GPU vs. CPU Comparison over the last years Options

[dast]

We prepared a comparison sheet of theoretical performance (number of transistors, peak performance, memory bandwidth) of CPUs and GPUs over the last 6 years.

Since it was quite an effort to collect all the data, we would like to share our results with you.

Maybe you have some comments to extend or correct it ...

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Year || GPU-Type                  | Trans.    |  Peak Perf. | Memory Band. || CPU-Type                     | Trans.   | Peak Perf. | Memory Band.
-----++---------------------------+-----------+-------------+--------------++------------------------------+----------+------------+-------------
2004 || NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra |  222 Mio. |   53 GFLOPS |  35.2 GB/sec || Intel Pentium 4 570 (3.8GHz) | 125 Mio. |  15 GFLOPS |   6.4 GB/sec
2005 || NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX   |  302 Mio. |  165 GFLOPS |  51.2 GB/sec || AMD Athlon X2 4800+          | 233 Mio. |  19 GFLOPS |   6.4 GB/sec
2006 || NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX   |  681 Mio. |  518 GFLOPS |  86.4 GB/sec || Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700  | 582 Mio. |  85 GFLOPS |  12.8 GB/sec
2007 || NVIDIA Geforce 8800 Ultra |  681 Mio. |  576 GFLOPS | 103.7 GB/sec || Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650  | 820 Mio. |  96 GFLOPS |  21.3 GB/sec
2008 || NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280    | 1400 Mio. |  933 GFLOPS | 113.3 GB/sec || Intel Core i7-965 XE         | 731 Mio. | 102 GFLOPS |  25.6 GB/sec
2009 || AMD Radeon HD 5870        | 2150 Mio. | 2720 GFLOPS | 153.6 GB/sec || Intel Core i7-975 XE         | 731 Mio. | 106 GFLOPS |  25.6 GB/sec

This post has been edited by dast: Nov 6 2009, 10:41 AM

[SPWorley]

These kinds of lists are always useful! I always keep trying to compare different cards, often to see if some cheapo old card can still perform fast enough for an algorithm or if I need to tell a client to update their GPU.

There's two more detailed lists here for NVIDIA and ATI cards.