gpgpu and core counts

Article: Predicting AMD and Nvidia GPU Performance
By: Heikki Kultala (hkultala.delete@this.iki.NOSPAM.fi), April 20, 2011 7:24 pm
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EduardoS (no@spam.com) on 4/20/11 wrote:
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>Heikki Kultala (hkultala@iki.NOSPAM.fi) on 4/20/11 wrote:
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>>If memory operation is being handled, no ALU operations can execute at same time
>>on ATI.
>
>No, memory operations are executed on a different part of the chip,

yes

> it's like a memory operations only core, the ALUs are free to execute instructions of other threads in this time.

.. but no, at least with texture fetches.

Texture fetches consume the execution slots of the instruction word, ALU operations cannot be started at same cycle.







>
>>But if the code does not have any ILP, only parallelism between work items, then
>>3/4 or those ATI ALU's are idling. This practically means badly optimized code.
>
>Do 2 to 4 work itens per lane and you will find ILP, it's SIMD after all, right?
>Just sad AMD compiler can't do this (and a lot fo other important things) alone...
>
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