Re: GPUSort project

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:31:52AM +0200, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> >>>>> "MvO" == Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> MvO> Is this of practical use for run-of-the-mill video cards? --
> The article suggests that using the GPU is a win even on a $100 64MB
> card. The built-in card in most servers is probably not worth
> bothering with, but many servers offer PCI Express these days.

I would imagine that one of the more major benefits of modern video
cards (not cheap ones though) is the faster memory that they use.
GDDR3... :-)

My minimal research on the subject suggests that the memory is double
or triple that of regular DDR or DDR2 in terms of performance.

Cheers,
mark

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