Computer Organization and Design MIPS Edition, Fifth Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)
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Chapter 6, Problem 6.14.2E

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Performance analysis of GPU hardware:

GPU stands for Graphic Processing unit and is a programmable logic chip processor specialized for display functions.

GPUs have far more processor cores than CPUs, but because each GPU core runs significantly slower than a CPU core and do not have the features needed for modern operating systems, they are not appropriate for performing most of the processing in everyday computing.

One of the performance analysis tools that are used for performance analysis of GPU hardware is NVIDIA Sight Systems...

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