Re:The Lack of Open Tooling for FPGAs
by TD-Linux on Monday April 20, 2015 @09:03PM
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FPGAs are certainly not known for their low power consumption. Especially for something like an OpenCL workload, you'd probably do much better with a vector processor architecture, like on GPUs.
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Hmm? FPGAs, in most cases, consume significantly less power than GPUs, unless GPU technology has caught up in the past year or so.
This is the opposite of my experience (assuming the same performance level). Though I consider FPGAs and GPUs mostly cut out for vastly different purposes. I unfortunately can't find a good reference to back this up because very few people do FPGA to GPU comparisons with anything more than a trivial FIR filter or FFT.