[Bf-cycles] 3 way cuda performance comparison on sm_21 and sm_20 cards

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

That's a very interesting and nice presented test, thanks!
I'll leave conclusions to the experts though :)

-Ton-

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On 14 Jun, 2013, at 18:42, Jürgen Herrmann wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I did extensive tests on windows with different cuda toolkits and different builds (VS 2008, 2012 and MinGW) lately to see if I can find a reason why Cycles is so much slower on Windows/MSVC builds.
> My results can be reviewed here : http://download.shadowrom.de/Benchmark.pdf
> We could speed up CUDA performance on all OS if we use nvcc compiler optimization switches and some optimization in the cuda kernel code.
>  
> I’ve also tried to profile cycles with “Very Sleepy” on Windows MSVC builds too. I am still experimenting on how to speed up the time critical parts for M$ compilers …
>  
> /Jürgen
>  
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