CUDA vs CPU GFLOP/s

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Does anyone know where I can find a more up to date version of this chart?
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EDIT: Fixed image

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Here you go:

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Is this link public? I can’t view it.

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Sorry about that - it should work now. I literally “updated” the chart in mspaint. It would be simple enough to replot the points in Excel, but I don’t recommend anyone use this in a presentation since published GFLOP/s numbers for CPUs are for double precision operations and the Nvidia GPU figures are for single precision. Also, the first five CPU points are not even labeled. I suspect that Nvidia deliberately decided not to update this graph.

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Actually, the beta CUDA 3.1 Programming Guide has a much improved version of this figure. It is up-to-date with current CPU and GPU releases, and splits the data into four curves, showing single and double precision performance separately.

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Thanks! (I updated my previous post). There is still a lot to question and it appears that Nvidia was challenged to come up with a slide comparing CPU and GPU performance that was both simple and (relatively) accurate. The decision to plot double precision performance with only the Tesla products is certainly interesting.

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And why does the dark green line for “NVIDIA GPU Double Precision” seem to go all the way back to at least June 2004? Shouldn’t it start at Tesla C1060?

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I believe it is sitting at zero for those points.

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They should have logged the graph I think :unsure: