From 702571024ca6893e62ffc4f36ff78873b55ff61c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: worktycho Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 14:02:54 +0100 Subject: Expanded GPU section --- docs/Generator.html | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs/Generator.html') diff --git a/docs/Generator.html b/docs/Generator.html index 16aaf68c8..5def63e3b 100644 --- a/docs/Generator.html +++ b/docs/Generator.html @@ -404,6 +404,7 @@ and use the layout corresponding to the threshold:

Much of the terain genertion consists of doing the same thing for every single column or block in a chunk. This sort of computation is much faster on a GPU as GPUs are massively parallel. High end GPUs can execute up to 30,000 threads simultaneously, which would allow them to generate every block in half a chunk in parallel or every column -in over 100 chunks in parallel.

+in over 100 chunks in parallel. A naive comparison suggests a 800MHz a GPU with 15,000 threads can execute parallel +code 250 times faster than a 3GHz CPU with 128 bit SIMD. Obviously we want to harness that power.

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