they cannot use already well established terms. My personal favorite is that Nvidia cannot agree with Nvidia how many cores a 2090 has!
Global node bandwidth is currently at 51.2 for trailing gen. 16 is a small fraction of that.
>
> Local memory in OpenCL speak is what is known as
> shared memory in CUDA, which can be thought of as a fast on-chip user managed
> cache.
>
> With PCIe 3.0 cards the max PCI express bandwidth is now 16
> GB/s.
>
Another reason to not like GPUs, they cannot use already well established terms. My personal favorite is that Nvidia cannot agree with Nvidia how many cores a 2090 has!
Global node bandwidth is currently at 51.2 for trailing gen. 16 is a small fraction of that.
