AMD Compute and Texture Fetch

Article: Predicting AMD and Nvidia GPU Performance
By: David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com), April 22, 2011 9:17 pm
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anon (anon@anon.com) on 4/22/11 wrote:
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>David Kanter (dkanter@realworldtech.com) on 4/22/11 wrote:
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>>EduardoS (no@spam.com) on 4/22/11 wrote:
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>>>David Kanter (dkanter@realworldtech.com) on 4/21/11 wrote:
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>>>>My understanding (http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT121410213827&p=7)
>>>>is that on Cayman and Cypress, the ALUs are used for address calculations.
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>>>As CPUs use ALUs for more complex address calculations but >we don't call "address
>>>calculations" as "texture fetch", do we?
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>>I don't see your point. Some uarchs have dedicated AGUs (e.g. most x86), some
>>do not (e.g. IBM, IA64).
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>IBM doesn't have dedicated AGUs?!? That's a new one.

Yeah, you're right. I don't know what I was thinking.

>IIRC only IA64 doesn't have AGUs as it has braindead >simple addressing ideal for regular data/array access.

Register indirect with post-increment? I guess it's simpler than displacement...

David
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