With the launch of Kaveri, some people have been wondering if the platform is suitable for HPC applications. Floating point peak performance of the CPU and GPU on both fp32 and fp64 datatypes is one of the considerations. At launch time, we were not clear on the fp64 performance of Kaveri's GPU but now we have official confirmation from AMD that it is 1/16th the rate of fp32 (similar to most GCN based GPUs except the flagships) and we have verified this on our 7850K by running FlopsCL. I am taking this opportunity to summarize the info about Kaveri, Trinity, Llano and Intel's competing platforms Haswell and Ivy Bridge on both the CPU and GPU side. We provide a per-cycle estimate...
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15 by Jarred Walton on 1/10/2014
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Intel CES 2014 Live Blog
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19 by Ian Cutress on 1/5/2014
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16 by Ian Cutress on 1/3/2014
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102 by Ganesh T S on 1/3/2014
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75 by Ian Cutress on 1/2/2014
Thunderbolt 2 certified on GIGABYTE Z87X-UD7 TH
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23 by Ian Cutress on 12/14/2013
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24 by Ian Cutress on 12/2/2013
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9 by Ian Cutress on 11/27/2013
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74 by Ganesh T S on 11/25/2013
Best Desktop CPUs: Holiday 2013
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24 by Ian Cutress on 11/25/2013
Fall 2013 Supercomputer Rankings Released; Achieving Max Efficiency With Oil
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28 by Ryan Smith on 11/22/2013
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62 by Ian Cutress on 11/22/2013
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28 by Jarred Walton on 11/21/2013
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38 by Ian Cutress on 11/20/2013
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