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Difference between CUDA and OpenCL 2010
« on: April 23, 2010, 10:49:46 AM »
CUDA term                                       OpenCL term
GPU                                               Device                   
Multiprocessor                               Compute Unit
Scalar core                               Processing element
Global memory                               Global memory
Shared (per-block) memory               Local memory
Local memory (automatic, or local)       Private memory
kernel                                       program
block                                            work-group
thread                                          work item

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On NVidia hardware, OpenCL is up to 10% slower (see Matt Harvey’s presentation); this is mainly because OpenCL is implemented on top of CUDA-architecture (this shouldn’t be a reason, but to say NVidia has put more energy in CUDA is just a wild guess also). On ATI 4000-series OpenCL is just slow, but gives very comparable to NVidia if compared to the 5000-series.

Link: http://www.streamcomputing.nl/blog/2010-04-22/difference-between-cuda-and-opencl

Also: http://www.geeks3d.com/20100115/gpu-computing-geforce-and-radeon-opencl-test-part-1/
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