Birk M., Balzer M., Ruiter N., Becker J.
in 2012 International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs, ReConFig 2012 (2012), 6416735. DOI:10.1109/ReConFig.2012.6416735
Abstract
With the rise of heterogeneous computing architectures, application developers are confronted with a multitude of hardware platforms and the challenge of identifying the most suitable processing platform for their application. Strong competitors for the acceleration of 3D Ultrasound Computer Tomography, a medical imaging method for early breast cancer diagnosis, are GPU and FPGA devices. In this work, we evaluate processing performance and efficiency metrics for current FPGA and GPU devices. We compare top-notch devices from the 40 nm generation as well as FPGA and GPU devices, which draw the same amount of power. For our two benchmark algorithms, the results show that if power consumption is not considered the GPU and the FPGA give both, a similar processing performance and processing efficiency per transistor. However, if the power budget is limited to a similar value, the FPGA performs between six and eight times better than the GPU. © 2012 IEEE.
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