Fermi: NVIDIA’s Next-Generation CUDA Compute Architecture
Date
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9/1/2009
Graphics processing units (GPUs) are the most effective parallel processors used today. GPUs greatly outpace CPUs in arithmetic throughput and memory bandwidth, making them the ideal processor to accelerate a variety of data parallel applications.
The Fermi architecture represents a new direction for NVIDIA. Far from being merely the successor to GT200, Fermi is the outcome of a radical rethinking of the role, purpose, and capability of the GPU. With its combination of groundbreaking performance, functionality and programmability, the Fermi architecture represents the next revolution in GPU computing.