Evolution of the NVIDIA GPU Architecture

Relation to Other Architectures∗ SMT∗ Many smaller cores, with less functionality, to compute results∗ Each core has a hardware context for a thread that can beswitched out∗ Vector Processors∗ Computation of results in parallel that could be donesequentially by a CPU∗ Ability to access large chunks of data from memory at a giventime∗ Banks of shared memory ‐ could lead to bank conflicts∗ Digital Signal Processors∗ As with DSP algorithms, many applications could also use theMAC elements; these are built into the GPU by design