FPGAs vs. CPUs
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- 22 February 2004
- proceedings article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- p. 171-180
- https://doi.org/10.1145/968280.968305
Abstract
Moore's Law states that the number of transistors on a device doubles every two years; however, it is often (mis)quoted based on its impact on CPU performance. This important corollary of Moore's Law states that improved clock frequency plus improved architecture yields a doubling of CPU performance every 18 months. This paper examines the impact of Moore's Law on the peak floating-point performance of FPGAs. Performance trends for individual operations are analyzed as well as the performance trend of a common instruction mix (multiply accumulate). The important result is that peak FPGA floating-point performance is growing significantly faster than peak floating-point performance for a CPU.Keywords
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