Article: Impressions of Kepler
By: Alexko (a.delete@this.b.com), April 4, 2012 8:43 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
anon (no@email.com) on 4/4/12 wrote:
>[A]nd most importantly, nvidia has much MUCH more consistent performance across different applications.
>ATI is hugely faster on a couple of specific applications due to a couple of features
>of their base architecture, but nvidia is overall a big performance winner over most codes we use certainly.
This makes sense for previous (VLIW) AMD architectures, but do you still observe the same kind of thing on GCN? Assuming you've tried it, of course.
>[A]nd most importantly, nvidia has much MUCH more consistent performance across different applications.
>ATI is hugely faster on a couple of specific applications due to a couple of features
>of their base architecture, but nvidia is overall a big performance winner over most codes we use certainly.
This makes sense for previous (VLIW) AMD architectures, but do you still observe the same kind of thing on GCN? Assuming you've tried it, of course.
| Topic | Posted By | Date |
|---|---|---|
| First impressions of Nvidia's Kepler | David Kanter | 2012/03/22 06:00 PM |
| First impressions of Nvidia's Kepler | fellix | 2012/03/23 01:25 AM |
| First impressions of Nvidia's Kepler | Mike | 2012/03/23 08:24 AM |
| First impressions of Nvidia's Kepler | David Kanter | 2012/03/23 09:02 AM |
| First impressions of Nvidia's Kepler | Mike | 2012/03/23 09:34 AM |
| First impressions of Nvidia's Kepler | David Kanter | 2012/03/23 12:15 PM |
| First impressions of Nvidia's Kepler | anon | 2012/03/23 11:37 AM |
| I use ALUs | Mark Roulo | 2012/03/23 12:59 PM |
| I use ALUs | anon | 2012/03/23 02:07 PM |
| I use ALUs | Mark Roulo | 2012/03/23 03:12 PM |
| I use ALUs | anon | 2012/03/23 04:08 PM |
| Makes no sense... | EduardoS | 2012/03/23 05:30 PM |
| Makes no sense... | anon | 2012/03/23 06:14 PM |
| Makes no sense... | David Kanter | 2012/03/25 10:45 AM |
| Makes no sense... | fellix | 2012/03/24 05:41 AM |
| Comparing against the 560 | Cat | 2012/03/26 08:51 AM |
| Comparing against the 560 | David Kanter | 2012/03/26 09:24 AM |
| Shuffle Instruction | Martin | 2012/03/27 06:17 AM |
| Shuffle Instruction | David Kanter | 2012/03/27 08:47 AM |
| Shuffle Instruction | Martin | 2012/03/27 10:52 AM |
| .msi unarchiver? | hobold | 2012/03/28 10:20 AM |
| .msi unarchiver? | Joe | 2012/03/28 12:55 PM |
| .msi unarchiver? | Martin | 2012/03/29 12:53 AM |
| Shuffle Instruction | Rohit | 2012/03/27 12:04 PM |
| Workgroups vs. warps/wavefronts | Andrew McDonald | 2012/03/28 02:31 PM |
| Workgroups vs. warps/wavefronts | David Kanter | 2012/03/28 03:14 PM |
| Workgroups vs. warps/wavefronts | Rohit | 2012/03/28 08:53 PM |
| Workgroups vs. warps/wavefronts | Lee Howes | 2012/03/29 06:38 AM |
| Threads | David Kanter | 2012/04/09 11:36 AM |
| Fixed (NT) | David Kanter | 2012/04/09 11:37 AM |
| Heterogeneous GPUs | Oscar Eddington | 2012/03/28 07:41 PM |
| Heterogeneous GPUs | Gary M. | 2012/04/06 04:35 PM |
| Different shader cores | David Kanter | 2012/04/09 11:29 AM |
| Different shader cores | Tom | 2012/04/11 02:36 PM |
| Nope... | David Kanter | 2012/04/12 01:10 AM |
| Nope... | Tom | 2012/04/13 03:58 PM |
| Nope... | David Kanter | 2012/04/14 12:24 PM |
| Load balancing between Tesla and graphics boards | Tom | 2012/04/15 06:11 PM |
| Load balancing between Tesla and graphics boards | David Kanter | 2012/04/15 10:11 PM |
| Load balancing between Tesla and graphics boards | Anon | 2012/04/16 05:05 PM |
| Why isn't AMD hardware used for GPU computing? | Richard G. | 2012/04/03 07:39 PM |
| Why isn't AMD hardware used for GPU computing? | anon | 2012/04/04 03:11 AM |
| Why isn't AMD hardware used for GPU computing? | Soupdragon | 2012/04/04 05:24 AM |
| Why isn't AMD hardware used for GPU computing? | Groo | 2012/04/04 08:41 AM |
| Why isn't AMD hardware used for GPU computing? | Michael S | 2012/04/04 06:24 AM |
| Why isn't AMD hardware used for GPU computing? | Alexko | 2012/04/04 08:43 AM |
| Why isn't AMD hardware used for GPU computing? | EduardoS | 2012/04/04 03:37 PM |
| Why isn't AMD hardware used for GPU computing? | David Kanter | 2012/04/09 02:51 PM |
| Why isn't AMD hardware used for GPU computing? | Ricardo B | 2012/04/04 12:57 PM |
| Why isn't AMD hardware used for GPU computing? | Tom | 2012/04/04 05:36 PM |
| Why isn't AMD hardware used for GPU computing? | Brett | 2012/04/04 06:55 PM |
| Why isn't AMD hardware used for GPU computing? | David Kanter | 2012/04/09 02:55 PM |
| Predictions about Kepler | Russell Baker | 2012/04/18 02:09 PM |
| Predictions about Kepler | 0100010 | 2012/04/18 03:14 PM |
| Predictions about Kepler | EduardoS | 2012/04/18 03:38 PM |
| Predictions about Kepler | Anon | 2012/04/18 08:48 PM |
| Predictions about Kepler | EduardoS | 2012/04/19 03:03 PM |
| Predictions about Kepler | Meeps | 2012/04/19 03:39 PM |
| Predictions about Kepler | John P. | 2012/04/18 06:13 PM |
| Predictions about Kepler | Foo_ | 2012/04/19 12:15 PM |
| Predictions about Kepler | EduardoS | 2012/04/19 03:07 PM |
| Predictions about Kepler | Groo | 2012/04/19 09:13 AM |
| Predictions about Kepler | anon | 2012/04/19 03:26 PM |
| Predictions about Kepler | Groo | 2012/04/20 08:01 AM |
| Predictions about Kepler | Alex L. | 2012/04/20 03:41 PM |
| Predictions about Kepler | Anon | 2012/04/21 09:34 AM |
| Predictions about Kepler | mpx | 2012/04/21 11:23 PM |
| Predictions about Kepler | ac | 2012/04/22 01:49 AM |
